Chapter 67-70 Vocabulary

Question 1

Neo-Romanticism

Answer 1

A contemporary style of music that employs the rich harmonic language and other elements of Romantic and post-Romantic composers.

Question 2

Underscoring

Answer 2

A technique used in films in which the music comes from an unseen source.

Question 3

Source Music

Answer 3

A film technique in which music comes from a logical source within the film and functions as part of the story.

Question 4

Leitmotif

Answer 4

“Leading motive,” or basic recurring theme, representing a person, object, or idea; widely used in Wagner’s music dramas.

Question 5

Spiritual, or holy, minimalism

Answer 5

Contemporary musical style related to minimalism, characterized by a weak pulse and long chains of lush progression– either tonal or modal. Also holy minimalism.

Question 6

Microtones

Answer 6

Musical interval smaller than a semitone (a half step), prevalent in some non-Western music and some twentieth-century music.

Question 7

Drone

Answer 7

The sustained sounding of one or several pitches for harmonic support, a common feature o some folk music.