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Modernist/Modernism
“a special self-consciousness,” and artists and intellectuals who “insisted on” anti-traditionalism
avant-garde
military term repurposed to describe the activity of radical artists and thinkers
Impressionism
the modernist movement in which light-capturing techniques are developed (“realists”) starting in the 1870s; inspired by French painters
Symbolism
unrealistic movement after impressionism in which words freely symbolized/signified
Expressionism
German movement which sought to express the most extreme human feelings by divorcing art from everyday literalness
diatonic scale
Scale of the octave's 8 notes; foundation in Western music
pentatonic scale
5 note scale playable on the black keys of a piano (derived from folk song and Asian music)
Whole-tone scale
Divides the octave into 6 equal parts w/ whole step intervals
Octatonic scale
Fits eight pitches into the octave by alternating whole and half steps
Serialism
the use of the “new language for music” invented by Schoenberg in the 1920s
Consonance
when pitches sound stable and at rest in combination
Dissonance
when pitches sound tense in combination- sound like they need to resolve to consonance, but they now were not always resolved
Atonal
Describes music with no tonal center
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