musc test #3
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- Leitmotif
- Theme, a tune, used for a character or an emotion.
- "Idee fixe"
- Musical idea that returns over and over.
- Absolute Music
- Non-program music.
- Program Music
- Instrumental Music associated with a story, poem, idea, etc. During Romantic Period, usually for a piano or orchestra.
- Expressionism
- Attempts to explore inner feelings rather depicting outward appearances.
- Swing
- Uneven 8th Notes.
- Twentieth Century
- (1900-2000) Themes included Violence and Progress
- Jazz
- Developed around 1900 in New Orleans.
- Improvisation
- Created on the spot, resembles themes and variations.
- Atonality/atonal music
- Music that has no key center.
- Minimalism
- Music that has a repetitive use o the same short idea.
- Rythm section
- Drums, bass and either a piano or guitar in Jazz
- Aleatoric music
- Chance music that includes random elements.
- Bayreuth
- Town
- Serialism
- Technique where notes are put in a set order.
- Romantic Period
- (1820-1900)
- Impressionism
- Attempt to capture in music what impressionist painters did in visual.
- Twelve-tone technique
- Type of serialism using all 12-tones of the musical scale as equals without a key.
- Solo Instrument (jazz)
- Played melody ovr top of rythm. (Saxophone, Vibraphone, Piano)
- Blue notes
- 3rd, 5th, and 7th scale steps lowered used in Jazz.