Modes
France: Late 1860's and Beyond
Debussy
Other scales
Potluck Music Theory
100
The natural minor scale is the same as this mode...
What is Aeolian
100
Originally beginning as an artistic movement in the visual arts, Painters like "Monet, Manet, and Degas," are all examples of artists in this time period...
What is Impressionism
100
This prestigious composition award in music was won by Debussy at an early age...
What is the Prix da Rome
100
A scale with all whole steps
What is a whole tone scale
100
this non-chord tone is held in the bass while harmonies above it change
What is a "pedal point"
200
This mode can be constructed by singing "mi" to "mi"
What is Phrygian
200
Visual artists were especially concerned with this visual effect
What is light and how it affects our perception
200
This famous Debussy orchestral piece "paints a picture of a Faun and his lovely afternoon"
What is "Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun"
200
a scale that consists only of half steps
What is chromatic scale
200
Four types of triads may be listed as major, minor, augmented and
What is "diminished" or demolished, haha.
300
Like Phrygian mode, this mode starts right off with this interval
What is a half step
300
Impressionism was one of the first movements in this artistic category
What is "modern."
300
"Pour le Piano," completed in 1901, is translated:
What is "for the piano"
300
This scale has a prefix which refers to "five"
What is pentatonic
300
harmony that doesn't change very often may be termed as
What is "static"
400
Like Phrygian mode, this mode starts off with this interval...
What is a half step
400
Name the artist of this famous series: "Rouen Cathedral"
Who is Claude Monet
400
"Pour le Piano" has titles of movements that are from this period of music...
What is Baroque: "Prelude, Sarabande and Toccata."
400
This scale alternates whole steps and half steps in succession
What is octatonic
400
a rapid "whoosh" of adjacent notes on the piano
What is a glissando
500
Listen to the following mode and name its construction...
What is mixolydian
500
"A Girl with a Watering Can" was created by
Who is Renoir
500
This famous, descriptive piece of Debussy, was highlighted in the vampiric film "Twilight."
What is "Claire de Lune"
500
atonal means
What is "the absence of a key"
500
An improvisatory section of a concerto in which only the soloist may make up material in a virtuoso manner; this section is often found at the end of the first movement
What is a cadenza
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