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| Manifesto of 1909 declared an alienation from established institutions and a focus on the dynamism of the 20th century life. |
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| Influential art movement founded in Switzerland 1916 was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. |
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| Early 20th century artistic movement that explored the subconscious, often through fantastic imagery. |
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| Style of modern art, Paris based style of painting in geometric patterns embodied in the works of Pablo Picasso, Geoges Braque, and Juan Gris. |
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| Significant impact on music in 20th century. International counterpart to french impressionism. |
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| Style in art and music that flourished after WW; French term that meant an army charged first into battle. |
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| Two or more streams of harmony played against each other, common in 20th century music. This type of harmony let composers add more more stories to chords and added more tension and dissonance to music. |
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| Entirely rejected the framework of key. Idea of abandoning tonality, doing away with the tonic by giving the twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance. (Arnold Schoenberg) |
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| Method of music composition in which various music elements may be ordered in fix series. (pitch, rhythm, dynamics, timbre) |
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| EMANCIPATION OF DISSONANCE |
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| 20th Century composed emancipated dissonance by freeing it from the obligation to resolve to consonance. This taught listeners to accept tone combinations whose like had never been heard before. |
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| Vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches; developed by Arnold Schoenberg. |
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| (Tone color melody)nEach note of a melody is played by a different instrument, creating a shifting effect that evokes the moonbeams mentioned in the text. |
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| SKY SCRAPER CHORDS/BLOCK CHORDS |
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| Arrangement of the twelve chromatic pitches that serves as the basis of the twelve tone piece. |
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| Arrangement of pitches in reverse order, so that the row comes out backwards. |
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| A tone row whose notes are shifted in order to start at a different pitch level. |
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| Mirror or upside down image of a melody or pattern, found in fuges and twelve tone compositions. |
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| Turns the row upside down and backward. |
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| Arnold Schoenberg and his two most gifted students (Alban Berg) & Anton Webern were referred to as SECOND VIENNESE SCHOOL. |
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| Slight drop of pitch on the third, fifth, or seventh note of the scale. Common in blues and jazz. (bent pitch) |
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| Religious dance of African American slaves, performed with hand clapping and a shuffle step to spirituals. |
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| Communal song that synchronized group tasks. |
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| Folklike devotional genre of the United States, sung by whites and African Americans. |
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| Early jazz style characterized by multiple improvisations in an ensemble of cornet or trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, piano, double bass, tuba, banjo, guitar, or drums. |
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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 Armstrong's style; More commonly refers to big band jazz. |
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| Fairly large group of singers who perform together, usually with several on each part. Also a choral movement of a large scale work. in jazz, a single statement of the melodic harmonic pattern. |
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| Edward Kennedy DUKE ELLINGTON |
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| Had a group who had a unique big band style of jazz that won over a wide audience, both black and white, who danced away their cares in clubs and hotel ballrooms throughout the country. |
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| Classically trained pianist who served as an arranger and composer for the band he was apart of a band. |
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| A jazz technique in which brass players shake their lips to produce a wide vibrato. |
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| Laid back style characterized by dense harmonies, lowered level of volume, and moderate tempos, and new lyricism. |
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| Complex jazz style developed in the 1940s. |
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| Was a small group, cool jazz style featuring mixed timbres and contrapuntal improvisations. (One instrument for each color, sometimes without piano) |
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| Style that turned away from the symphonic poem and the romantic attempt to bring music closer to poetry and painting. |
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| Comparative study of musics of the world, with a focus on the cultural content of music. |
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| A movement in the arts and literature that reacts against early modernist principles through the use of classical and traditional elements. |
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| Art that has popular and urban shit. |
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| Highly dissonant combination of pitches sounded simultaneously. |
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| Musical interval smaller than a semitone (half step), prevalent in some non-western musics and some twentieth century music. |
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Piano whose sound is altered by the insertion of various materials between the strings; Invented by John Cage.
(metal, leather, rubber, paper) |
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| Compositional style in which a composer selects a simple musical idea and repeats it over and over, as its gradually changed or elaborated upon. |
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| A technique used in films in which the music comes from an unseen source. |
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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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| A contemporary style of music that employs the rich harmonic language and other elements of romantic and post romantic composers. |
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