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| Strauss - symphonic poems |
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| exotic scales, unresolved dossonances, parallel chords, rich orchestral color, free rhythm (Claud Debussy) |
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| Paris World Exibition 1889 |
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| an exhibition marking the centenary of the French Revolution |
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| German response to French impressionism. composers such as Schoenberg and Webern explored new harmonic systems and the extreme registers of instruments |
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| Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern |
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| the simultaneous use of severa rhythmic patterns or meters commin in 20th Cent. music and in certain African music |
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| total abandonment of tonality moves from one level of dissonance to another without areas of relaxation |
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| method of composition in which various musical elements may be ordrered in a fixed series |
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| a vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches, developed by Schoenberg |
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| mexican ensemble consisting of trumpet, violin, guitar. and bass |
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| Joplin performed ragtime music, first time it gained public notice |
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| tried to rid music of the story-and-picture meaningsw favore in the 19th Cent. |
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| late 19th Cent piano style created by African Americans characterized by highly sincopated melodies also played in ensemble arrangements |
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| a jazz style that sets syllables without meaning to an improvised vocal line |
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| Jazz term coined to describe Louis Armstrongs style, more commonly refers to Big Band jazz |
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| complex jazz style developed in the 1940's |
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| jazz term for a short improved section or solo without accompaniment that breaks an ensemble passage or introduces an extended solo |
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| roots in European operetta, brought by emigre composers |
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| dance of Afro-Cuban origin with a characteristic quadruple rhythm pattern |
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| a film technique in which music comes from a logical source within the film and functions as part of the story |
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| popular music first heard in 1950's derived from the union of African American rythm and blues, country western, and pop music |
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| extremly complex totally controlled music in which the twelve tone principal is extended to elements of music other than pitch |
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| indeterminate musi in which certain elements of performance are left to choice or chance |
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| piano whose sound is altered by various materials (metal, rubber, leather, and paper) between the strings, invented by John Cage |
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| piano whose sound is altered by various materials (metal, rubber, leather, and paper) between the strings, invented by John Cage |
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| music made up of natrual sounds and sound effects that are recorded and then manipulated electronically |
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| electronic music debveloped in Germany in the 1950's that uses an oscillator to generate and alter waveforms |
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| contemporary musical style featuring the reptition of short melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with little variation |
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| a bell-like style developed by Estonian composer Arvo Part. achieved by weaving conjunct lines that hober around a central pitch; from the Latin word for bell |
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| a contemporary style that combines the lush harmonies of New Romanticism with the high-energy rhythms of minimalism; John Adams os a major exponent |
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