Chapter 55: War is Hell: Berg and Expressionist Opera Flashcards
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Serialism
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Method of composition in which various musical elements (pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre) may be ordered in a fixed series. (page 332)
2
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Tone Row
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An arrangement of the twelve chromatic pitches that serves as the basis of a twelve-tone piece. (page 332)
3
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Transposition
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The shifting of a piece of music to a different pitch level. (page 333)
4
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Inversion
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Mirror or upside-down image of a melody or pattern, found in fugues and twelve-tone compositions. (page 333)
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Retrograde
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Backward statement of a melody. (page 333)
6
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Retrograde Inversion
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Mirror image of the backward statement of a melody. (page 333)
