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Atonality

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Total absence of any tonal centre (unresolved dissonances)

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Polyrhythm

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Many rhythms

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Polytonality

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Simultaneous use of 2+ tonal centres

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Modal scales

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Scales where the pattern of whole steps and half steps is different from conventional +/- scales

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Choreography

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Designing dance steps in ballet

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Stravinsky’s birthplace

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Russia

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Stravinsky’s birth and death years

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1882 - 1971

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Stravinsky’s education

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Law

Music

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Instruments Stravinsky played

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Piano

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Stravinsky’s employment

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Harvard and University of Southern California

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Genres Stravinsky cultivated

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Neo-classical

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Hallmarks of stravinsky’s style

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Primitave style

Dissonant harmony

Twelve tone method

Sparse textures

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13
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Robert Craft

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Produced and wrote books, and recorded all stravinsky’s music

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Changing meter

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Shift of metrical groupings (changed through time signature)

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Folk Song

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Songs of unknown authorship

Passed down orally

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Petrushka chord

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Dissonant poly chord

C major F# major arpeggio

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Primitivism

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Created through rhythm

Strong accents

Heavy syncopation

Poly rhythm

Expanded percussion

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18
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Louie’s birthplace

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Canada

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Louie’s birth year

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1949

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Louie’s education

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Psychology

Composition

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Instruments Louie plays

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Piano

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Louie’s employment

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College teacher

Founding director of espirit orchestra

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Genres Louie cultivated

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Pan-ethnic perspective

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Hallmarks of Louie’s style

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Expression and communication

Musical humour

Harmonic language

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Espirit Orchestra

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Louie founded this

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Arch form

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Symmetrical

Repetition in reverse order

ABCBA

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Berceuse

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Lullaby

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Senza misura

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“Without measure”

Freely, no strict time

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Debussy’s birthplace

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France

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Debussy’s birth and death years

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1862 - 1918

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Debussy’s education

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Paris conservatoire

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Instrument Debussy played

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Piano

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Debussy’s employment

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Varied career as a pianist

Piano teacher for Nadezhda Von Meck’s family

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Genres Debussy cultivated

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Set poetry of symbolist poets

Experimented with different approaches to grammar and syntax

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Hallmarks of Debussy’s style

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Parallel chord streams

Open fifths and octaves

Varied use of rhythms

Mythical themes

Witty and satirical

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Stéphane Mallarmé

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Wrote a pastoral poem that was the inspiration for L’apres midi d’un faune

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Antique Cymbals

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Finger cymbals

Gentle ringing sound

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Glissando

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“To slide”

A quick strumming of all the strings with a broad sweeping hand movement

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Impressionism

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Employs expanded harmonic vocabulary

Innovative orchestral colours

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Symbolism

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French literary moment

Authors sought to suggest subject matter rather than depict it

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Stephen Sondheim

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Worked on West Side Story with Bernstein

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Cha-Cha

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Cuban dance

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Hemiola

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2 groups of 3 beats are replaced by 3 groups of 2 beats

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Tritone

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Interval of augmented fourth or finished fifth

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Verse-chord structure

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Simon song structure

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Mambo

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Afro-Cuban

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Rhythmic ostinatos

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