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Music Appreciation
Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rapid slide up or down a scale | Glissando |
| Combination of two chords sounded at the same time | Polychord |
| Chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a third | Fourth Chord |
| Chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart, used in music after 1900 | Tone Cluster |
| Approach to pitch organization using two or more keys at one time | Polytonality |
| Approach to pitch organization using two keys at one time | Bitonality |
| Absence of tonality, or key | Atonality |
| Use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time | Polyrhythm |
| Motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch to stabilize a group of pitches | Ostinato |
| Scale made up of five different tones | Pentatonic Scale |
| Scale made up of six different tones, each a whole step away from the next, which conveys no definite sense of tonality | Whole-tone Scale |
| speech voice; a style of vocal performance halfway between speaking and singing | Sprechstimme |
| Method of composing in which all pitches of a composition are derived from a special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones | Twelve-tone System |
| Particular ordering of the twelve chromatic tones, from which all pitches in a twelve-tone composition are derived | Tone Row (set, series) |
| Method of composing that uses an ordered group of musical elements to organize rhythm, dynamics, and tone color, as well as pitch | Serialism |
| Music composed by the random selection of pitches, tone colors, and rhythms | Chance (aleatory) Music |
| Works which make extensive use of quotations from earlier music | Quotation Music |
| Music created by electronic means | Electronic Music |
| Interval smaller than a half step | Microtone |
| Technique in which music is presented together with visual counterparts such as slide projections, films, or theatrical action | Mixed Media |
| A piano whose sound is altered by placing objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, or pieces of felt between the strings of some of the keys | Prepared Piano |
| a pattern in which one voice or instrument is answered by another voice, instrument, or group of instruments | Call and Response |
| In vocal blues and jazz, a harmonic framework that is 12 bars in length, usually involving only three basic chords: tonic, subdominant, and dominant | 12 Bar Blues |
| Fourth note of the scale, or the triad (chord) based on this note | Subdominant |
| Instruments in a jazz ensemble that maintain the beat, add rhythmic interest, and provide supporting harmonie; the rhythm section is usually made up of piano, plucked double bass, percussion, and sometimes banjo or guitar | Rhythm Section |
| A measure | Bar |
| a statement of the basic harmony pattern or melody | Chorus |
| the group of melodic instruments that improvise on a melody, supported by the rhythm section | Front Line |
| Unaccompanied solos | Break |
| Vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables | Scat Singing |
| a large band made up of fourteen or fifteen musicians grouped in three sections: saxophones, brasses, and rhythm | Swing Band |
| a short repeated phrase that may be an accompaniment or a melody | Riff |
| Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun | Debussy Tone Poem Orchestra |
| The Rite of Spring | Stravinsky Ballet Orchestra |
| Pierrot Lunaire | Schoenberg Sprechstimme Female Voice and Orchestra |
| A Survivor from Warsaw | Schoenberg Contada Narrator, Orchestra, and Chorus |
| Five Pieces for Orchestra #3 | Webern Atonal Orchestra |
| Concerto for Orchestra | Bartok Concerto Orchestra |
| Afro-American Symphony | Still Symphony Orchestra |
| Appalachian Spring | Copland Theme and Variations Orchestra |
| Estancia Suite | Ginastera Suite Orchestra |
| Poeme Electronique | Varese Tape Music Electronic Sounds |
| Concerto Grosso | Zwilich Concerto Grosso Orchestra |
| Short Ride in a Fast Machine | Adams Minimalist Fanfare Orchestra |
| Shard | Carter Fluidity Guitar |
| Claude Debussy | Most important French composer of his time |
| Charles Ives | First great composer from the US |
| George Gershwin | One of the creators of the Musical Theatre golden age |
| William Grant Still | First black composer to have a work played by a symphony orchestra |
| Alberto Ginestra | Most prominent Latin-American composer of the 20th century |
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