Music Flashcards
(22 cards)
Time element in music
Rhythm
Loudness or softness of music
Dynamics
Color of the music
Timbre
Highness and lowness of the sound
Pitch
Structure of the music
Form
2 chords hear at the same time
Polychord
Produced by striking a group of adjacent keys in a piano
Tone cluster
Use of 2 or more keys at the same time
Politonality
2 keys
Bitonality
Two or more contrasting independent rhythms
Polyrhythm
French movement during late 19th and 20th century
Impressionism
1890-1920
Impressionism
Use of unusual chords
Impressionism
Dramatic emotion and sentimental melodies
Impressionism
Extensive use of colors, ambiguos melodies and innovative chords
Impressionism
Effort not to portray reality but merely suggesting it
Impressionism
Proponent of the impressionist movement and the focal point for other impressionist composers
Clade Debussy
He is Innovative but not atonal style of harmonic treatment
Maurice Ravel
Art movement that begun Germany during the 20th century
Expressionism
Dissonance and atonality
Expressionism
He made the twelve tone system
Arnold Schoenberg
Rhythmic inventiveness/made new techniques in music
Igor Stravinsky