Expressionism
Impressionism
Primitivism
Serialism
Avant Garde
100
Who thought atonality was inevitable?
Schoenberg
100
Who wanted their music to avoid sounding German?
Debussy
100
Opened a Russian style ballet in France?
Diaghilev
100
What is total serialism?
The composer tries to randomize everything in a piece
100
Who was arguably America's most original composer? He delighted in new sound combinations.
Charles Ives
200
What was the subject of Expressionist paintings?
Deep emotion/anxiety
200
What was the subject of impressionist paintings?
Light/Color of a scene to give the general impression
200
What piece is an example of primitivism?
Rite of Spring
200
What is a 12 tone matrix?
A chart showing every variation of the tone row
200
What is the goal of avant garde music?
To find new dissonance.
300
Describe an expressionist painting
Violent, harsh brushstrokes, bold/bright colors,
300
Describe an impressionist painting.
Light colors, dabs of paint, not very clear from close up
300
Describe the form of the Rite of Spring
Sound Panels
300
What is retrograde?
Backwards tone row
300
What American composer provided a new philosophy for sounds/music?
John Cage
400
What piece is an example of expressionism?
Pierrot Lunaire
400
What piece is an example of impressionism?
Voiles
400
Who composed Rite of Spring? Where is he from? How is this important for the Rite of Spring?
Stravinsky - Russia - He used fragments of Russian folk melodies
400
What is Inverse
The opposite of the tone row
400
Name 4 ways avant garde composers tried to innovate.
New Instruments Using normal instruments in new ways Radically modifying an instrument Found Sounds
500
How did Shoenburg take expressionism to music?
Weird timbre (instrument combos) Song-Speech Atonality
500
How did Debussy bring impressionism to music?
Whole tone scale/avoiding cadences - floating rhythmic pulsing in the bass voices
500
What element of music did Stravinsky revolutionize in the Rite of Spring? How?
Rhythm - Giving all the instruments very percussive parts. The nature of how these parts fit together provide interest.
500
What is an octave? How many notes are there in an ovtave?
One set of all the notes. 12
500
What is one example of each of the ways avant garde composers tried to innovate?
New instrument - Synth - Player Piano Modification - Prepared Piano New Way - Tone Clusters and Multiphonics Found Sounds - Water Walk
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