Survey Terms Flashcards
(44 cards)
Claude Monet
- French painter
- key figure in the Impressionist movement.
- Deposited the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast.
Whole Tone Scale
A scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, no semitones
Example: CDEF#G#A#
Octatonic Scale
Any eight note musical scale
Universal Exposition of 1889
Celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille
World’s fair in Paris. 32 million visitors!
Javanese Gamelan
- An orchestra of 60+ musical instruments
- Bronze gongs, met allophones, drums, wooden flute and two-strings fiddle.
- Most distinctive Asian musical cultures.
Tombeau
A musical composition in the 16th c, a poem, commemorating the death of a notable individual
François Couperin
- Known for all of his harpsichord music.
- Highly ornamented melodies and complex accompaniments.
- French composer.
Rigaudon
A lively dance for couples, in duple or quadruple time.
Old Provencal dance.
2nd Viennese School
- 20th century composers who sought to take music to the next logical step of compositional practice.
- Schoenberg and his pupils
- Modernist musical movement that introduced radical concepts to Western music, including serialism, atonality, and intentional dissonance
Impressionism
Style that explores mood and atmosphere
- interplay of colours
- melodies that lack direction motion
- avoidance of traditional musical form
Expressionism
A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist seeks to express an emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian painter. Pioneer in abstract art, extremely colorful, pure aestehci experiences. Always in shapes and colors.
Melodram (melodrama)
A story or play in which there are a lot of exciting events and in which people’s emotions are very exaggerated.
Sprechstimme
A cross between speaking and singing in which the tone quality of speech is heightened and lowered in pitch along melodic contours indicated in the musical notation.
commedia dell’arte
Theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful stock characters. Formally called Italian comedy.
passacaglia
A musical form typically in slow triple time with variations, courtly dance.
serialism
A highly specialized technique and way of composition. No note should be repeated until all 12 notes of the note row have been played.
tone row
A particular sequence of twelve notes of the chromatic scale used as a base for serial music.
primitivism
A theory or belied that the qualities of early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
Ballets Russes
Ballet company begin in Paris between 1909 and 1929.
Brought dancers with great traditional training to look at modern forms of movement.
Bringing music and dance together into a cohesive whole.
Sergei Diaghilev
Russian art critic, influence on early modern art. Founder of Ballet Russes (Russian ballet)
neo-classicism
Revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, and music.
Socialist realism
A Marxist aesthetic theory calling for the didactic use of literature, art, music to develop social consciousness in an evolving socialist state.
Formalism
Doing work as its form, the way it is made and its purely visual aspects. A critical approach.
