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1
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conceot based on a chance selection of musical materials bynthe composer, performer or both

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indeterminacy/aleotory/chance music

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2
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A gliding speech-song developed by Schoenberg

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sperechstimme / sprechgesang

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3
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  1. “Father of Electronic Music”
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Edgard Varese

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4
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A characteristic of Impressionistic music in which two or more melodies move simultaneously in the same direction and at the same intervals

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Parallelism

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5
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The wide leaps or intervals from one note to the next

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Disjunct progressions

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6
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Founder of musical Impressionism

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Claude Debussy

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7
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A complex electronic instrument that contains oscillators and can control the properties of sound

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analog synthesisee

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8
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Chords having fifths and octaves but without thirds

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Open chords

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9
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Music based on serial manipulation of the twelve chromatic pitches

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twelve tone system

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10
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Intervals less than a semitone

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microtones

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11
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No underlying key

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atonality

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12
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German composer of tape music

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

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13
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American composer of aleatory music

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John Cage

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14
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Dorian, Phrygian, and Mixolydian

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church modes

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15
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Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21

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Arnold Schoenborg

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16
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The first computer to play music

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CSIRAC

17
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Strategie

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Yannis Xanakis

18
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Projection II

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Morton Feldman

19
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Analog-to-digital conversion

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a sampling

20
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chords in an interval of fourthe

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quartal harmony

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