Music Appreciation Final

Who composed Putnams camp?

Literary movement sharing the ideal of the impressionists

Main body of work of a given period

Piece expressing the character of night

Highly arranged style, with little room for improv.

Arrangement of the 12 chromatic pitches into a row provides melodic and harmonic basis

Short independent or introductory piece for keyboard

Film music heard by the audience only

Music heard by the characters in the film and also by the audience

Popular music rooted from Africathat developed in early-20th-century America.

Recurring melodic fragment or chord bearing dramatic or emotion significance, intro. by Wagner.

composed Im wunderschonen Monat Mai

Late-19th century mvmt in which artists of many Nat. turned from the dominant Ger. influence

Melodic concept involving the selection of pitches from various, sometimes distant, octaves.

Improvised singing on neutral of nonsense syllables

A virtuosic instrumental study or exercise intended for concert performance

Indonesian percussion ensemble

Exploration of previously unknown aspects of musical sound.

Composed Afro American Symphony

Composed symphony No.5

Concert overture

19th century French serious opera style, which emphasized spectacular visual effects.

Lieder

Songs, dances and repartee performed by white men who blackened their skin to portray Africans

Who wrote Einstein on the Beach?

German word for art songs

Dies irae

"Piano Blues" piano style derived from the formal structure of blues

Composed Ride of the Valkyries

WHite musicians version of New Orleans Jazz

Concert music with the sounds of jazz with no improvisation

Realism in opera

Two or more rhythmic patterns performed simultaneously

Combination of jazz and concert music

Style in which geometric planes are imposed on subjects of every nature.

All of the music accompanying a film

Small jazz ensemble

Metronome

Song like character pieces

Composed Lost your head

Vocal style that became jazz from an african american folk song

Style inspired by primitive works of art and by the relaxed life of unsophisticated cultures

Orchestral suite

temporary music used to demonstrate to a films composer the type of music desired.

All of the dialogue, sound effects, and music of a film

One-movement orchestral piece whose form is based on programmatic principles

Recorded natural sound stored digitally and subject to electronic manipulation

Style of music and painting that avoids explicit statement, instead emphasizes suggestion.

Maple Leaf Rag

Interval half way between half steps

Mild style, performed by bands of moderate size, includes instruments not normal to jazz.

Variation of a shaker hymn

Style in which musician improvise independently sometimes producing a random effect

Multimovement form unified by recurrence of the same or similiar melodic material in 2 movement

Setting of humorous words sung very rapidly, with comic effect.

The earliest electronical musical instrument

Chord built on seconds

Musical show representing ideas subject to the audiences interpretation and leaving unresolved

Music consisting of recorded and electronically altered sounds

Composed a Cathedrale Engloutie

Highly emotional style in art that sought to express disturbed states of mind

Music in which some elements of compocsition are left to the decision of performers, or chance

Composed "Erlkonig"

Two or more keys at the same time

Time period of the middle ages/ Renaissance

Relatively short piano piece in a characteristic style or mood

Franz shubert

Jazz styler melding rock thythm and electronic instruments

Composed Mood Indigo

Lush orchetralscores associated with films from the 1930s, 40s, 50s

Character pieces of an improvisatory character

Strain

Wagners concept of music in theater in which the drama and the music were theoretically equal

Complex highly improvised style of Jazz

Nineteenth century Russian composers associated with nationalism

Composed "The Perilous Night"

Use of more than one meter at the same time.

Program symphony

Music performed by a small combo whose soloists take turns improvising on a given tune

Diminution

Composed Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche

Time period for Romantic

Motive

Musical instruments eletronically expanded to alter sound

French comic opera of a satirical or romantic nature. Can also be serious and realistic

Time period for Classical

Romantic technique of robbing from the tempo at some points and paying it back at others

Thematic transformation

Comic or romantic form of music theater, sometimes called light opera. Inc. some spoken Dialog

Time Period for The Baroque

Composed Sound Patterns

Occurance of acents on weak beats or between beats

Composed Nocturne in E-flat Major

Highly improvise style of big band music

General term for several romantic styles that succeded the dominance of German Romanticisim

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Espressive slide between pitches

Composed Hotter than that

Piano whos strings have been altered by foreign material

Avoidance of a tonic note and of tonal relationships in music

Popular piano style with syncopated melody on the right hand accompanied by bass in the left

Art Song

Final scene of a musical show, where soloists simultaneously express their points of view.

The Banshee

Series of tones on which a serial composition is based.

Break

Trio

Piece in Ragtime

Idee Fixe

Composed Symphonie fantastique, Dream of a witches sabath

Flexible notes chosen subjectively from between half steps of tonal scales