Unit Four: Romantic Vocal Flashcards
Impressionism
Late-19th century movement that arose in France; the Impressionists were the first to reject photographic realism in painting, instead trying to re-create the impression that an object produces upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment
Nationalism
Movement in music in the 19th century in which composers sought to emphasize indigenous qualities in their music by incorporating folk songs, native scales, dance rhythms, and local instrumental songs
Exoticism
Use of sounds drawn from outside the traditional Western European musical experience, popular among composers in late-19th century Europe
Modernism
A bracing, progressive style that dominated classical music and the arts generally from the beginning to the end of the 20th century
Neo-classicism
A movement in 20th century music that sought to return to the musical forms and aesthetics of the Baroque and Classical periods
Primitivism
Artistic mode of expression that attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context
Expressionism
Powerful movement in the early 20th century arts, initially a German-Austrian development that arose in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna; it’s aim was not to depict objects as they are seen but to express the strong emotion that the object generates in the artist
Minimalism
A style of modern music that takes a very small amount of musical material and repeats it over and over to form a composition
Chance music
Music that involves an element of chance (rolling dice, choosing cards, etc) or whimsy on the part of the performers, especially popular with avant-garde composers
Electronic music
Sounds produced and manipulated by magnetic tape machines, synthesizers and/or computers
Atonal music
Music without tonality; music without a key center; most often associated with the 20th century avant-garde style of Arnold Schoenberg
Serial music
Music in which some important component - pitch, dynamics, rhythm - comes in a continually repeating series (see also twelve-tone composition)
Twelve-tone Composition
a method of composing music by Arnold S. that has each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale sound in a fixed, regularly recurring order
Musique concrète
Music in which the composers works directly with sounds recorded on magnetic tape, not with musical notation and performers
Second Viennese School
A group of progressive Modernist composers that revolved around Vienna in the early 20th century *** Schönberg, Berg, and Webern
Prepared piano
A piano outfitted with screws, bolts, washers, erasers, and bits of felt and plastic to transform the instrument from a melodic one to a percussive one
Whole tone scale
A 6-note scale each pitch of which is a whole tone away from the next
Polyrhythm
2 or more rhythms sounding simultaneously
Polychord
The stacking of one triad or 7th chord on another so they sound simultaneously
