MUSIC 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Polytonality, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse
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Be sure that you are able to connect the list of composers, performers, and historical figures to the topical categories that they represent as well as to any compositions or institutions listed below. Terms/subjects/concepts from romantic period, include: textures: monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic tempo word painting (all historical periods) Jeannie with the light brown hair a-a-b-a melodic form. Understand the significance of the more important figures in terms of their associated styles, cultural contexts, and representative compositions, etc. Know terminology relating to the modern era (see below), and review the following, compositions, institutions, topics and concepts: selective orchestration. Les ballets russes polychord polyrhythmic texture tonality atonality (non-tonality) The unanswered question ear-stretching exercises tone clusters bitonality/polytonality. Band: selections sitar asymmetrical meters aleatory (chance) procedures. Be/moon turn the tides gently, gently prepared piano tape music musique concr te total serialism minimalism postminimalism the classical canon sound paintings.
