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Music Of The 20th Century Flashcards

1
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What are the different musical elements?

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Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Texture
Timbre
Dynamics
Form

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What is a simultaneous sounding of contrasting layers of rhythmic patterns?

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Polyrhythm

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3
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What a chorus when the accents are placed on the supposedly weak beats?

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Syncopation

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4
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What of course when the composer used the 5 7 11 or other unusual time signatures?

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Uncommon time signature.

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5
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What is whole-tone scales?

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A scale having a whole intervals

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Pentatonic scale consists of how many tones?

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5

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What is twelve-tone system?

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It uses the 12 chromatic tones

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What does polyphony?

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It is the simultaneous sounding of two or more melodies

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9
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How is whole-tone chords formed?

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Formed by combining notes having whole interval

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10
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What is tone clusters?

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It is produced by sounding adjacent notes

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11
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Who is Claude Debussy?

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He was the proponent of the impressionist movement.
“Father of the Modern School of Composition”

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12
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Arnold Schoenberg

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He introduced the twelve-tone system.

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Igor Stravinsky

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One of the trend setters of 20th century.
Neoclassicists

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Bela Bartok

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Neoclassicists, primitivists, abd nationalist, Hungarian folk theme

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Sergei Prokofieff

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Neoclassicists nationalist and avant-grade

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16
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What is Avant_-Garde

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New sounds, extended playing techniques snd unusual time signature

17
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Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc

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Les Sic

Cooly elegant

18
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George Gershwin

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Father of American Jazz

19
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Leonard Bernstein

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An American conductor

20
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Impressionism

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Art forms

21
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Expressionism

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Chromatic melodies thick texture abd enormously rhythm that resukted

22
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Neoclassics

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Modern x Classical Kabooghs

23
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Modern Nationalism

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Folk song x Modern techniques eyy

24
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Chance mysic

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Comes out of every performance
NATURAL

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