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Understanding Music Final
Jazz
45
Music
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2008

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Expressionism
Definition
artists distort reality for an emotional effect
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Be-Bop
Definition
Style used by Dizzy Gillespy and Charles Parker, fast tempos & complex harmonies.
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Postmodernism
Definition
Form follows function in architecture. Zorn, Adams, Rochley
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Impressionism
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French artistic movement first applied to the paintings of Claude Money
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Big Band Jazz
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Large ensembles meant to be heard across big dance floors
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Modernism
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commonly called avant-garde
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Folk Music
Definition
music born of anonymous authors passed down by word of mouth
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Neo-Classicism
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principles from past music applied to modern music. Stravinsky
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Free Jazz
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The loosest possible framework for free exploration
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Sprechstimme
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Speaking voice. Pierre Luniere. Asks person to speak on pitches
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Fusion
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1970s style that fuses jazz and rock and roll
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Symbolism
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Artistic style featuring suggestion rather than outright statement
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Jazz
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A western music from the US featuring unredictability and performance
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Twelve-Tone Technique
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also referred to as serialism
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Latin Jazz
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Jazz stemming from Latin American musicians
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"Out" Jazz
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An outsider's art which emphasized harmony outside of tonality
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Piano Rolls
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Used by Joplin to operate player pianos, used to demonstrate proper music
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Piano Rolls
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Used by Joplin to operate player pianos, used to demonstrate proper music
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Thelonius Monk
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Jazz pianist least representative of the bebop style
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George Crumb
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Used unusual timbres and extended techniques
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Igor Stravinsky
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Initially composed for the ballet Russe & wrote rite of Spring
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Claude Debussy
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Borrowed ideas from Indonesian and Russian music, pentatonic sclae
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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German composer who admired Webern
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Sergei Diaghliev
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A Russian impresario
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Edgard Varese
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Father of electonic music
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Paul Hindemith
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Germany's leading neo-classicist
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Anton Webern
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Also Shoenburg's student, made invovations to the 12 tone technique with rhythm and pitch and dynamics
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Milton Babbitt
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An expert mathmatician
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Charles Ives
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First composer of experimental music. Used polytonality
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Louis Armstrong
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Trumpet player. Most influential in New Orleans jazz
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John Adams
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minimalism
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Bela Bartok
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Hungarian, collects folk songs
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Oliver Messiaen
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French composer organist, and ornithologist, studied birdsong
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Duke Ellington
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Composer and the band leader who wrote over 1000 pieces
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Alban Berg
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A student of Schoenburg and made adaptations to the 12 tone technique
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darius Milhaud
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Favored popular idioms and traditional forms
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Benny Goodman
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Clarinet player, and he employed the first integrated big band
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Pierre Boulez
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A French composer and conductor of contemporary and classical music
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Erik Satie
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Favored simplicity and avoided variation
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Lilian Hardin
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Louis Armstrong's second wife
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John Cage
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Chance music, electronic music, nonstandard use of musical instruments
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Abandoned tonality
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Scott Joplin
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An American pianist and composer that played at the Maple Leaf Club
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john Corigliano
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American composer and mastered the genre of the symphony
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Richard Strauss
Definition
Composed Salome
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