The 2nd Viennese School
Schoenberg's term for freeing dissonances from the need to resolve.
The Emancipation of the Dissonance
1913 ballet that caused a riot in Paris.
The Rite of Spring
"Father of the Blues" who published Memphis Blues.
W.C. Handy
Syncopated piano style precursor to Jazz.
Ragtime
The first "talkie" film (1927).
The Jazz Singer
Vocal technique in Pierrot lunaire approximating speech.
Sprechstimme
Two triads (C and F#) a tritone apart
The standard AAB harmonic/poetic structure.
Twelve-Bar Blues
The city widely cited as the birthplace of Jazz.
New Orleans
Music within a film audible to characters.
Diegetic Music
Quintessential Expressionist monodrama by Schoenberg (1909).
Erwartung
Movement to revive pre-Romantic styles.
Neoclassicism
Blues style featuring male singers with guitars from Mississippi.
Delta Blues
Virtuoso trumpeter who made Jazz a soloist's art.
Louis Armstrong
Composer of the King Kong score.
Max Steiner
Berg opera using musical "inventions" for Act III scenes.
Wozzeck
Bartók's 6-volume collection for piano students.
Mikrokosmos
Flattening the 3rd, 5th, or 7th scale degrees.
Blue Notes
Migration of Black musicians to Northern cities.
The Great Migration
Edison’s invention using wax cylinders.
The Phonograph
Webern’s technique of "tone-color melody."
Klangfarbenmelodie
Interval emphasizing the structure of Bartók's Synthesis.
The Tritone
The 1920 Bessie Smith commercial hit (about a flood).
Back Water Blues
Red Hot Peppers leader who claimed to invent Jazz.
Jelly Roll Morton
1920s invention enabling the "crooning" style.
The Electric Microphone