Modernism Flashcards
Modernism viewed as…
continued rejection of Industrial Revolution beginning in the Romantic era.
Modernism broke away from Romantism and…
realism, Enlightenment ideals, and religious belief.
sprechstimme
technique descended from recitative in which speech-rhythm is privileged and pitches are approximate (i.e. Mondestrunken)
neoclassical
return to older forms
Neoclassicism was strictly about…
form, not harmony/melody.
Musical modernism (ca. 1910-1930) was a reflection of…
growing unease with societal structures.
Tonality sometimes viewed like…
realistic representation in art (too easy/bourgeois).
Vague atonality, according to Schoenberg, was replaced by…
new 12-tone system.
12-tone technique was used…
in Europe prior to WWII and after in the US.
The Work Progress Administration (WPA) passed under FDR funded…
music education and ethnomusicology.
Prior to WWII, jazz…
began to influence many classical composers.
New media such as…
radio and recorded sound became widespread.
New technology influenced…
timbre and rhythm (i.e. Poeme electronique).
By 1960, Western art music and pop music were…
farther apart than ever before.
Around 1960, successful composers exhibited two main traits:
1) academic pedigree
2) accessibility
