12-Tone and Beyond
The ordering of twelve pitch classes.
Tone Row
Primary instrument of Duke Ellington.
Piano
Finnish composer of Teleological Genesis.
Jean Sibelius
Home burough of the Cotton Club.
Harlem
Italian Futurist who built "Intonarumori."
Luigi Russolo
Row played in reverse order.
Retrograde
Large 15+ musician ensemble of the 1930s.
Big Band
English folk song collector/composer. Famous for Sea Songs, English Folk Song Suite, and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Migration destination for New Orleans jazz players.
Chicago
The noise-making machines of the Futurists.
Intonarumori
Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern collective.
Second Viennese School
Instrument section added to 1930s big bands.
Saxophone Section
Russolo’s manifesto on industrial sound.
The Art of Noises
City of the 1913 Rite of Spring premiere.
Paris
Technique using multiple simultaneous rhythms.
Polyrhythm
Composer of The Unanswered Question.
Charles Ives
Memorized or improvised jazz arrangements.
Head Arrangements
Mystical Russian composer of "theurgy."
Alexander Scriabin
Wagner’s location for writing theoretical essays.
Switzerland
Using two different keys at the same time.
Bitonality
Bach chorale cited in Berg's Violin Concerto.
Es ist genug
Famous Harlem venue for Duke Ellington.
The Cotton Club
Movement emphasizing raw, "uncivilized" energy.
Primitivism
Region of origin for Delta Blues.
Mississippi
Extended ordering of parameters like rhythm.
Serialism