A scale pattern built entirely from whole-step intervals.
What is a whole tone scale?
100
Founded in Switzerland in 1918, this movement consisted of writers and artists who reacted to the horrors of war and rejected the idea of art as something to admire.
What is Dadaism?
100
Comic German opera with spoken dialogue.
What is a Singspiel?
100
Another name for serialism.
What is twelve-tone method?
100
An art movement whose manifesto of 1909 declared its alienation from established institutions and its focus on the dynamism of 20th century life.
What is Futurism?
200
A single chord made up of several chords; a chord built on six or seven notes forming a highly complex chord.
What is a polychord?
200
The movement that rejected the 19th century music by emulating music of the 18th century; a 20th century style that combined elements of Classical and Baroque music with modernist trends.
What is Neoclassicism?
200
Concerto form that presents two expositions with the first stated by the orchestra and the second by the soloist.
What is double exposition form?
200
One who embraced the movement that sought to evoke poetic images through suggestion rather than description.
What is a symbolist?
200
A term given to Schoenberg and his pupils Webern & Berg, and represents the 1st efforts in twelve-tone composition.
What is the Second Viennese School?
300
The abandonment of tonality; started by the composer Arnold Schoenberg, who removed the tonic by giving the twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance.
What is atonal/atonality?
300
The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music.
What is Formalism?
300
A fanciful solo passage in the manner of an improvisation.
What is a cadenza?
300
The simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns.
What is polyrhythm?
300
An artistic movement that explored the world of dreams; the exploration of the subconscious through fantastic imagery.
What is Surrealism?
400
A particular arrangement of twelve chromatic tones.
What is a tone row?
400
A French movement that originated with painters who tried to capture their "first impression" of a subject through varied treatment of light and color.
What is Impressionism?
400
Comic opera.
What is opera buffa?
400
The Greek equivalent of twelve-tone.
What is dodecaphonic?
400
Two or more streams of harmony against each other.
What is polyharmony?
500
The simultaneous use of two or more keys (tonal center)
What is polytonality?
500
The method of composition in which various musical elements (pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tone color) may be ordered in a fixed series; Schoenberg's ". . .method of composing with twelve-tones." (p. 297)
What is serialism?
500
The musical setting of a mass for the dead.
What is a Requiem mass?
500
The constant shifting of meter.
What is changing meter?
500
The Paris style of painting characterized by geometric patterns.