Quiz 3 - Terms

Question 1

Chord made from seconds

Answer 1

Secundal Harmony

Question 2

Chord made from thirds

Answer 2

Tertian harmony

Question 3

Chord made from fourths

Answer 3

Quartal harmony

Question 4

Chord made from fifths

Answer 4

Quintal harmony

Question 5

Two keys at the same time

Answer 5

Polytonality

Question 6

(Ha) Notes 1-6

Answer 6

Alpha Hexachord

Question 7

(Hb) Notes 7-12

Answer 7

Beta Hexachord

Question 8

Serial composition (Row forms)

Answer 8

12 tone scale: Prime, Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde-Inversion.

Question 9

12 tone music. Scale of 12 notes organized in any sequence.

Answer 9

Dodecaphonic

Question 10

(Tone Color Melody) A melody created by the subtle changing of tone colors.

Answer 10

Klangfarbenmelodie

Question 11

Music written for a specific purpose

Answer 11

Gebrauchsmusik

Question 12

Parallel structures and its 3 types

Answer 12

Planeing: Diatonic, Literal and Mixed.

Question 13

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).

Answer 13

Axis system

Question 14

6 different pitch classes

Answer 14

Sexatonic Scale

Question 15

7 different pitch classes

Answer 15

Septatonic scale

Question 16

You can only duplicate a certain scale a number of times before you reproduce the same notes.

Answer 16

Mode of limited transposition

Question 17

Jazz and classical fusion

Answer 17

Third Stream Music

Question 18

Painting outdoors, without sketches

Answer 18

Impressionism

Question 19

To present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

Answer 19

Expressionism

Question 20

Term used by the Soviet Union and Nazi government for music against them or the society.

Answer 20

Formalism

Question 21

Permitting composers to pass more of the compositional aspects of a piece back to the performer, nature, or even the audience

Answer 21

Aleatoric /Chance/Indeterminacy

Question 22

Notation in shapes to represent the music

Answer 22

Graphic notation

Question 23

Attempt to make the music more assessable to the public.

Answer 23

Minimalism

Question 24

This was a trend in which composers adopted the familiar tonal idiom of 19th c. Romantic music as well as its sounds and gestures.

Answer 24

Neo-Romanticism

Question 25

Using different styles all at once (electronic sounds, collage, quotation.)

Answer 25

Polystylism

Question 26

The study of music outside of the Western tradition.

Answer 26

Ethnomusicology

Question 27

Group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, particularly Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and close associates in early 20th-century Vienna.

Answer 27

Second Viennese Classical School

Question 28

3 periods in Schoenberg’s career

Answer 28

Tonal - pushing tonality to its limits, Atonal - use of the chromatic scale and Serial - 12 tone music

Question 29

3 periods in Stravinsky’s career

Answer 29

Russian - borrowing folk music, Neoclassicism - simplification, reducing the size of the orchestra and Serialism - new direction inspired by the less emotional style of Webern

Question 30

Differences between the music of Berg and Webern

Answer 30

Berg - Romantic, Webern - Classical

Question 31

Who and what were Les Six?

Answer 31

Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, Tailleferre, Auric, Durey.Group of French (and 1 swiss) composers.

Question 32

The first book published in North America

Answer 32

Bay Psalm Book

Question 33

What factors caused the riot for the premiere of the Rite of spring?

Answer 33

Radical dance movements and overall bad performance.

Question 34

The use of parameters such as rhythm, texture, dynamics and pitch.

Answer 34

Total Serialism

Question 35

When they alter the piano to do unusual sounds.

Answer 35

Prepared Piano