Terms to Know 3

Once again, I have come up with the following list of “terms to know” to help you prepare for next week’s exam. This list comes from the top of my head and by no means is meant to be comprehensive. I can’t guarantee that all of the terms you will need to know for the test will appear on this list (but most of them will). Instead, use it as a guide to help you make sure that you understand some of the most important terms that we have studied in this part of the semester.

One additional note: Any works discussed in the book or in class – especially in the context of a listening guide for a piece which appears on your CD set – are not listed below, but you should know them.

Materials of Music (General terms that apply to all 20th Century genres)

Atonality Polyharmony Syncopation Improvisation Polymeter Synthesizer Polychords Polytonality Tonality

Modern Classical

Aaron Copland John Cage Alban Berg Klangfarbenmelodie Alexander Scriabin Krzysztof Penderecki Anton Webern Kurt Weill Arnold Schoenberg Leonard Bernstein Arvo Pärt Leoš Janáček Barbara Kolb Les Six Béla Bartók Louise Talma Benjamin Britten Manuel de Falla Carl Orff Mario Davidovsky Charles Ives Maurice Ravel Claude Debussy Milton Babbitt Darius Milhaud Minimalism David Del Tredici Musique concrète Dmitri Shostakovich Nadia Boulanger Elliott Carter Ned Rorem Emancipation of the Dissonance Neoclassicism Erik Satie New Romanticism (or Neoromanticism) Ernest Bloch Paul Hindemith Expressionism Paul Lansky Francis Poulenc Pauline Oliveros Gamelan Philip Glass George Crumb Pierre Boulez George Gershwin Ralph Vaughan Williams George Perle Samuel Barber György Ligeti Serge Diaghilev Harry Partch Sergei Prokofiev Henry Brant Sergei Rachmaninoff Henry Cowell Serialism (and Total serialism) Igor Stravinsky Sprechstimme Impressionism Steve Reich Indeterminacy Thea Musgrave Isaac Albéniz Tone row Jean Sibelius Twelve-tone Method Joan Tower Vocalise John Adams Zoltán Kodály

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Avant-garde jazz John Lewis Bebop Joseph “King” Oliver Big band Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Billie Holiday Miles Davis Blues New-age jazz Bud Powell Ragtime Charlie “Bird” Parker Riff Chorus Scat singing Cool jazz Scott Joplin Dixieland (New Orleans Jazz) Sidney Bechet Dizzy Gillespie Swing Duke Ellington Thelonius Monk Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton Third stream jazz Free jazz West Coast jazz Fusion Wynton Marsalis Gunther Schuller

Popular Music/Rock and Roll/Broadway/Film Music

Acid rock John Philip Sousa Art rock John Williams Andrew Lloyd Webber Joseph Carl Breil The Beach Boys Hans Zimmer The Beatles (Paul, Ringo, John and George) Latin rock Bernard Herrmann Leitmotifs Bob Dylan Lerner and Lowe British Invasion Lorenz Hart Bruce Springsteen Madonna The Byrds Max Steiner Chuck Berry Michael Jackson Claude-Michel Schonberg MIDI Danny Elfman Miklós Rózsa Diana Ross and the Supremes Motown Disco Music video Dmitri Tiomkin New wave Elvis Presley Operetta Elmer Bernstein Oscar Hammerstein Erich Wolfgang Korngold Rachel Portman Folk rock Rap Gangsta rap Reggae Gilbert and Sullivan Rhythm and blues Global pop Richard Rodgers Grunge rock Rolling Stones The Jackson Five Soft rock James Horner Source music Jazz rock Stephen Foster Jerome Kern Stephen Sondheim Jerry Goldsmith Trance music Jerry Lee Lewis Underscore Jim Morrison The Who Jimi Hendrix Woodstock John Corigliano

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