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Music Theory IV Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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Music Theory IV Final Exam Study Guidewith Complete Solutions
5 Principal Techniques of Music Concrete? - ANSWER-Splicing
Playing Tape Backward
Varying speed and pitch of tape
Tape loops
Tape delay
Cell Notation - ANSWER-breaks a piece down into small sections that are performed or
improvised upon, one at a time
Characteristics of early 20th century music (both Primitivism and Neoclassicism) -
ANSWER-Pandiatonicism - uses keys in non-traditional ways
Polytonality - using multiple keys
Dual modality - using more than one mode at a time
Shifted Tonality - sudden change of tonality
Free Tonality - no mode or key
Polychords - Multiple chords sounded at same time
Quartal and Quintal
Clusters
Pretty Please Don't Sing. Four People Quit Choir.
Composers associated with TOTAL Serialism - ANSWER-Pierre Boulez, Milton Babbit,
Olivier Messiaen
Computer / electronic music - 3 types - ANSWER-Musique Concrete - manipulated
sounds form real world
Electronic Music - oscillators, pulse generators
Live performance with tape - like a looping pedal
Computer music was... - ANSWER-Initially pioneered by German composers who
generated sounds with equipment previously found in physics laboratories: oscillators,
pulse generators, and ring modulators
Extended techniques and 5 examples - ANSWER-Music that explores unconventional
ways of performing
- Western instruments in unusual way
- Unfamiliar or new instruments
-Non-instruments such as sirens or auto horns
-Additional apparatus such as amplifier
-Extended vocal techniques like clicking, humming, whispering
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