Music

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focuses on suggestion and atmosphere rather than depicting emotions

the artist convey moods rather than depicting reality

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impressionism

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One of the earlier but concrete forms of declaring the entry of the 20th century music

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impressionism

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Instruments were played to create a darker sounds - low sounds

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color ( timber/ tone color)

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focuses on mood

• gives a feeling or mood of being transported to another place

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atmosphere

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unusual scales

Whole tone scale each note is separated with a whole tone

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chords

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Music, a scalar arrangement of pitches, each separated from the next by a whole-tone step (or whole step)

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whole tone scale

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He was the primary exponent of the impressionist movement and focal point for otherimpressionist composers.

“Father of Modern School of Composition”

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Claude Debussy

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During his stint with the school where he stayed until the early 20’s, he had composed a number of masterpieces

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Maurice ravel

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served as a medium for expressing strong emotions, such as anxiety, rage/anger, hostility

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expressionism

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The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch class

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12 tone scale

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He is credited with the establishment of the twelve-tone system

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Arnold Schoenberg

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He added a new ingredient to his nationalistic musical style.

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igor Stravinsky

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through the use of materials from other cultures

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exoticism

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through the use of materials indigenous to specific countries

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nationalism

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through the use of materials from European ethnic groups

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ethnicism

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a neo-classicist, primitivist, and a nationalist composer, he used Hungarian folk themes and rhythms

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bela Bartok

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partial return to a classical form of writing music with carefully modulated dissonances It made use of a freer seven - note diatonic scale

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neo classicism

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His style is uniquely recognizable for its progressive technique, pulsating rhythms, melodic directness and a resolving dissonance

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sergei prokofief

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A member of the group of young composers known as “Les Six” His compositions had a cooly elegant modernity, tempered by a classical sense of proportion

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FRANCIS POULENC

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Innovation and application of new concepts and techniques

Dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space

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avant garde music

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Father of American Jazz

His “mixture of primitive and sophisticated” gave his music an appeal that has lasted long after his

death

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george gershwin

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His philosophy was that the universal language of music is basically rooted in tonality

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Leonard Bernstein

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A looser form of the 20th century music development focused on nationalist composers and musical innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials

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modern nationalism

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The capacity of electronic machines such as synthesizers, amplifiers, tape recorders and loudspeakers to create different sounds

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electronic music

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The composer is able to experiment with different sounds that cannot be produced by regular

musical instruments such as piano or the violin

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concrete music

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“Father of Electronic Music

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Edgard varese

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A central figure in the realm of electronic music

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KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

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music style that refers wherein the piece always sounds different at every performance because of the random techniques of production, including the use of ring modulators or natural elements that become a part of the music

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chance music

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Experimented with what came to be known as Chance Music

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john cage