Modern Era Styles
A category of music that emerged in the 20th century in which music is created with electronic instruments.
Electronic music
Notes and chords that sound nice when played together.
Consonance
Rejected Romanticism by looking back to music of the 17th and 18th centuries
Neoclassicism
A dissonant chord
Discord
Employs limited or minimal musical materials
Notes and chords that clash and don’t sound nice together
Dissonance
music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
Atonality
A short melody or rhythm that is repeated over and over again.
Ostinato
focused on emotion, mood, and symbolism
Impressionism
A scale containing no semitones but built entirely on whole tone
Whole Tone Scale