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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 second Vienese school of composers

Who is Schoenberg, Webern, Berg

300

Words that describe impressionist music

What is a blurry, vague painting

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

This type of music deals with deep personal feelings perceived in the artists mind rather than their eyes.

What is Expressionism?

400

The University that he taught after coming to America.

What is University of California Los Angeles

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?"