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Chance music
A type of music where pitches, rhythms, and timbres are chosen completely at random.
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Atonal
Music composed with no specific tonal center
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Expressionism
A musical style stressing intense, subjective emotion and harsh dissonance
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Impressionism
A musical style the stresses tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity.
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Polyrhythm
The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time
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Polytonality
The simultaneous sounding of two keys at once.
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Primitivism
Music using the directness, instinctiveness, and exoticism of primitive cultures, usually associated with the music of Stravinsky.
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Second Viennese School
The name given to the school of composition including Schoenberg and his students Berg and Webern.
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Sprechstimme
A type of singins halfway between singing and speech.
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Tone cluster
A chord in which a large number of adjacent pitches are sounded.
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Twelve-tone system
Devised by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920’s, a system of composition where each pitch in a composition is derived from a special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones.
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Whole-tone Scale
Used frequently by Debussy, a scale in which a whole step separates each tone.
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