MUSIC Q1 Flashcards
Age of musical diversity. composers were more willing to experiment with new music forms or reinvent music forms of the past
20th Century Musical styles
It combines two familiar or simple ideas together creating new sound
Primitivism
It was characterized by emotional restraint, balance and clarity
Neo-classicism
It reveals the composer’s state of mind
Expressionism
Focused on nationalist composers and musicall innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials
Modern Nationalism
Term borrowed to describe music that is intended to convey a mood and impression rather than a dramatic or narrative idea
Impressionism
It is Closely associated with Electronic music and dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space (innovative)
Avant-Garde
Refers to a style where in the piece always sounds different at every performance of the random techniques of production
Chance music
He developed the 12-tone technique; Expressionism
Arnold Schoenberg
Father of the modern school of composition; Impressionism
Claude Debussy
He earned the title of one of music’s truly epochal innovators because of his technical innovations anad the changing face of his compositional style:Primitivism, Expressionism and Neo-classical
Igor stravinsky
composer of “Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun” And “Claire de lune”
Claude Debussy
Composer of “firebird” “the rite of spring” “Petrouchka”
Igor stravinsky
composer of “rhapsody in blue”
George Genshwin
Composer of “Four minutes and thirty-three seconds (4’33”)
John Cage
