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Module 4 Flashcards

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Atonal

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Music that rejects the framework of key

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Sprechstimme

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Vocal style in which the vocal melody is spoken rather than sung

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Tone Row

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  • Arrangement of the twelve chromatic pitches
  • Basis of a twelve-tone piece
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Blue Note

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A bent pitch (note)

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Twelve-Bar Blues Form

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Musical structure based on a repeated harmonic pattern, twelve measures in length: I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-IV-I-I

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Neo-Classical

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A 20th century musical style that combined elements of Classical and Baroque music with modern trends

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Process Music

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A compositional style in which a composer selects a simple musical idea and repeats it over and over, as it’s gradually changed or elaborated upon

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Minimalism

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Contemporary musical style featuring the repetition of short melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with little variations

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Backbeat

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The 2nd and 4th beats in a 4-beat measure of music. Popular in rock-and-roll and related genres.

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Diegetic (Source) Music

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Music that is part of the fictional world of a film or play heard by or performed by the characters

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Incidental Music

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Music performed in a film but not heard by the characters

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12
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Where was Tin Pan Alley located?

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New York City

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Why was Tin Pan Alley important?

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Area where most music publishers were located in early 20th century

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Characteristics of 20th century Art Music

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  • New approaches toward tonality
  • Constant shifting meter
  • More emphasis on winds and percussion
  • Smaller orchestras
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Who invented the twelve-tone compositional technique?

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Arnold Schoenberg

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What is the twelve-tone compositional technique?

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  • Involved all twelve notes of the chromatic scale
  • Revolutionized music composition
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When did the Rite of Spring Open?

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  • Paris 1913
  • Near riot
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What are the characteristics of the Rite of Spring?

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  • Dissonances
  • Polyrhythms
  • Polytonality
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What instrument do you hear first in the Rite of Spring?

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Bassoon in the upper register

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Was the Rite of Spring considered a revolutionary work in music?

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Yes

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Where is the home of the Ballet Russe?

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Paris, France

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Which American popular music styles have their roots in African American music?

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  • Ragtime
  • Blues
  • Jazz
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Characteristics of Delta Blues

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A man and his guitar

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Characteristics of Classic Blues

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A female singer fronting a band of musicians

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Characteristics of Urban Blues

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  • Northern cities
  • Employed amplified instruments (electric guitar)
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How many lines in a blues verse?

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3

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The word “blues” can refer to two different things

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  • Genre of music
  • A form of music that follow a 12 bar chord progression using the I, IV, & V chords
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The birthplace of Jazz

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New Orleans

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Characteristics of New Orleans Jazz

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  • Combined elements of ragtime and blues
  • Improvisation
  • Polyphonic
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Why was New Orleans important to the emergence of Jazz?

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  • Culturally diverse city
  • Very Musical city
  • It was a city in which Jim Crow laws took affect later than other places in the South
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Who is Louis Armstrong?

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  • Trumpet player and singer of New Orleans Jazz
  • Important force is early jazz styles
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Who is Billy Holiday?

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  • Female “blues” singer
  • 1st African American singer to record with white musicians
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Characteristics of Bebop Jazz

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  • Fast tempos
  • Smaller groups of musicians
  • Lots of improvisation
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Important Bepop performers

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  • Charlie Parker
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Thelonious Monk
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Miles Davis

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Principal exponent of Cool Jazz

36
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George Gershwin

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Merged classical and jazz traditions

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Rhapsody in Blue Characteristics

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  • Premiered in 1924
  • “An Experiment in Modern Music” concert
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William Grant Still

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  • First African American composer to have a symphony performed by a major american orchestra
  • “The African American Symphony”
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Harlem Renaissance

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The literary, artistic, and sociological movement that highlighted African American intellectual life in the 1920s and 1930s

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Florence Price “Symphony No. 1 in E Minor” Characteristics

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  • Pentatonic scale
  • African American dance styles (3rd movement)
  • Utilizes blues notes
  • Was not immediately accepted by orchestra or public
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Charles Ives

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Music not popular during his lifetime

42
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Did Charles Ives’ music reflect his roots in New England?

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Yes

43
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What was Charles Ives’ day job?

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Insurance Executive

44
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Who was Aaron Copland’s composition teacher?

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Nadia Boulanger

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What was the genre of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring?

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Ballet

46
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Characteristics of Appalachian Spring

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  • Composed for Martha Graham
  • Quotes early American tune “Simple Gifts”
47
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Two composers who collected over 2,000 songs and dances representing Eastern European cultures

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  • Bela Bartok
  • Zoltan Kodaly
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Bela Bartok

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Moved to New York in 1940 because he did not like the alliance between the Hungarian government and Nazi Germany leading up to the 2nd World War

49
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How many movements is Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra?

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5

50
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American composers who were influenced by Far Eastern Philosophy

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  • John Cage
  • Henry Cowell
  • Harry Partch
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John Cage

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  • Influenced by Far Eastern Philosophy (especially the gamelan from Java)
  • Invented the Prepared Piano
  • 4’33”
  • Sonatas and Interludes
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Characteristics of 4’33”

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  • Contains no musical content
  • Can be performed by any one on any instrument
53
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Characteristics of Sonatas and Interludes

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Evokes the sound of the Javanese gamelan

54
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Steve Reich

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  • Minimalist composer
  • Influenced by polyrhythms of West Africa
  • Phase music
55
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When was phase music invented?

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During World War 2

56
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Leonard Bernstein

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  • Conducted the New York Philharmonic
  • Composed the music for West Side Story
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Characteristic of West Side Story

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Modern Romeo and Juliet

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Jennifer Higdon

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  • American neo-Romantic composer
  • Blue Cathedral
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Characteristic of Blue Cathedral

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Orchestral Tone Poem

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Movie Music can

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  • Reflect the emotions of a given scene
  • Help create a sense of place and time
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Rock & Roll

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  • Emerged in the 1950s
  • Origins in Rhythm and Blues, Country-western, pop, and gospel
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Important figures of Rock & Roll

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  • Chuck Berry
  • Elvis Presley
  • Bill Haley
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
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The Rite of Spring

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  • Stravinsky
  • Ballet
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Take the A Train

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  • Duke Ellington
  • Big Band Jazz
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Hotter than That

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  • Louis Armstrong
  • New Orleans Jazz
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Stompin’ at the Savoy

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  • Chick Webb
  • Swing Jazz
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Suite for Violin and Piano, Mvt. III

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  • William Grant Still
  • Suite
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Country Band March

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  • Charles Ives
  • March (for winds)
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In C*

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  • Terry Riley
  • Minimalism
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Imperial March

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  • John Williams
  • Film Score
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Appalachian Spring

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  • Aaron Copland
  • Ballet suite
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Sonata V, from Sonatas and Interludes

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  • John Cage
  • Sonatas
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Caballito Negro

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  • George Crumb
  • Song (Madrigal)
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West Side Story

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  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Musical Theatre
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Electric Counterpoint, mvt. III

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  • Steve Reich
  • Chamber Work
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Noche de Jaranas (The Night of Revelry)

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  • Silvestre Revueltas
  • Suite from a Film Score

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