Intro to Music
Terms
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- Concert overture
- independent 1 mvt. Orchestral composition
- ex of concert overture
- 1812 Overture
- Music Drama
- term used by Wagner for his operas. He felt drama was most important element with music serving to reinforce
- Libretto
- text of an opera.
- First composer to write own librettos
- Wagner
- Tonal music
- music in a key, major or minor
- Another name for tonal music
- tonality
- Ex of tonal music
- Brahm's Piano Concerto #2 (B flat)
- Atonal Music
- lack of a key, not based on m ajor or minor scale.
- Ex of atonal music
- Ives Unanswered Question
- Gavotte
- old French dance in 4/4. Begins on the 3rd beat
- Ex of a gavotte
- Prokofieff's Gavotte from The Classical Symphony
- Polytonality
- more than one key simultaneously
- Polyrhythm
- more than 1 rhythm simultaneously
- Ex of polyrhythm
- Ives Unanswered Question
- Cluster
- group or bunch of meaningless notes struck together
- Ex of artist who used clusters
- Ives
- Variations
- altering a given theme by changing tempo, rhythm, dynamics, instrumentation, key, etc.
- Ex of variation
- Copland Variations on a Shaker Melody
- Dates of Impressionism
- 1890-1910
- Impressionism
- artistic movement of late 19 and early 20 centuries. Borrowed from painting (Monet- Impression Sunrise), impressionistic music hints and suggests rather than states. Subtle, elusive quality
- Ex of impressionism
- Debussy Isle of Joy, La Mer
- Nuance
- tonal shading, lights and shades of tonal coloring
- Ex of artist who used nuance
- Debussy
- Chromatic Scale
- scale using all half steps
- Whole tone scale
- scale using all whole steps
- Diatonic Scale
- scale using half and whole steps