Contemporary Era Pt. 1

What is a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious notes?

Prominent composer and authority on Hungarian Folk Music.

Composed "Variations on 'America''

Movement associated with Arnold Schoenberg.

Composed 'In C'

Directed the Budapest Academy of Music.

The Pitches of a given inversion of a 12-tone row are presented in reverse order.

Post-Modernism did what to the past?

Compositional technique in which a fixed series of notes are used to generate the harmony and melody.

Pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.

What does Sprechstimme literally mean?

Outspoken advocate of "Objectivity" in music.

Composed 4'33"

What tonality does Modernism often use?

Father of Chance Music, studied with Schoenberg.

Composed A Lincoln Portrait

Simultaneous playing of contrasting triads or keys

Russian-Jewish Composer living in Brooklyn.

Most consistent radical figure of postwar music.

Composed Rite of Spring

Based on the belief that new must be as different as it can be from the old.

Composer that hated Germans and German music so much he volunteered for military service against the Germans.

The harmonic effect of being in a certain key.

Some of this composer's most famous works use Classical Forms.

Composed Mikrokosmos.

Prolific Hungarian composer and pianist.

Vienesse Expressionist Composer

The intervals between pitches of the 12-tone row are the same but calculated in the opposite direction.

The most basic part of music.

Composed Fanfare For The Common Man.

Developed Sprechstimme.

Contributed heavily to the spread of music education in Hungary.

12-tone technique uses all 12 tones of the platonic scale.

Music for the masses with little need for notation.

Movement that relied on the most basic part of music.

This person's music became known for it's innovative use of repetition, tape music techniques, and delay systems.

Famous for his innovation in orchestration and piano writing.

Canadian Physicist and Composer

French Impressionist Composer

What song is a good example of Minimalism?

Movement characterized by a return to conventional genres and forms.

In Expressionist music, what creates a nightmarish atmosphere?

Characterized by a blurring of distinct harmonies, rhythms, timbres and forms.

Which of the following is not a question posed by John Cage?

Type of music that uses a variety of techniques and styles.

Composed the song Clouds.

Russian Nationalist, Neoclassical Composer.

Composed Dripsody.

Original form of the 12-tone technique row.

Movement associated with Claude Debussy.

Which of the following is NOT a correct explanation of Tonality?

One of the first classical composers interested in Jazz.

What is the name for the character or quality of a musical sound or voice?

Was nearly 50 years old before he developed the 12-tone technique.

Composed Music for 18 Musicians.

Movement that relied on multiple repetitions of small units that differ slightly or very gradually over a long period.

Composer of Wozzeck.

Master of the minimalist style, studied at Cornell.

Frequently involved a rejection of tonality and established genres.

Artistic movement of the early 20th century that emphasized novelty at almost any cost.

Lifelong Interest in electronic music and sound generation. Created one of the first synthesizers.

Composers that felt obliged neither to use nor avoid traditional tonality, conventional forms, and established genres.

Absence of a tonal center.

American Composer who graduated from Yale and took a job in insurance as well as a church organist.

Basic Artistic movement that sought to give voice to the unconscious and express humanity's deepest and darkest emotions

In the Visual Arts, the distortion of reality causes what kind of effect?

Movement that embraces the past (including modernism).

Composed Aria?

These two composers worked together to arrange Hungarian Folk Music and dances.

French composer born 2 miles from the Spanish Border.

The Prime Form of the 12-Tone row is presented in reverse order.

What is it called when a performer doesn't exactly sing or speak, but performs in an in-between style.

In the visual arts, Expressionism is seen as a distortion of what?

Composed Rodeo.

Aesthetic movement of all arts in the early 20th century that used an avoidance of Western Tonal Harmony.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Neoclassicism?