Test 4 Flashcards
32 Bar Song Form (A-A-B-A)
Classical Symphonic Pattern
A-A-A
12 Bar Blues
A-A-A-A
Strophic
A-B-A-B-C-B
Verse/Chorus
First theme in tonic key
Bridge with modulation to new key
Second theme in new key
Closing section
Exposition
New treatment of themes, modulations
“Bottle”
Height of tension
Development
First theme in tonic key
Bridge
Second theme in tonic key
Closing section
Recapitulation
optional closing section
Coda
-an immense amount of richness and variety where many styles existed
-emphasis on self expression and individual style
-individual style
-expressive subject material
Romantic
instrumental music that represents an idea, an individual, a poem or a scene
Program Music
-impermanence, change, and fluidity
-unstable harmony
Impressionism
impressionism began here
Art Salons of Paris
-develops own tonal language
-lot of Russian influence
-establishes an unstable scale
Debussy
function should always dictate form
-philosophical and cultural movement through the 19th and 20th centuries
-rejected enlightenment thinking and religious beliefs (tradition)
-reaction to the Great War
Modernism
music that lacks tonal center
Atonal
-death of modernism
-a critique of modernism and of structures
-no absolute truth
-everything was built on social constructs
Post Modernism
-composer and musician
-mushrooms
-leading figure in modern and post modern thinking, experimentation, and post war avant garde
John Cage
unintended sounds
4’33”
a piano that has sound altering objects placed on strings
Prepared Piano
music composed by chance
Aleatoric
-book of changes
-Chinese divination text
I Ching
-music characterized by steady pulse, clear tonality and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns
-often features phasing
-two of the same patterns are played at steady but not identical tempi
Minimalism
-schoolberg and the 2nd vietnamese school
-12 tone system
-a systemized form of anatonality which gives equal importance to each of the 12 tones
Phasing
-good vs evil
-morality
-language
-all forms of art
Post Modern Social Constructs
