GradeBuddy MUS-T351. 1st EditionTerms and topics:Exam 1 Study Guide•Modernism•Contextual structure vs. syntactical structure•Non-developmental form (mosaic-like organization, additive process)•Pitch centricity vs. tonalityModernity (The emergence of the modern identity from about1500 - up ) Modernism- c. 1900 - ?Early modernist Undoubtedly modernist ("protomodernist").Debussy StravinskyMahler SchoenbergStrauss BergWebern•What is the relationship between art and society?◦What is society going to look like in the future?◦If society is going to look diferent in the future, then art needs to look diferent...so what is art going to look like in the future?•Ezra Pound creates a modernist manifesto..."Make it new."◦The desire to make music new; redoing the chore values of music‣Chore values of Classical Music: the period, order, balance‣Chore values of Romantic Music: drama, new treatment of dissonances,more chromatic harmonies going beyond the forms of Classical music.‣Chore Modernist impulse: to take all of this...and question some of it.•SYNTAX:◦In English, syntax is found in a sentence.‣Ex. "The red dog ran."◦Every sentence contains:‣Elements of vocabulary‣Usage/ordering◦You can take the elements of vocabulary and re-order them to make something diferent, OR you can substitute in new elements of vocabulary to the change the meaning of the sentence.‣Ex. "The orange cat ran."◦In music, you can take the rhythmic element and change it, or you can take the tonal element and change it...in Debussy , what elements of earlier music is he keeping, what elements is he changing, etc.◦Contextual structure vs. syntactical structure◦"Contextual"- you can hear the context in which the composers harmonic language was created, not necessarily explained in
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