Post Tonal Styles
Modern Composers
Historical Periods
Technical Features
Dimensions of Music
20th Century Popular Styles
100
The second Viennese school, led by Arnold Shoenberg and his students, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, focused on composing music in this 20th century, atonal style.
What is serialism?
100
The audience at the premier of his ballet The Rite of Spring reacted so strongly to the music and dancing that it roited.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
100
This historical period began with the first opera around the year 1600 and lasted until J. S. Bach died in 1750.
What is the Baroque period?
100
The music of this historical period featured a variety of genres including operas, symphonies, and concertos, and often assigned instruments to specific roles of melody and accompaniment.
What is the Classical Period?
100
The sequence of varied durations of sounds in a piece of music or melody. It consists of long sounds, short sounds, and rests.
What is Rhythm?
100
This style is most closely associated with the piano, featuring a strict steady beat in the left hand and syncopated rhythms in the right hand.
What is ragtime?
200
This 20th century style of musical composition was strongly concerned with depicting the ancient rituals of pre-industrial cultures of the past.
What is primitivism?
200
He invited audiences to listen to each other for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
Who is John Cage?
200
This historical period began around 1400 and lasted until 1600.
What is the Renaissance period?
200
The music of this historical period celebrated the literary themes of humanism, the natural world, and individual emotions.
What is the Romantic period?
200
The sequence of pitches in a piece of music that we identify when we hear it. The part that you would hum to tell somebody else what a song sounds like. The part of a song that has words. It can have a major, minor, or modal scale.
What is melody?
200
This style of music began with a solo singer with a guitar or banjo, but became most well-known for its 12-measure harmonic scheme.
What are the Blues?
300
Pieces that belong to this 20th century post tonal musical style never sound exactly the same each time they are performed due to their reliance on the interpretation of the performers and chance elements.
What is aleatoric music?
300
He pioneered the practice of arranging the 12 different pitch classes into tone rows that avoid implying a "tonic," or most important pitch.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
300
This historical period began during the life of Beethoven, and lasted until beginning of WWI in 1914.
What is the Romantic period?
300
The music of this historical period often featured polyphonic textures, sometimes with a variety of textures within a single piece.
What is the Renaissance period?
300
This is when two or more pitches sound at the same time. Intervals and chords can have a quality that is major, minor, or otherwise.
What is harmony?
300
This style originated in New Orleans, featuring a small combo often consisting of a bass, a banjo, a drum set, and at least one melodic wind instrument.
What is Dixieland Jazz?
400
Some but not all aleatoric pieces convey their instructions to the performer using the type of non-standard notation pictured here:
What is graphical notation?
400
This pioneer in electronic music looped a tape recording of the voice of a preacher saying "It's gonna rain!"
Who is Steve Reich?
400
This historical period lasted from 500 CE until roughly 1400 CE.
What is the Medieval period?
400
The music of this historical period emphasized homorhythmic textures and featured many genres including operas and concertos.
What is the Baroque period?
400
The characteristic tone color of a particular instrument. This dimension is how you know which instrument is playing when you cannot see it.
What is timbre?
400
This style was most closely associated with post-prohibition dance halls and Big Bands.
What is Swing music?
500
Invert the following tone row:
What is 0, 2, 9, 7, 5, 8, 11, 10, 4, 6, 1, 3?
500
This 20th century composition style sought to create the most music out of the fewest and simplest components.
What is minimalism?
500
This historical period of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven began around 1750 and lasted until the mid 1820s.
What is the Classical period?
500
Music from this historical period often featured monophony, only sometimes used instruments, and sometimes even lacked a steady beat.
What is the Medieval period?
500
The arrangement of the different parts or voices in a piece of music and the roles they play in that piece.
What is Texture?
500
This style incorporated the rhythmic characteristics of ragtime piano into the Jazz style.
What is Harlem Jazz?