MUSE 155 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Girl I Left Behind, Tone Row, The British Grenadiers
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Off the beaten path, jazz, ragtime, blues and jazz, film music. Music that lacks a tonal center or key. Atonal music is not diatonic, modal or in any way related to traditional western harmony. Expressionism: backlash against romanticism, release of the confines of tonal hierarchy in music, arnold schoenberg (1874 1951, austrian composer, conductor, teacher, artist. Expressionism: a reaction to romanticism and response to french. Impressionism a german style of music featuring hyper expressive musical language with large leaps, dissonant harmony and rhythmic complexity requiring an emphasis on the percussion section of an orchestra. Atonality and serialism (12-tone): also known as 12 tone method. A formula for composing music based on an arrangement of a tone row melody and modification of that tone row. Though highly organized, serialism often sounds random and chaotic. A style of singing invented by arnold schoenberg where the vocal melody is spoken on pitches rather than sung.
