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| a rapid slide up or down a scale |
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| combination of two chords heard at the same time |
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| the tones are a fourth apart instead of a third |
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| a chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart |
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| use of two or more keys at one time |
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| only two different keys are used at once |
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| absence of tonality or key |
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| two or more contrasting independent rhythms at the same time |
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| a motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section |
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| stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity |
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| six different notes each a whole step away from the next. |
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marked by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity.
use musical forms and sylistic features of earlier periods, particularly of the eighteenth century. |
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| the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds |
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stressed intense, subjective emotion.
centered in germany and austria from 1905 and 1925 |
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| a succession of varying tone colors used as a musical idea in a composition |
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offers the composer a new way of organizing pitch in a composition
gives equal importance to each of the twelve chromatic tones
systematized form of atonality |
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ordering or unifying idea of the twelve chromatic tones.
the composer creates a unique tone row for each specific piece |
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