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Ballet Russe & Sergei Diaghilev
- brought most creative artists for ballet in Paris
- pushed boundaries
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Fin de'siècle
end of the century
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Serialism
Music composed in 12 tone method
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Total serialism
all parts of the music is determined by applying the 12 tone method
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Atonal
without tonal center
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Primitivism
popular by Stravinsky; deliberate representation of the crude, elemental, uncultured
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Neoclassical
music of 1910s-1950s where composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres, and forms of pre-Romantic music
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NeoTonal
music from early 1900s that establishes a single pitch as tonal center, but doesn't follow traditional rules of tonality
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Chromatic Saturation
appearance of all 12 pitch classes within a segment of music
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Expressionism
early 20th century, music avoids all traditional forms of "beauty" in order to express deep personal feelings through exaggerated gestures, angular melodies, and extreme dissonance
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Indeterminacy, aleatoric music
- sounds different every time
- piece can be customized by performer
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Pointillism
style of art where a bunch of little dots make a big image
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Minimalism
unfolding very slowly, minimal material, repetition
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Modernism
- a conscious break from the past
- reject common harmony
- reject or reimagine classical forms
- new simplicity or complexity
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Postmodernism
- all of history fair game
- no taking itself seriously
- simplified
- everything is equally valuable and important
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Darmstadt School
- group of composers who attended Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music
- Key influences Webern and Varese
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Entartete Musik
Label given by 1930's Nazi government to music that was deemed harmful or decadent
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Sprechstimme
Speech-singing
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Octatonic scale
8-note scale, alternate intervals of whole and half steps, symmetric
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