Quiz 3 - Terms Flashcards
Chord made from seconds
Secundal Harmony
Chord made from thirds
Tertian harmony
Chord made from fourths
Quartal harmony
Chord made from fifths
Quintal harmony
Two keys at the same time
Polytonality
(Ha) Notes 1-6
Alpha Hexachord
(Hb) Notes 7-12
Beta Hexachord
Serial composition (Row forms)
12 tone scale: Prime, Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde-Inversion.
12 tone music. Scale of 12 notes organized in any sequence.
Dodecaphonic
(Tone Color Melody) A melody created by the subtle changing of tone colors.
Klangfarbenmelodie
Music written for a specific purpose
Gebrauchsmusik
Parallel structures and its 3 types
Planeing: Diatonic, Literal and Mixed.
based on the principle that parallel major and minor keys have the same “tonic”, (C major, C minor), and that the closest relationship to a change in tonic is the Relative minor (C major-a minor).
Axis system
6 different pitch classes
Sexatonic Scale
7 different pitch classes
Septatonic scale
You can only duplicate a certain scale a number of times before you reproduce the same notes.
Mode of limited transposition
Jazz and classical fusion
Third Stream Music
Painting outdoors, without sketches
Impressionism
To present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Expressionism
Term used by the Soviet Union and Nazi government for music against them or the society.
Formalism
Permitting composers to pass more of the compositional aspects of a piece back to the performer, nature, or even the audience
Aleatoric /Chance/Indeterminacy
Notation in shapes to represent the music
Graphic notation
Attempt to make the music more assessable to the public.
Minimalism
This was a trend in which composers adopted the familiar tonal idiom of 19th c. Romantic music as well as its sounds and gestures.
Neo-Romanticism
Using different styles all at once (electronic sounds, collage, quotation.)
Polystylism
The study of music outside of the Western tradition.
Ethnomusicology
Group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, particularly Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and close associates in early 20th-century Vienna.
Second Viennese Classical School
3 periods in Schoenberg’s career
Tonal - pushing tonality to its limits, Atonal - use of the chromatic scale and Serial - 12 tone music
3 periods in Stravinsky’s career
Russian - borrowing folk music, Neoclassicism - simplification, reducing the size of the orchestra and Serialism - new direction inspired by the less emotional style of Webern
Differences between the music of Berg and Webern
Berg - Romantic, Webern - Classical
Who and what were Les Six?
Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, Tailleferre, Auric, Durey.Group of French (and 1 swiss) composers.
The first book published in North America
Bay Psalm Book
What factors caused the riot for the premiere of the Rite of spring?
Radical dance movements and overall bad performance.
The use of parameters such as rhythm, texture, dynamics and pitch.
Total Serialism
When they alter the piano to do unusual sounds.
Prepared Piano
