Vocab Old
The layers of sound, how sparse or dense the music is
What is texture?
A method involving placing objects in piano strings to change the timbre.
What is prepared piano?
Guido's three contributions to music.
What is the staff, solfege, Guidonian hand?
The three members of the first Viennese school.
Who were Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven?
How “Rite of Spring” changed the way composers use rhythm and time signatures.
What is rapidly changing the time signature?
To borrow or steal the melody from an already existing song.
What is interpolation?
Not having a set scale or tonality in a piece of music
What is atonality?
The three other parts added to a cantus firmus.
What are duplum, triplum, quadruplum?
How Beethoven overcame his deafness to still be able to “hear” music.
What is bone conduction?
The three members of the “Second Viennese School”
Who were Berg, Schoenberg, Webern.
A short piece that allows a player to hone a specific set of skills on their instrument.
What is an etude?
A word used to describe serialism, meaning twelve sounds or tones.
What is dodecaphonic?
This style of "art" looks like a picture, even though it was actually sheet music you could read.
What is Ars Subtilior?
Two ways how Romantic Music characteristics changed, coming from the Classical Era.
What is: using larger orchestras and new instruments for more color and emotion, rhythms are not as precise, and countries have more of a unique, individual sound.
The difference where Country music was first developed, vs. Creole music.
What are French Louisiana and the Appalachian Mountains?
A clear melody played over less important chords/background parts.
What is homophonic?
A spinning cylinder, made of foil or later wax, that stores sounds using a hollow groove
What is a wax cylinder?
The two instruments typically used in a Basso Continuo.
What are the string bass and harpsichord?
Liszt drew part of his inspiration from the odd violin player and composer known as this:
Who was Paganini?
The group who established the “California Sound”, and what that sound specifically is.
Who are the Beach Boys, characterized by beach culture, optimistic themes, and a sunny, relaxed vibe?
A single movement composition, containing multiple styles pieced together.
What is a rhapsody?
A small, portable magnetic tape in a plastic shell that stores analog audio on two internal spools
What is a (compact) cassette?
What Basso Continuo was replaced with, requiring less skilled improvisation performers.
What are fully written out parts?
How Wagner influenced later composers, especially for movies later in history.
What is a leitmotif?
How the Beatles paid tribute to Buddy Holly after his passing in a plane crash.
What is changing the name from the Quarrymen to the Beatles?