Chapter 25: Radical Modernism

How did radical modernists think of their work in relation to that of the past?

they viewed their work as a continuing innovations of previous composers

What is the term that refers to music that is not best described as “tonal?”

post-tonal

COMPOSER (LAST NAME) had two goals for his music: to continue the tradition and to say something that had never been said before.

Schoenburg

Schoenberg disliked the term "atonal," so he called his music BLANK instead.

pantonal

What does your professor think of the following quote from the book? "Schoenberg came by his musical heritage honestly."

She thinks it's stupid

What is "developing variation?"

building upon the germ of an idea

What are the characteristics of expressionism?

unrelenting dissonance, exaggerated gestures, angular melodies

The vocal style known as BLANK follows rhythm precisely but approximates pitch.

sprechstimme

What are the four ways to use a tone row?

prime, inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion

Schoenberg's Piano Suite op. 25 is modeled on the keyboard works of BLANK (last name only).

Bach

Why did Schoenberg only use eight row forms through all of the movements of his Piano Suite Op. 25?

it was comparable to establishing unity through tonality

What word best describes the music of Wozzeck?

atonal

How does Wozzeck reflect musical traditions?

uses traditional forms like suite and sonata form

In a series of lectures, Webern argues what about twelve-tone music?

that it is inevitable and discovered instead of invented

What is a crucial part of the melody in Webern's Symphony, Op. 21?

the succession of timbres

BLANK create static blocks of sound in The Rite of Spring and are crucial to the sound of the piece.

Ostinatos

What was the most controversial aspect of The Rite of Spring?

the choreography

Stravinsky was the most prominent composer of the BLANK movement.

neoclassical

If a piece asserts a tonal center but does not follow the rules of traditional harmony, it is called BLANK.

neotonal

Name the three periods of Stravinsky.

Russian, neoclassical, serial

What did Bartók derive from the peasant tradition?

irregular meters and modal scales

In his experimental music, Ives changed some but preserved most of:

the traditional rules

Ives reversed the normal events in traditional forms so that the development happened first and themes appeared in their entirety only at the end. This is called BLANK (two words).

cumulative form

When was Ives's influence most strongly felt?

after World War II