America
Country whose music became just as popular as European music
America
Style of music that gives an impression, often has a vague melody
Impressionism
making up a tune on the spot
1900-present
What musical era are we currently in?
Contemporary
Style of music with a steady LH rhythm and a syncopated "ragged" melody
Ragtime
When composers return to styles of previous periods
Neoclassicism
When the accent is on the weak or "off" beat
syncopation
What era came before the Contemporary era?
Romantic
Name the composer who helped make the transition from the Classical to Romantic era.
Beethoven
Style of music with roots from African American folk music that also typically has a "call and response" form
A style in Expressionism that uses all 12 notes of a chromatic scale in a given order
Serialism
Machine that can produce custom sounds and pitches through modules
synthesizer
Name two inventions from the 20th century
car, plane, space shuttle, computer
What music period does serious instrumental (non-pop, rock, country etc.) get it's name from?
Classical
Style of music with strong yet flexible rhythms (swing) and soloists who improvise
Jazz
Sound captured "in the wild" and played back by recording, often used in electronic music
musique concrete
Harmonies/notes that sound wrong and unresolved
dissonance
What 2 big catastrophic events happened in the 20th century?
WWI and WWII
Era of music where everything was extra fancy.
(The word for this period comes from the word "misshapen pearl".)
Baroque
Name 3 American composers
Joplin, Copland, Ellington, Armstrong, Gershwin, Cage, Reich, Williams
What is another word for Aleatoric music?
chance
no tonal center
atonal
What phrase best describes the style of the Contemporary era?
"anything goes!"
Name all 4 eras of music that we studied in chronological order.
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
Contemporary