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Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Undergraduate 1
12/01/2008

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Impressionism
Definition

Leader- Debussy

 

started in the visual arts

 

characteristics- static, nonclimatic

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Maurice Ravel
Definition

impressionistic

 

had more emphatic rhythms and scale use than debussy

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parallel chords
Definition
a succession of chords all with the same interval structure
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scale
Definition
a collection of pitches arranged highest to lowest or vice versa
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gamelan
Definition

musical ensemble.

 

more specifically an indonesian or malayan ensemble with gongs, gongchimes, metallophones, and drums

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Expressionism
Definition

German movement in early 20th century.

 

Schoenberg

 

Believed that art should reflect the inner consiousness of its creator.

 

DISSONANCE

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atonality
Definition
absence of a key
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song cycle
Definition

a group of songs usually for solo voice and piano.  makes a literary and musical unit

 

*lied (in germany)

 

(poems are usually by the same poet)

Term
Twentieht century and beyond periods
Definition

Pre WWI

Between the wars

Post WWII

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Symbolism
Definition
Literary equivalent of impressionism, suggests rather than states
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Impressionism in music
Definition
Claude Debussy
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Primitivism
Definition

A look outside of western European culture for a more genuine art form

 

Serge Diaghileue

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Serge Diaghileue
Definition

originally from Russia, lived in France, supported the Ballet Russe

 

Brought together Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky who created 3 Ballets together including the Rite of Spring

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Expressionism leader
Definition

Arnold Schoenberg

 

pierrot lunaire

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sprechstimme
Definition
spoken voice
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between wws
Definition
neoclassicism (as determined by country) new classicism, creating something understandable for people.
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film music
Definition
diegesis and mimesis
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diegesis
Definition
the telling of the story by the narrator
-to report
-to narrate
-to indicate
-to look back
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mimesis
Definition
shows rather than tells by means of action that is enacted
-represent
-embody
-transform
-to know only a continuos present
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sound in films
Definition
diagetic and nondiagetic
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diagetic
Definition
it is part of the narrative of the flim
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nondiagetic
Definition
music plays in the background but cannot be heard by the film's characters
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sergei prokofiev
Definition
peter and the wolf
Alexander Nevsky
Term
USA
Definition
Aaron Copland
-trilogy of ballets
billy the kid
-rodeo
*appalachian spring
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Post WWII
Definition
era of the ism
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serialism
Definition
everything is predetermined
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aleatoricism
Definition
chance music/ everything is on the spot
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minimalism
Definition
short snippet:repeat
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internationalism
Definition
more world music
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eclecticism
Definition
anything made to something else
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list all isms given
Definition
serialism
aleatoricism
minimalism
internationalism
eclecticism
experimentalism
neoromanticism
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neoclassical
Definition
Stravinsky
characteristics are objectivity and expressive restraint.
Term
prepared piano
Definition
a piano whose sound has been altered by inserting materials.. John Cage
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