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John Cage
He wrote 4 mins and 33 seconds the father of chance music. He studied with Schoenberg, studied zen buddhism and got a fresh attitude toward music, time and indeed all experience why should music be different than sounds of life.
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minimalism
A late 20th century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments
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John Adams
he the one that made El Nino and was born in 1947 inspired by vernacular as well as cultivated styles and genres
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culivated music
In America, genres and styles of music that were brought from Europe and subsequently nurtured here through forml training and education
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vernacular music
Music that was developed in America outside the European concert music tradition
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call and response
In African and early African American music, a style in which a phrase by a leading singer or soloist is an aswered by a larger group or chorus and the process is repeated again and again
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spiritual
Religious folk song, usually among Arrican Americans
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jazz
A major African American performance style that has influenced all 20th century popular music
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beat syncopation
In jazz, the fractional shifting of accents away from the beats
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rhythm section
In jazz, the instrumental group used to emphasize and invigorate the meter
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blues
A type of African American vernacular music, used in jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and other styles of popular music
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gosel music
Genre of African Americna choral church music, associated with the blues
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ragtime
A style of American popular music around 1900, usually for piano, which led to jazz
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Scott Joplin
was a rag composer, lived from 1868-1917 his famous one is Maple Leaf Rag, and The Entertainer
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New Orleans Jazz
first important center of jazz home of the greatest early jazzman Louis Armstrong who played cornet and trumpet this is where they improvisation or jamming
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Louis Armstrong
played cornet and trumpet born in NO he played in seedy clubs and on riverboats were floating dance halls that traveled from town to town on the Mississippi he played for King Oliver and Fletcher Henderson
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symbolism
A late 19th century movement in the arts that emphasized suggestion rather than precise reference
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expressionism
An early 20th century movement in art, music, and literature in Germany and Austria
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pentatonic scale
A five note scarle familiar from folk music playable on the black notes of a keyboard
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whole tone scale
A scale used sometimes by Debussy, comprising only six notes to the octave, each a whole tone apart two semitones
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octatonic scale
An eight not scale used by Stavisnsky and others consisting of half and whole steps in alternation
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quarter tone scale
A 24 note scale used in the 20th century consisting of all the semitones of the chromatic scale and all quarter tones in between the semitones
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serialism
The technique of composing with a series, generally a twelve tone series
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atonal music
As melody grew more complex and harmony grew more dissonant tonality grew more indistinct some music reached a point at which no tonal center could be detected at all
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Claude Dubussy
border of late nineteenth and early twentieth century styles part of the movement of impressionism late romantic era
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Three Nocturnes
Claude Debussy created it in 1899 on cd 2
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Igor Stravinsky
primancy of rhythm 1882-1971 he studied pre romantic era like bach and mozart but putting his twist on it called neo classicism
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The Rite of Spring
cd 3 Igor composed it
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Sprechstimme
is an extreme example of the avant garde composers search through the most basic artistic materials for new expressive means here sound that is not even fully organized into pitches Schoenberg invention its in between singing and speaking
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Aronold Schoenberg
1874-1951 he created the twelve tone system
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Pierrot lunaire
made in 1912 by Schoenberg cd 3 has sprechstimme has five instruments flute clarinet violin cello and piano
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Alban Berg
made Wozzeck in 1923 was his first opera died by an insect bite
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Wozzeck
was a opera by Berg in 1923 it contains no aria and uses leitmotivs its like Pierrot lunaire about a soldier
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twelve tone system
method of composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg in which the twelve pitches of the octave are ordered by and strictly manipulated
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Charles Ives
1874-1954 church organist as a teenager was an insurance person famous is second orchestal set second movement
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Maurice Ravel
is part of the moderism boring in 1875 worked beteween impressionism and modernism his last work was piano concerto in G 1931
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modernism
- Pitch
- New scales
- Rhythm
- New combinations, new rhythms
- Instrumentation
- New sounds
- Form
- Rethinking the old concepts
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Bela Bartok
1881-1945 type of music he used is folk music from Hungarian and left Germany and his publisher he was a pianist educator and musicologist and a composer
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Leon Theremin
- Oscillating circuits
- One closed, one open
- Second circuit becomes closed when body gets near antenna
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big bands
The big jazz bands 10 to 20 players of the 1930s and 1940s
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swing
big band jazz called this compensated from some of its lost spontaneity by variety of tone color and instrumental effects
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Dukee Ellington
1899-1974 made the conga brava in 1940 starts to play in couple ragtime and jazz bands to form his own he is clled duke because of a certain aristocratic bearing and he was fatidious about his music too
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bebop
A jazz style of the 1940s
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operetta
A 19th century type of light often comic opera employing spoken dialogue in between musical numbers
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musicals
American development of operetta, involving American subjects and music influenced by jazz or rock
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Leonard Bernstein
composer and conductor of the West Side Story
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West Side Story
had the sharks and jets capulet and montague new yorker and puerto ricans won grammys emmys and a tony
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rhythm and blues
Genre of Arican American music of the early 1950s forerunner of rock
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