Music 201- Music Theory III

Fall 2020

LIST OF TERMS DISCUSSED IN CLASS

• Additive synthesis
• Aleatory music
• Amplitude
• Chance music
• Combinatoriality (hexachordal)
• Computer-assisted Composition or Algorithmic Composition
• Concept Art (Music)
• Dadaism
• Domains technique
• Equal temperament
• electronic music (elektronische Musik)
• Existentialism
• Fibonacci series of numbers; golden mean
• Frequency
• Frequency modulation (FM)
• Granular synthesis
• "Graphic" notation or "graphic pieces"
• Happenings
• Hauptstimme
• Heterophony
• I Ching
• Indeterminacy
• Integral or total serialism
• Just intonation
• Klangfarbenmelodie
• Microtonal music
• MIDI
• Minimalism
• Mode with limited transpositions
• Musique concrete
• Nebenstimme
• Non-retrogradable rhythm
• Partials/Overtones
• Pointillism
• Proportional notation
• Serial music
• Sound mass
• Spectral Music
• "Square root" method (Cage)
• Stochastic music, stochastic distributions
• Structuralism
• Textkomposition
• Tone-row music
• Tone-row matrix

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