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Arnold Schoenberg

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Austrian, Verklärte Nacht/Moses und Aron/Pierrot lunaire

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Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”)

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Arnold Schoenberg, String sextet

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developing variation

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A technique where variations are produced through the development of existing material at the same time, Arnold Schoenberg

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atonality

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Music that lacks a tonal center or key, Arnold Schoenberg

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twelve-tone method

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A technique where all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are used with equal frequency and importance while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, Arnold Schoenberg

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Moses und Aron

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Arnold Schoenberg, Opera

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Pierrot lunaire

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Arnold Schoenberg/Giraud, Pierrot ensemble work

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expressionism

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A style that seeks to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality, often distorting the world radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas, Arnold Schoenberg

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Albert Giraud

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Belgian poet, Pierrot lunaire

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Sprechstimme

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A technique for voice that approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following the notated rhythm exactly, Arnold Schoenberg

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row/series

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The twelve pitch-classes of the chromatic scale arranged in an order chosen by the composer and made to produce a particular sequence of intervals, Arnold Schoenberg

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retrograde

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The reverse of a musical line, e.g. A Bb F# D -> D F# Bb A, Arnold Schoenberg

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tetrachord

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Any group of four consecutive notes from a row/series, Arnold Schoenberg

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hexachord

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Any group of six consecutive notes from a row/series, Arnold Schoenberg

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Alban Berg

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Austrian, Wozzeck/Lulu

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Wozzeck

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Alban Berg/Büchner, Opera

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Georg Büchner

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German dramatist and writer, Wozzeck

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Lulu

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Alban Berg, Opera

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Anton Webern

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Austrian, Symphony, op. 21

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Symphony, op. 21

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Anton Webern, Symphony

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Klangfarbenmelodie (“Tone-color melody”)

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A musical technique that involves splitting a musical line or melody between several instruments thereby adding color (tone) and texture to the melodic line, Anton Webern

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Igor Stravinsky

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Russian, The Firebird/Petrushka/The Rite of Spring/L’histoire du soldat/Symphony of Psalms/Agon/The Rake’s Progress/Epitaphium

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Russian art critic, founded the Ballets Russes and commissioned Stravinsky to write The Firebird/Petrushka/The Rite of Spring

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Ballets Russes

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Parisian ballet company, founded by Sergei Diaghilev and where Stravinsky wrote The Firebird/Petrushka/The Rite of Spring

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The Firebird

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Igor Stravinsky, Ballet

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Petrushka

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Igor Stravinsky, Ballet

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Le Sacre du printemps (“The Rite of Spring”)

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Igor Stravinsky, Ballet

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L’histoire du soldat (“The Soldier’s Tale”)

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Igor Stravinsky, Small ensemble work

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Symphony of Psalms

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Igor Stravinsky, Symphony

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Agon

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Igor Stravinsky/Balanchine, Ballet

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George Balanchine

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American ballet choreographer, founded the New York City Ballet and collaborated closely with Stravinsky, e.g. Agon

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The Rake’s Progress

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Igor Stravinsky, Opera

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Epitaphium

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Igor Stravinsky, Chamber work

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Poetics of Music

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A book written by Stravinsky containing ideas about his artistic process and accounts of his experiences, Igor Stravinsky

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Béla Bartók

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Hungarian, Bluebeard’s Castle/The Miraculous Mandarin/Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta/Mikrokosmos

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Zoltán Kodály

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Hungarian, Háry János

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Háry János

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Zoltán Kodály, Opera

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Bluebeard’s Castle

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Béla Bartók, Opera

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The Miraculous Mandarin

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Béla Bartók, Ballet

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Concerto for Orchestra

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Béla Bartók, Concerto

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Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

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Béla Bartók, Orchestral work

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Mikrokosmos

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Béla Bartók, Piano works in volumes

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“The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music”

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A journal article written by Bartók

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