5.20 Music and Modernism

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Modernist/Modernism

“a special self-consciousness,” and artists and intellectuals who “insisted on” anti-traditionalism

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avant-garde

military term repurposed to describe the activity of radical artists and thinkers

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Impressionism

the modernist movement in which light-capturing techniques are developed (“realists”) starting in the 1870s; inspired by French painters

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Symbolism

unrealistic movement after impressionism in which words freely symbolized/signified

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Expressionism

German movement which sought to express the most extreme human feelings by divorcing art from everyday literalness

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diatonic scale

Scale of the octave's 8 notes; foundation in Western music

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pentatonic scale

5 note scale playable on the black keys of a piano (derived from folk song and Asian music)

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Whole-tone scale

Divides the octave into 6 equal parts w/ whole step intervals

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Octatonic scale

Fits eight pitches into the octave by alternating whole and half steps

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Serialism

the use of the “new language for music” invented by Schoenberg in the 1920s

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Consonance

when pitches sound stable and at rest in combination

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Dissonance

when pitches sound tense in combination- sound like they need to resolve to consonance, but they now were not always resolved

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Atonal

Describes music with no tonal center