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Music History Midterm 1 Crossword
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1) the appearance of all twelve pitch-classes within a segment of music
2) musical style that features syncopated rhythm against a regular, march-like bass
3) The first six or last six pitches of a row
4) a form of atonality based on the systematic ordering of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale into a row that may be manipulated according to certain rules
5) general term for music after 1900 that does not adhere to tonality but instead uses any of the new ways that composers found to organize pitch, from atonality to neotonality
6) form used by Charles Ives and other in which the principal theme appears in its entirety only at the end of a work, preceded by its development
7) a form of atonality based on the systematic ordering of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale into a row that may be manipulated according to certain rules
8) a trend in twentieth-century music that focused on the exploration of new musical sounds, techniques, and resources
10) term for music (and art) that is iconoclastic, irreverent, antagonistic, and nihilistic, seeking to overthrow established aesthetics
12) music that uses the twelve-tone method; used especially for music that extends the same general approach to series in parameters other than pitch
13) the simultaneous use of two or more keys, each in a different layer of the music (such as melody and accompaniment)
14) work or passage that uses multiple quotations without following a standard procedure for doing so such as quodlibet or medley
17) general term encompassing popular music, folk music, jazz, and other traditions outside classical music
22) a vocal style developed by Arnold Schoenberg in which the performer approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following the notated rhythm
23) trend in music from the 1910's to the 1950s in which composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres, and forms of pre-romantic music, especially those of the eighteenth century
25) general term for classical music composed in the first half of the twentieth century and intended for performance alongside classics of the past, in which composers sought to offer something new and distinctive while continuing the tradition.
28) twentieth-century movement that created music based on noise
30) instrumental work in ragtime style, usually in the form of a march
31) in twelve-tone music based on a particular row, the original form of the row, transposed or untransposed, as opposed to the inversion, retrograde, or retrograde inversion
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9) any one of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, including its enharmonic equivalents, in any octave
11) twentieth century composers who made a radical break from the musical language of their predecessors and contemporaries while maintaining strong links to the tradition
15) musical style that represents the primitive or elemental through pulsation (rather than meter), static repetition, unprepared and unresolved dissonance, dry timbres, and other techniques
16) term for music since the early 1900s that establishes a single pitch as a tonal center, but does not follow the traditional rules of tonality
18) backward statement of a previously heard melody, passage, or twelve-tone row
19) a type of music developed mostly by african americans in the early part of the twentieth century that combined elements of African, popular, and European music, and that has evolved into a broad tradition encompassing many styles
20) upside-down and backward statement of a melody or twelve-tone row
21) early-twentieth-century term derived from art, in which music avoids all traditional forms of "beauty" in order to express deep personal feelings through exaggerated gestures, angular melodies, and extreme dissonance
24) "Tone-color melody"; term coined by Arnold Schoenberg to describe a succession of tone colors that is perceived as analogous to the changing pitches in a melody
26) a set of four pitches or pitch-classes. Also, the first four, middle four, or last four notes in a row
27) a collection of pitch-classes that preserves its identity when transposed, inverted, or recorded and used melodically or harmonically
29) terms for music that avoids establishing a central pitch or tonal center (such as the tonic in tonal music)
32) genre of musical theater that features songs and dance numbers in styles drawn from popular music in the context of a spoken play with a comic or romantic plot
33) term derived from art, used for music that evokes moods and visual imagery through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre
34) an ordering of all twelve pitch-classes that is used to generate the musical content
35) reversing the upward or downward direction of each interval while maintaining its size; or the new melody or row form that results
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