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MUL 2010, spring'11 UCF final
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Music
Undergraduate 2
04/25/2011

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Tone cluster
Definition
Chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart, used in music after 1900.
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Polytonality
Definition
Approach to pitch organization using two or more keys at one time, often found in twentieth-century music.
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Atonality
Definition
Absence of tonality, or key, characteristic of much music of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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impressionism
Definition
Musical style which stresses tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity, typical of Debussy (flourished 1890–1920).
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serialism
Definition
use of the techniques of the twelve-tone system to organize rhythm, dynamics, and tone color.
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neoclassicism
Definition
Musical style marked by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity, inspired by the forms and stylistic features of eighteenth-century music, found in many works from 1920 to 1950.
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Diaghilev
Definition
Important person in Stravinsky's life. Asked Strav to orchestrate piano pieces by Chopin as a ballet music for the Russian ballet in 1909. Firebird was created in 1910
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expressionism
Definition
Musical style stressing intense, subjective emotion and harsh dissonance, typical of German and Austrian music of the early twentieth century.
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Petrushka
Definition
Stravinksi's 2nd ballet in 1911.
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primitivism
Definition
Evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds.
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Klangfarbenmelodie (tone-color melody)
Definition
Succession of varying tone colors serving as a musical idea in a composition, used by Schoenberg and his followers.
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Sprechstimme
Definition
In German, speech-voice; a style of vocal performance halfway between speaking and singing, typical of Schoenberg and his followers.
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Horatio Parker
Definition
Charles Ives conservative musical teacher at Yale.
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Philosophy of Unanswered Questions
Definition
depicts the search for the meaning of life
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Nadia Boulanger
Definition
world renowned teacher in Paris, who taught Philip Glass. She also taught Elliot Carter
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Porgy and Bess
Definition
(1935) An American musical that combines musicals and operas. Written by George and Ira Gerswhin. similar to Bernstein's West Side Story
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Martha Graham
Definition
Great modern dancer and choreographer, where Appalachian Spring was originated as a ballet score.
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minimalism (minimalist music)
Definition
Music characterized by steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns; its dynamic level, texture, and harmony tend to stay constant for fairly long stretches of time, creating a trance-like or hypnotic effect; developed in the 1960s.
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Aleatoric music
Definition
Chance music

20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize. The term is a loose one, describing compositions with strictly demarcated areas for improvisation according to specific directions and also unstructured pieces consisting of vague directives, such as “Play for five minutes.”
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ionisation
Definition
an entire piece of music written entirely for percussion by Edgar Varese.
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Lorca
Definition
Spanish poet who's poems were the inspiration for Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children
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3 Composers who won a Pulitzer prize
Definition
Winton Marsalis, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Ives, Gerswhin,
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Texture
Definition
both homophonic and contrapuntal textures employed and a variety
within a single composition.
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Tonality
Definition
major -minor system retained by some composers, but methods of
establishing tonal centers altered. Other composers employed atonal
systems including serialism.
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Rhythm
Definition
Complex rhythms; rhythmic patterns used; frequent absence of well-
defined beat; and frequent changes of meter
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Harmony
Definition
High dissonance levels; mew methods of chord construction in
addition to triadic harmony
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Tone color
Definition
Instruments sometimes played in extreme registers; unusual
instruments and instrumental groupings
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Melody
Definition
sometimes derived from short melodic motives; melodies are
often not easy to sing due to extreme range and melodic intervals.
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Dynamics
Definition
Extremes employed and rapid dynamic fluctuations.
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Ensembles
Definition
Wide variety in size of ensembles from very small to gigantic.
New Organizational Procedures include serialism (twelve-tone)
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General stylistic trends
Definition
Post Romanticism, Impressionism, primitivism,
neoclassicism, and Expressionism
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Vocal styles
Definition
Combination of ordinary speaking, conventional singing, and
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