Study Guide: Midterm MUS 229: Modern Music Dr.

Vanessa Rogers The midterm will consist of: 1. Terms and definitions 2. Short answers In order to study successfully for this quiz, you will need to cull all important terms and ideas from your class notes. These would be terms that I would have written up on the board with their definitions. Please also look for the names of important people and events in history, and make sure that you know how they contributed to music. The exam will focus mainly on the material we learned in class, but concepts from the readings will also be queried. Review the questions from the listening quizzes and homework assignments to make sure that you recall the salient points about various composers and movements in music history. You will also want to review all of your assigned reading assignments for this class. Take away one or two main ideas from each. Some possible terms (*NOTE: This is not a complete list!): -isms (Impressionism, Expressionism, Pointillism, Transcendentalism, Neoclassicism, Modernism, Surrealism, etc.) Avant-garde Russian realism Sprechstimme Extended techniques Furniture Music Polytonality Second Viennese School Atonality Blues characteristics Nadia Boulanger Harmon mutes Rotation (hint: Seeger) Rock and roll/country/rhythm and blues characteristics Contrefact Non-retrogradeable rhythms Fin de sicle Decadent movement Octatonic, whole tone, pentatonic scales Sergei Diaghilev Les Six cante jondo aggregate harmonies and the Mystic chord Muddle Instead of Music ** know which composers were associated with each of the above terms!