Comprehensive Set 2 Flashcards
New Orleans Jazz
Spanning from 1895-1927, this style of jazz style of jazz in its development is associated with Charles Bolden. The development of this was also connected to the community of life in the city and became a centerpiece for Mardi Gras.
Parlor Ballad
A type of music which was intended to be performed in parlors of houses. They were usually sung by amateur singers and pianists. Excerpts from minstrel shows that were arranged for voice and keyboard were particularly popular.
The Second New England School
The name given to composers who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries. They were based around Boston and is considered to be the pivotal in the development of the American Classical Idiom. George Chadwick, Amy Beach and Edward MacDowell are three members of the school.
Anti Slavery Songs
These songs were song that were sung by African American people during the times of slavery. They were usually sung as they worked together in the fields or on rail roads to keep morale up amongst themselves.
Pluralism
The idea of missing different musical styles and is often described in contemporary music. It rejects the sole emphasis of the internal relationships between a single work of music in favor of the theory that uses both music formalism as well as historical, cultural and aesthetic context.
Ircam
Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics/Music. This is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound. This also coincided with the rise of debates about modernism and postmodernism in the culture and the arts.
Acousmatic Music
Music that is created prior to the performance and is played from a fixed source during the actual performance. It is largely created in a studio where pre-recorded sounds from any environment are chosen by a composer and manipulated to produce desired results. Steve Reich “Come Out” is an example of acousmatic music.
Mystic Chord
This is a six note chord and its associated scale or pitch collection that serves as the harmonic and melodic basis for some of the later pieces by Alexander Scriabin. He did not use the chord directly but derived material from its transpositions.
Sound Mass
This is the result of compositional techniques in which the importance of individual pitches is minimized in preference for texture, timbre, and dynamics. The sound mass is usually derived of a texture of many notes that are clustered together, forming a mass of sound. Penderecki’s “Thredony for the Victims of Hiroshima” is an example of the use of a sound mass.
Mobile Forms
A form of aleatory music where the order of events is flexible. Players may be asked to choose the order on the spur of the moment, or be given instructions from which to create different permutations. TV Koln by John Cage is an example of this.
Metric Modulation
This is the change in pulse and or pulse grouping which is derived from a note value or grouping heard before the change. These may include changes in time signature across an unchanging tempo but it applies more specifically to shifts from one time signature to another.
Epic Theatre
This is a theatrical movement that arose in the early to mid 20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners that responded to political theatre. It is not meant to refer to the scale of the work but rather to the form that it takes. Many of the forms are in response to Richard Wagners Gesamtkunstwerk.
