Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
20th Century Music
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aleatory | refers to music in which the composer employs elements of chance, either in fashioning the composition itself or in prescribing conditions of performance, or both; also referred to as indeterminacy |
| atonality | non-tonal music and, in common usage, non-twelve-tone music; the term refers particularly to the pre-twelve-tone music of Schoenberg and his followers, which he preferred to describe as being "pantonal." |
| dodecaponic | an ambiguous term referring to the use of the twelve chromatic pitches, but not making clear how they are being used; nevertheless, it is commonly used synonymously with the word serial |
| electronic music | compositions produced exclusively by electronic means as well as some that include both electronic and natural sounds |
| expressionism | a word borrowed from art history to describe German and Austrian composers of the early twentieth century who shared a deeply subjective approach to their craft, most prominently Schoenberg and Berg |
| glissando | a sliding movement through several notes of the scale |
| impressionism | a term borrowed from painting to refer to the supposedly objective tone-painting; _______ music is characterized by parallel chord movement, unresolved dissonance such as 7th and 9th chords, whole-tone scales, and subtle, unusual timbral effects |
| musique concrète | music made on tape with sounds drawn from nature and man-made noises (including human voices) rather than musical instruments; often altered electronically |
| neo-classicism | a 20th century tendency to assume the attitude and employ the techniques and forms of pre-Romantic periods, principally Baroque and Classical |
| pentatonic | refers to music which employs only (or primarily) the notes of a five-note scale |
| polytonality | music in which more than one tonality is present at the same time |
| bitonality | when only two keys are employed simultaneously |
| retrograde | the procedure by which a line or melody is read from the last note to the first; prominent in twelve-tone music and also found in the Renaissance |
| serial | neither a system nor a style of composition, but simply music in which a fixed series of tones (usually 12) generates the entire structure of a composition; finds the parameters of duration, timbre, dynamics, perhaps even articulation |
| sprechstimme | a vocal style halfway between singing and speaking, in which the voice touches the indicated pitches and then quickly moves away from them; often found in expressionistic music |
| sul ponticello | bowing a stringed instrument near the bridge |
| tone cluster | the simultaneous sounding of a number of adjacent pitches |
| twelve-tone method | a 20th century method of composition invented by Schoenberg in which one fixed form of the chromatic scale serves as the basis for a composition, subject to certain rules governing transposition of the row (inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion) |
| whole-tone scale | a symmetrical scale made up of nothing but whole steps |
Created by:
mehrivnak
Popular Music sets