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Music and art Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| music | organized sound |
| elements of music | pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre |
| pitch | high/low: scale, melody, tune, motive, theme |
| duration | Long/short: rhythm, pulse, beat, accent, meter |
| intensity | Loud/soft: crescendo, decrescendo, stress acccent |
| timbre | tone/color: bright, dark, shrill, dull, blaring, brassy, breahty, sharp, nasal, deep, throaty, faint |
| textures of music | Monophony, homophony, polyphony |
| Concerto | soloist or group of soloist with orchestra |
| symphony | for orchestra but can include small solos |
| tone poem | programmatic/descriptive orchestral |
| character piece | piano, or solo instrument with piano: short descriptive piece |
| Lied (Lieder) | German art song |
| Sonata Form | exposition, development, recapitulation |
| Programmatic | follows a program/narrative, tells a story |
| organic/synthetic | everything grows from one theme /motive, themes repeated in different movements tie the piece together |
| serial | planed "by the numbers" |
| musique concrete | manipulating recordings of of real-world sounds |
| 12 bar blues | three 4-measure phrases: I I I I/IV IV I I/V IV I I |
| aleatoric | "chance" music |
| minimalist | repeating one chord/motive extensively |
| Romantic/19th Century (early) | Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Berlioz |
| Romantic (late) | Dvorak, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Brahms |
| Romantic (opera) | Verdi, Puccini |
| Impressionist | Debussy |
| Nationalist | Stravinsky, Bartok, Ives, Copland |
| Expressionist/serial | Schoenberg |
| Aleatoric | Cage |
| Blues | Holiday |
| Jazz-influenced | Gershwin, Bernstein |
| End of Century/Minimalist | Reich, Higdon, Adams |
| American Musical Theater/Opera | Bernstein, Adams |
| Romantic | Passion, individualism, Macabre, greif, tragedy, unrequited love, innocence |