Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Microtonal music wikipedia , lookup
Tone cluster wikipedia , lookup
Chord (music) wikipedia , lookup
Circle of fifths wikipedia , lookup
Notes inégales wikipedia , lookup
Consonance and dissonance wikipedia , lookup
Schenkerian analysis wikipedia , lookup
Figured bass wikipedia , lookup
Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony wikipedia , lookup
1 Terms and Definitions Characteristics of Modern and Postmodern Music Chromatic harmony: harmony utilizing chords built on the five chromatic notes of the scale in addition to the 7 diatonic ones; producing rich harmonies Impressionism and Impressionist Music (See textbook and lecture notes) Modernism and Modernist Music (see textbook and lecture notes) Tone cluster: a dissonant sounding of several pitches, each only a half step away from the other, in a densely packed chord Ostinato rhythms: the same motive played over and over at the same pitch level Polychords: Two triads sound simultaneously, creates a harsh, biting sound Expressionism (see textbook and lecture notes) Atonal music: music without tonality; music without a key centre Sprechstimme: (“speech voice”) which requires the performer to declaim the text more than sing it Postmodernism and Postmodern music (see textbook and lecture notes) Musique concrète: music in which the composes works directly with sounds recorded on magnetic tape, not with musical notation and performers Chance Music: music that involves an element of chance (rolling the dice, choosing cards, etc.) or whimsy on the part of the performers Minimalism is a style of postmodern music, beginning in the early 1960s, that takes a very small musical unit and repeats it over and over to form a composition