Modernism in the 20th Century

The absence of tonality or key.

The composers in the 2nd Viennese School.

The Jazz era that flourished in the 1940-1950s. New style of Jazz. (Gillespie)

A French lyrical poem.

A period in the 1920s when African American achievements in literature and music flourished.

Who composed Rhaposdy in Blue?

This technique is known as speech singing.

In contemporary pieces, meter that changes every or almost every measure.

Who composed The Rite of Spring?

Who blended art-music and Mexican vernacular tradition into his music?

This is known as tone color melody.

The technique of composing with the twelve tone series.

A scholar who studies the music of different cultural groups.

The jazz era that flourished between the 1930-1940s. (Armstrong, Ellington, and Goodman)

An artistic movement that displayed vivid dreams and fantastic unreal images.

New or unusual ideas/experiments especially in the arts or the people introducing them.

Who composed Billie’s Blues?

Who composed Pierrot Lunaire?

Who composed Country Band March?

The composers in the 1st Viennese School.

20th century music that returns to the musical forms and sounds of the Classical era.

A style of painting or musicwhere the artist seeks to express inner emotional experience.

A rhythm that makes use of two or more rhythms simultaneously.