Music Flashcards

1
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Time element in music

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Rhythm

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2
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Loudness or softness of music

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Dynamics

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3
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Color of the music

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Timbre

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4
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Highness and lowness of the sound

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Pitch

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5
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Structure of the music

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Form

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6
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2 chords hear at the same time

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Polychord

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7
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Produced by striking a group of adjacent keys in a piano

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Tone cluster

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8
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Use of 2 or more keys at the same time

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Politonality

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9
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2 keys

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Bitonality

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10
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Two or more contrasting independent rhythms

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Polyrhythm

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11
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French movement during late 19th and 20th century

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Impressionism

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12
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1890-1920

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Impressionism

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13
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Use of unusual chords

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Impressionism

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14
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Dramatic emotion and sentimental melodies

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Impressionism

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15
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Extensive use of colors, ambiguos melodies and innovative chords

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Impressionism

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16
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Effort not to portray reality but merely suggesting it

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Impressionism

17
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Proponent of the impressionist movement and the focal point for other impressionist composers

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Clade Debussy

18
Q

He is Innovative but not atonal style of harmonic treatment

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Maurice Ravel

19
Q

Art movement that begun Germany during the 20th century

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Expressionism

20
Q

Dissonance and atonality

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Expressionism

21
Q

He made the twelve tone system

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Arnold Schoenberg

22
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Rhythmic inventiveness/made new techniques in music

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Igor Stravinsky