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Terms Flashcards

1
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Maximalism

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Radical extension of means for traditional ends

Ex. Balloon–WWI

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French Modernism

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Influenced by Musorgsky’s style

  • Block Composition
  • Sudden Harmonic Shifts
  • “Countercultural” Approach
  • Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Faure
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3
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Austro-German Modernism

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4
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Salome

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Impressionism

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Symbolism

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7
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Avant-Garde

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Neotonal

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Pentatonic Scale

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Whole-tone Scale

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11
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Expressionism

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  • Early 20th C. Style
  • Aesthetic
  • Avoids all traditional forms of beauty
  • Deep personal feelings, exaggerated gestures, angular melodies, & extreme dissonance
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12
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Primitivism

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Style of Rite of Spring

  • Prehistoric time in order to find truth
  • Informs musical choices
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13
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Block Composition

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14
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Ostinato

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15
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12-tone method (Dodecaphony)

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16
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Tone Row

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17
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Prime

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18
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Retrograde

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19
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Inversion

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20
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Retrograde-inversion

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21
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Sprechstimme

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Speech voice

-Drawn from German melodrama

22
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Pierrot Lunaire

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23
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WWI

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24
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Neoclassicism

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  • Trills
  • Contrapuntal Textures
  • Walking bass line
  • Forms: Sinfonia, theme & variations, finale
25
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Octet for Wind Instruments (Stravinsky)

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26
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Gebrauchsmusik

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Music for use

27
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Experimentalism

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28
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Microtones

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29
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Soviet Socialist Realism

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Style
Soviet Russia (USSR)
-Soviet Union
Edifying to the people and the communist party

30
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Alexander Nevsky

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31
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Symphony No. 7 (“Leningrad”)

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Premiere
Extremes
Simple Melody

32
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12-bar Blues

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Music: 12-bar Blues
I I I I-IV IV I I-V IV I I

Lyrics: aab

Bessie Smith (Black Water Blues)

33
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32-Bar Popular Song Form

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AABA

Melody repeats. Not text

34
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Jazz

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35
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Blues

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Music: 12-bar Blues
I I I I-IV IV I I-V IV I I

Lyrics: aab

Bessie Smith (Black Water Blues)

36
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Tin Pan Alley

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Popular Music Publishing Industry (1900s-1920s)

37
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78 rpm record

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38
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Bebop

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39
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Contrafact

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-Preexisting piece of music with something new added

Early Twentieth Century Exam (3 decks)

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