Highly impressionable
His canvases directly inspired a set of musical nocturnes.
Who was James McNeill Whistler?
Chart that shows all 48 forms of a row.
What is a matrix (or grid)?
Moonstruck poet obsessed with his art.
Who is Pierrot Lunaire?
Choreographer for Stravinsky’s Rite.
Who was Vaslav Nijinsky?
Artistic movement exploring the human unconscious.
What is Expressionism?
Debussy heard this percussion orchestra at the World's Fair in 1889.
What is gamelan?
The form of the row read from right to left.
What is the retrograde?
Vocal style indicated by an x on the note stems.
What is Sprechstimme?
Dance company for whom the Rite was written.
Who were the Ballets Russes?
Quality of having no tonal center--or all the tonal centers.
What is atonality (or pantonality)?
“Neue Bahnen” (New Paths) introduced him as a musical messiah.
Who was Brahms?
The form consisting of the row’s mirror image.
What is the inversion?
Commissioned a set of melodramas by Schoenberg.
Who was Albertine Zehme?
Archeologist and painter who developed the scenario.
Who was Nicholas Roerich?
Friend of Schoenberg who painted impressions, improvisations, and compositions.
Who was Kandinsky?
Bizet composed a controversial opera in this genre.
Who was Bizet?
Intervals of the small pitch cell that gives structure to a recitation about giant moths.
What is: up a minor third, down a major third?
Visited the U.S. in 1904 to conduct his famous cantata.
Who was Samuel Coleridge Taylor?
Persistent, repeated melodic or rhythmic figure.
What is an ostinato?
His music likely inspired Brahms's interest in chaconnes.
Who was J. S. Bach?
Two compositional techniques that work against a sense of forward motion in Nuages.
What are ....
The first fully 12-tone composition.
What is Schoenberg's Piano Suite Op. 25?
Spiritual used as the theme for Variations on an African Air.
What is "I'm Troubled in Mind"?
Two ways in which Stravinsky's music in the Rite of Spring was new and shocking.
What are ....
Decade in which the method of composing with 12 tones debuted.
What were the 1920s?