20th century terms
this composer wrote a landmark atonal work that made use of the speech-song technique known as Sprechstimme
Who is Stravinsky?
the term for when a tone row is reversed
What is Retrograde?
A hungarian composer who went around the countryside recording folk songs
Who is Bela Bartok?
Stravinsky's compositional style after WWI
What is neoclassical?
Hindemith's concept of functional music composed for practical, everyday use
What is Gebrauchsmusik?
the two competing composition styes that followed the collapse of late romantic tonality?
What are neoclassicism and twelve tone music?
a french classical composers who was influenced by jazz music
Who is Ravel, or Satie, or Milhaud?
Year Schoenberg started using twelve-tone method
What is 1923
Aesthetic movement emphasizing raw psychological and emotional intensity
What is expressionism?
Any one composer's name from "The French Six?"
Who is Milhaud, Auricm, Poulenc, Tailleferre, Durey, Honegger?
a systematic serial organization of pitches that replaces tonal hierarchy with a structural principle
What is the Twelve-Tone Method?
Speech-song technique: pitched inflection between singing and speaking
What is sprechstimme?
a group of three composers who collective work dismantled the tonal system
Who is the Second Viennese School?
Bartok's friend who traveled with him to record folk songs
Who is Kodaly?
This composer's mature compositional style is characterized by Pointillism, extreme brevity, and postwar influence?
Who is Anton Webern?
isolated tones distributed across instruments and registers, frequently used by Anton Webern
What is Pointillism?