Contemporary Era Pt. 1

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

Composer of Wozzeck.

Original form of the 12-tone technique row.

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

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

Composed Dripsody.

Movement characterized by a return to conventional genres and forms.

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

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

Composed Aria?

Composed Rite of Spring

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

One of the first classical composers interested in Jazz.

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

The harmonic effect of being in a certain key.

Composed the song Clouds.

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

Composed Fanfare For The Common Man.

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

Russian-Jewish Composer living in Brooklyn.

Simultaneous playing of contrasting triads or keys

Vienesse Expressionist Composer

What does Sprechstimme literally mean?

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

Composed 4'33"

Composed Mikrokosmos.

The most basic part of music.

Composed A Lincoln Portrait

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

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Neoclassicism?

French Impressionist Composer

Prolific Hungarian composer and pianist.

What song is a good example of Minimalism?

Russian Nationalist, Neoclassical Composer.

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

Master of the minimalist style, studied at Cornell.

Absence of a tonal center.

Movement associated with Claude Debussy.

Movement associated with Arnold Schoenberg.

Music for the masses with little need for notation.

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

Contributed heavily to the spread of music education in Hungary.

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

In Expressionist music, what creates a nightmarish atmosphere?

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

Composed Music for 18 Musicians.

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

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

Frequently involved a rejection of tonality and established genres.

Father of Chance Music, studied with Schoenberg.

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

Most consistent radical figure of postwar music.

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

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

What tonality does Modernism often use?

Post-Modernism did what to the past?

Directed the Budapest Academy of Music.

Canadian Physicist and Composer

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

Composed "Variations on 'America''

Composed Rodeo.

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

Movement that relied on the most basic part of music.

Composed 'In C'

Famous for his innovation in orchestration and piano writing.

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

Prominent composer and authority on Hungarian Folk Music.

French composer born 2 miles from the Spanish Border.

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

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

Pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.

Outspoken advocate of "Objectivity" in music.

Movement that embraces the past (including modernism).

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

Developed Sprechstimme.

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