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What is the other term for aleatory music?
Chance Music
It is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
Music genres/Musical genre/Musical style
It has no tonal center or underlying key. What characteristics of Expressionism is being described?
Atonality
It is a type of musical scale, or a group of eight successive pitches, with no pitch skipped and the first and last tone repeated.
Modality
The music of 20th century can be perfectly described as _______________ simply because the musical styles in this period provide listeners wide range to choose from.
Eclectic
What does Latin word "alea" means in the word aleatory music?
Dice
He was a student of Expressionist Arnold Schoenberg. In 1939, he experimented and worked on "prepared piano" by inserting objects such as screws, wood, and paper between the piano strings to produce percussive sound effects.
John Cage
Who is the father of Electronic music?
Edgard Varese
It is the process of creating and producing music with the use of computers in synthesizing digital audio signals.
Electronic music
This musical style combines the elements of Classicism, such as clarity and balance with the new trend of the 20th century.
Neoclassicism
He was an ethnomusicologist who focuses his study in music in a socio-cultural context. He was regarded as the most influential modern composer of 20th century.
Bela Bartok
It is the used of materials from European ethnic groups.
Ethnicism
The musical elements and characteristics of Primitivism music are basic, well-defined, and plain. It is inspired by different folk music from different regions of Europe.
Primitivism
What are the four basic way to read the Twelve tone matrix?
Original/Prime Form, Retrograde, Inversion and Retrograde Inversion
He composed the song "Perriot Lunnaire"?
Arnold Schoenberg
The ___________________ is one of Stravinsky's popular production which nearly triggered a riot upon its premiere in 1913.
The Rite of Spring
The term __________________ expresses strong emotions such as anxiety, anger, and a feeling of isolation.
Expressionism
Who created the twelve tone system or dodecaphony?
Arnold Schoenberg
Who used the whole tone method in his composition?
Claude Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Claude Debussy
He created compositions whose style is characterized mainly by Innovative but not atonal style of harmony.
Maurice Ravel
It is the leaps or intervals of a note to another note.
Disjunct Progression
It is the alternating upward and downward movement of the melody.
Melodic contour
The term "impressionism" in music was borrowed from what field of visual arts?
Painting
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