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Bela Bartók was famous for recording what kind of music?
eastern european folk music
What is the name of a piano that has weights or paper attached to the strings?
prepared piano
What is music called that is determined by means such as rolling dice or drawing playing cards?
liberation of sound
What was Ravel’s nickname and why?
Swiss Watchmaker, very precise and perfectionist
What system did Arnold Schoenberg create?
twelve tone system
How many tones are used in a row of serialism?
twelve
What style was Debussy’s music?
impressionist
Who did Alban Berg study with?
Arnold Schoenberg
simultaneously playing two or more rhythms
polyrhythm
combo of two or more chords played at the same time
polychord
six notes, each a whole step apart
whole-tone scale
based on five notes, found in javanese gamelon music
pentatonic scale
a emphasis on atmosphere, tone color, and fluidity, very dream like
impressionism
"new" classical style, emotional restraint, balance, and clarity
neoclassicism
focus on intense, subjective emotion; themes: madness and death
expressionism
absence of key
atonality
speech song
sprechstimme
using sound & rhythm to evoke primal feelings
primitivism
a rapid slide up or down a scale
glissando
two keys used simultaneously
bitonality
more than two keys used simultaneously
polytonality
chord comprised of tones only a half or whole step apart
tone cluster
chord comprised of tones that are each a fourth apart
fourth chord
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