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| a term used in music to describe unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres. |
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| symmetrical structure within which a unit of music progresses toward a midpoint and then more or less retraces its steps. |
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| a proportion that occurs naturally as well as unconsciously in music because it "feels" right. Approx .618 |
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| melodic/harmonic idiom first cultivated in the early decades of the 20th century, characterized by the abscence of a tonal center |
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| famous expressionist painting |
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| broad artistic movement of the early 20th century that sought to give voice to the unconsious |
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| "speech-voice" a style of vocal declamation that lies midway between speech and song. assoc. with schoenberg & berg |
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| “Second Viennese School”- |
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| group of composers that included Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern |
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| sad clown, butt of the joke |
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