music Flashcards
“was probably first applied to music in 1918, especially to Schoenberg”, because like the painter Wassily Kandinsky he avoided “traditional forms of beauty” to convey powerful feelings in his music.
expressionism
what are the 4 characteristics of expressionistic music?
simple meters, polyrhythm, polymeter, polytonality
paremeters in which the beat divides into two, and then further subdivides into four.
simple meters
is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
polyrhythm
iswhere two sequences are played using different meters, but with the same tempo.
polymeter
is the musical use of more than one key simultaneously.
polytonality
is the arrangement of twelve chromatic pitches in series that provides the melodic and harmonic basis for a music composition.
twelve-tone technique
The notes are numbered by using the corresponding number of half-steps from the first note in the tone row. These numbers are called ?
the pitch classes
what are the 4 twelve tone technique?
prime, inversion, retrogade, retrogade inversion
is the original composition of the twelve-tone series.
prime
is the inverted transposition from the given prime.
inversion
is the backward transposition from the last note of the prime.
retrogade
is the backward and upside down transposition from the note of the prime
retrogade inversion
genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means (electroacoustic music).
electronic music
is a music composition or way of performance, all determined by elements of chance or unpredictability.
chance of music