Music 408 B - Analysis of Music Form

Fall 2015

LIST OF TERMS DISCUSSED IN CLASS

• Additive synthesis
• Aleatory music
• Chance music
• Combinatoriality (hexachordal)
• Class of compositions
• Concept Art (Music)
• Dadaism
• Danger music
• Domains technique
• Equal temperament
• Existentialism
• Fibonacci series of numbers; golden mean
• "Graphic" notation or "graphic pieces"
• Hauptstimme
• Heterophony
• I Ching
• Indeterminacy
• Integral or total serialism
• Just intonation
• Klangfarbenmelodie
• Microtonal music
• MIDI
• Minimalism
• Mode with limited transpositions
• "Momente" form
• Musique concrete
• Nebenstimme
• Non-retrogradable rhythm
• Partials/Overtones
• Pointillism
• Proportional notation
• Serial music
• Set forms
• Sound mass
• Sound parameters
• Spectral Music
• "Square root" method (Cage)
• Stochastic music, stochastic distributions
• Structuralism
• Textkomposition
• Tone-row music
• Tone-row matrix

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