QUIZ BEE

• Impressionism


  A style of music and painting that avoided definite forms or obvious statements, instead highlighted suggestion and atmosphere
• Claude Monet is a famous impressionistic artist created the Impression, Sunrise painting
• Ninth chord is the extended chord with the seventh and the ninth notes added from the root note (or tonic).
• Whole-Tone Scale is derived from non-Western countries. This is a pattern constructed entirely of whole-tone intervals. This is not formed from the black or white keys of the piano keys alone but by a combination of both.
• Parallel or Gliding Chords is the interval between the lowest and the highest notes forming a chord. Forming of notes depends on the preferred intervals of the composers.
• Claude Debussy introduced new chord combinations, whole-tone chords, parallel and bitonal chords, chromaticism, dissonances , and interesting rhythm and scales.
• Claude Debussy's one of famous compositions is Suite Bergamasque. It contains one of the most popular pieces nowadays, Clair De Lune (Moonlight) .
• Expressionism was a highly expressive style in art that sought to express disturbed conditions of the mind. It was the answer of the Germans in reaction to French Impressionism. It is also better performed with instruments than sung.
• Pablo Picasso's one of his famous masterpiece is his Three Musicians in 1921. it is of Synthetic Cubism style.
• Three Musicians was created using oil on canvas, and made of flat, lively colors, and abstract shapes. A clarinetist, a guitarist, and a singer holding sheets of music are the subjects of this painting.
• Pelleas et Melisande is a masterpiece which made Debussy more famous since it was his only opera composition.
• Appoggiatura: a grace note prefixed to a principal note and printed in small character.
• Joseph Maurice Ravel is a French post-impressionist composer, conductor, and pianist. Some of his famous works are Daphnis et Chloe, Rapsodie Espagnole, and Bolero.
• Bolero- is a one-movement orchestral piece where the theme is played persistently by various instruments. A slow, romantic piece of music, the piece has an opening rhythm on the snare drum, with rhythm that continues persistently throughout the work.
• polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns in a single piece of music.
• polymeter is a combined two or more meters. this technique uses irregular or asymmetrical meters, such as five or seven beats to a measure.
• polyharmony was created through the composers' inclusion of additional notes in the triads or chords, resulting in a more dissonant sound.
• polytonality uses two or more keys together. it gave uniqueness to Expressionistic music. it abandoned tonality called atonality.
• atonality was much more of an innovation that polytonality, since it entirely eliminated the structure of key signatures.
• arnold schoenberg began studying violin at age of eight. Years after, he composed Transfigured Night, a string sextet that he later ochestrated. He also introduced the method of composition called twelve-tone technique.
• twelve-tone technique: is the arrangement of twelve chromatic pitches in series, which provides the melodic and harmonic basis for a music composition. The notes are numbered by using the corresponding number of half-steps from the first note in the tone row. These numbers are called pitch classes.
• Prime is the original composition of the twelve-tone series.
• Inversion is the inverted transposition from the given prime.
• Retrograde is the backward transposition from the last note of the prime.
• Retrograde Inversion is the backward and upside-down transposition from the last note of the prime.
• Igor Stravinsky - Russian composer who wrote The Rite of Spring, a piece that was considered scandalous and controversial.
• The Rite of Spring is a piece scored for a large orchestra. The percussive use of dissonance, polyrhythms, and polytonality made him known as the destructive modernist par excellence.