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Characteristics of Music
Expressionism
Schoenberg
Impressionism
Debussy
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20th Century music used chords not based on triads, and instead commonly used this type of chord.
What is a fourth chord?
100
Expressionism originated in this country
What is Germany?
100
A method of atonality that Schoenberg created.
What is the 12-tone system?
100
The painting by this painter caused the name "Impressionism" to be coined.
Who is Monet?
100
Debussy wrote in this style of music.
What is Impressionism?
200
A combination of 2 chords heard at the same time.
What is a polychord?
200
The father of musical Expressionism.
Who is Schoenberg?
200
The unusual half-speaking/half-singing method of vocalizing that Schoenberg used in pieces like Pierrot Lunaire and A Survivor from Warsaw.
What is sprech-stimme?
200
This poetry movement corresponded with the Impressionist artists and musicians.
What is Symbolism?
200
A 5-tone scale that Debussy used, originating from Javanese music.
What is the pentatonic scale?
300
This phrase refers to the abandonment of the traditional distinction between consonance and dissonance.
What is the "emancipation of dissonance?"
300
Schoenberg's two well-known students.
Who are Webern and Berg?
300
The Pierrot Ensemble consists of these 5 instrumentalists.
What is the flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, violin/viola, and piano.
300
This poet said "to name an object is to suppress 3/4 of the enjoyment... the dream is to suggest."
Who is Mallarme'?
300
Scale Debussy used that is tonally vague, and made up of 6 different notes each a whole step away from the next.
What is the whole-tone scale?
400
Two or more contrasting, independent rhythms happening at the same time.
What is a polyrhythm?
400
Expressionism grew out of the intellectual climate as this person's studies of hysteria and the unconscious.
Who is Freud?
400
The sad-clown figure used often in Expressionist art and music.
What is Pierrot?
400
This composer is known as the quintessential Impressionist.
Who is Debussy?
400
In addition to Russian music, Debussy was also influenced by this type of music.
What is Asian music?
500
The absence of tonality or key.
What is atonality?
500
This person wrote "Wozzeck," an opera about a soldier returning from war.
Who is Berg?
500
The 4 ways a tone row (or tone set) can be organized in the 12-tone system of music.
What is the original, retrograde, inversion, and retrograde inversion?
500
3 Characteristics of Impressionism in music.
What is tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity?
500
Debussy's piece based on a poem by Mallarme'
What is "Afternoon of a Faun?"