MUSI 1001 Study Guide - Ballets Russes, Major Chord, The Rite Of Spring
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Lack of cohesion: earlier periods more stylistically uniform, twentieth century. Multiple styles of musical expression: atonal, twelve-tone, electronic music, chance, neo-classic, minimalism. Composers rarely maintained a single style, but shifted between them. Working at the same time, and within the same composer at some points. May have many styles in one particular piece. A continuous search for new means of musical expression: rejected german romanticism, characterized by distortion and dissonance, increasing rift between composers and the audience (early) twentieth-century musical style. Used octave displacement: avoiding a simple interval for a more distant one an octave above or below, a means of avoiding conjunct movement, chromatic and dissonant. No longer needs to resolve to a consonance. Can move to another dissonance: triad reduced in importance as the basic element of harmony. New chords created by superimposing more thirds. The more thirds included in the chord, the greater the dissonance.
