Module 15

Question 1

Experimental music

Answer 1

• Lack of predictability and reliance on unexpected or untraditional techniques

Question 2

Found Instruments

Answer 2

- Object that is used to create music that is not made for the purpose
~Bicycle bell
~Baseball bat
~Trash can
~Pots and pans
~Breaking glass in a specific rhythm

Question 3

Prepared instrument

Answer 3

-Instrument that has been altered to change its sounds

Question 4

Prepared piano

Answer 4

-Piano with objects placed between the strings to alter the sounds

Question 5

Prepared guitar

Answer 5

-Objects placed under, over, or between strings and frets to change the sound

Question 6

Atonal music

Answer 6

• A musical composition that does not have tonal center or key signature
• Is still based off the chromatic scale

Question 7

Tones

Answer 7

-Musical notes

~There are twelve tones a half step higher or lower that the one before or after

Question 8

Chromatic scale

Answer 8

-Entire range of tones

Question 9

Key

Answer 9

-The range of notes used around that tone

Question 10

Tonal

Answer 10

-It has a key signature

Question 11

Arnold Schoenberg

Answer 11

• Early 20th century Austrian composer

- His most famous form of creating atonal music is called twelve-tone technique

Question 12

Twelve-tone technique

Answer 12

-Way to ensure that every tone in the chromatic scale was used equally so no single tone could become central and the music never developed a key