Minimalism
Electronic music:
Atonal music: A piece of music that is played by a load of random Notes, not in a specific key.
A musical example of Atonal music
Aleatoric music: music of chance, 1950's 60's
Serialism: using every single note in an octive, uses the whole of the chromatic scale. All the notes are it in any random order and you had to use all the notes and they could be used in an order. Schoenberg the inventor of serialism. Play it forwards and backwards (inverted) then you play it in retrograde, retrograde is where every interval between notes would be inverted.
All about breaking rules
and changing everything about music. Making it completely different to
classical. Beethoven started it all.
Romantic opera placed emphasis on the
imagination and emotions. It started to give more dimension to extreme emotions.
Opera had become a marriage of the arts, a musical drama, full of glorious song
and costume. From its conception during the baroque period to the maturity of
the romantic period, it was the medium through which tales and myths were
revisited and history was retold. Composers even used this expressive means to
display nationalism. Composers used elements of folk music to express their
cultural identity. They can go on forever like 3 hours. Any form of disaster
can go on in the piece. It's ENORMOUS big people, lots of brass instruments,
very dramatic. Gods and mythical stuff. 'it ain't over till the fat lady sings'
this saying comes into romantic opera.
Dissonance: clashy sounds.notes
from outside the key being used. In order for composers to be able to make
music sound full of emotion. Broke all the classical period rules as dissonance
was not allowed. (a musical example of Dissonance)
Virtuoso: a performer that excels in technical
ability. Most complicated, the best and so amazing at playing an instrument,
can use every ounce of the instrument, as fast, slow and as hard or soft as
that instrument can be played. Liszt. Composer and pianist.(a musical example of a Virtuoso)
Tone poems: having a
non-musical object and a composer going and writing a piece of music to
describe that object, eg. A painting or a story. (a musical example of a Tone Poem)
Programme music: similar
to tone poems. No singing it is just instrumental, based in a story or piece of
writing, difference to tone poems, is programme music can go on for a lot
longer. (a musical example of programme music)
Impressionism: creates an
atmosphere of a music, without the use of words. (musical example of Impressionism)
Romantic symphony: can
last a long time 20-40 mins, the orchestra became about 60 people, they didn't
follow a specific pattern, they didn't follow any of the rules, it most of the
prices had more an 4 movement they just added them in if they wanted more. Much
larger orchestras and were more expressive. (a musical example of a romantic symphony)
