Quiz 6 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Nonfunctional Tonality
No logical connection between chords, break with traditional tonality
Chromaticism
Use of all 12 notes (white and black keys) instead of simply the seven notes of the major scale.
Pentatonic Scale
Five notes, no half steps
Diatonic Scale
Seven notes, two half steps
Whole Tone
Six notes, only whole steps
Chromatic Scale
12 notes, only half steps
Inspiration for Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”
Stephane Mallarme’s poem: “L’Apres-midi d’un faune”
Verismo
Italian operatic style that originated in the 1890s with realistic modern settings, gritty plots, and heavy voices.
Excoticism
The use of foreign elements in Western music, often drawn from Asia, Africa, or the Middle East.
Ballets Russes
Russian ballet troupe that performed Stravinsky’s first ballets
Primitivism
an artistic movement that drew inspiartion from traditional non-western art
Cubism
A painting movement that broke down familiar objects into geometrical shapes and got rid of traditional perspective
Ostinato
A repeating mechanical pattern
Second Viennese School Composers
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Alban Berg
Expressionism
Artistic movement that sought to express emotion through extreme distorted means
Atonality
The absence of any key center, no more sense of consonance and dissonance
Sprechstimme
Speech-singing in which the performer slides between notes
Seralism
A form of harmonic organization in which all 12 chromatic notes are stated in a series before any of them are repeated
