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1
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20th Century

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1900-present

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2
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WWI & WWII

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affected composers and their music

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3
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melody

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no longer top element, much more dissonant, disjunction

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harmony

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“no more” functional harmony , emancipation of dissonance, new scales

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5
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tonality

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no tonal center; tonal center created in new ways

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6
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Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ives

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early modernists composers

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7
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(Stravinsky)

Manipulation of rhythm

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driving force in his music and his greatest contribution

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8
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premier riot, ballet, primitive fertility rates, rhythm

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(Stravinsky)

The Rite of Spring

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9
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  • jazz influence,
  • for time composed in neoclassical style
  • tried serialism near end of life
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stravinsky

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10
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20th century traditionalism

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composers went back to traditional musical elements (ex: Ravel, Bartok and Copland)

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11
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originated serialism (12-tone system)

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Schoenberg

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12
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12-tone system (inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion, transposition)

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Schoenberg

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13
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expressionist and modernist composer

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Schoenberg

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14
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Second Viennese School with Webern and Berg

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Schoenberg

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15
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Pierrot Lunaire

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Schoenberg

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16
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impressionism

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a French artistic movement of the late 19th century

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17
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Wozzeck

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Alban Berg

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18
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student of Schoenberg

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Berg

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19
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leading expressionist composer (1862-1918)

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Debussy

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20
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clouds from three nocturnes

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Debussy

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21
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style crystallized in early 30’s due to influence of impressionism and symbolism

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Debussy

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22
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trained at Paris conservatory

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Debussy

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23
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first great 20th century modernist composer

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Debussy

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24
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enduring contributions in piano music and orchestration

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Debussy

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25
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elevated tone color (timbre) to be at least equal to melody, harmony and for

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influenced by Indonesian Gamela

27
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whole tone scale

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divides octave into 6 whole steps

28
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octatonic scale

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8 pitches to an octave alternating whole and half steps

29
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Piano concerto in G

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Ravel, Jazz influence

30
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composed Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

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Ethnomusicologist, Hungarian

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Co-directed the Budapest Academy of Music

33
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the outstanding Nationalist composer of the 20th c.

34
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“The Rock-strewn Hills Join in the People’s Outdoor Meeting”

35
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believed music should speak to the common person

36
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promoter of American music

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eclectic

38
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ballet, Appalachian Springs

39
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Musical characteristics: diatonic, accessible, open sounding

40
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influenced by Stravinsky

41
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composer of 4’33”

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father of chance music

43
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innovative in rhythm and electronic music

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Edgar Varese

44
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poeme electronique

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Edgar Varese

45
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minimalist composer

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Steve Reich

46
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minimalist, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

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John Adams

47
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atonal

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lacks a tonal center

48
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neoclassicism

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a return to musical features of the classical period (or earlier)

49
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what did Copland, Bartok and Ravel have in common?

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neoclassicism

50
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expressionist

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extreme, exaggerated emotion, hysteria, insanity

51
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sprechstimme

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half spoken, half sung

52
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3 phases of electronic music

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musique concrete
synthesizers
computer music

53
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chance music (aleatoric music)

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performer chance

composer chance

54
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minimalism

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music in which simple melodies, motives, and harmonies are repeated many times and change in small increments over long periods of time

55
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no professional musicians among founders

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influences on early American music history

56
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melting pot

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influences on early American music history

57
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cultivated music

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in America, genres and styles of music that were brought from Europe and subsequently nurtured here through formal training and education

58
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vernacular music

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music that was developed in America outside the European concert music tradition

59
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jazz

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improvisation, syncopation, rhythm section (bass, piano, drums)

60
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prelude No. 1

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George Gershwin

61
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New York (Broadway) center

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American musical

62
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Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, loosely based on Romeo and Juliet

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American Musical

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