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44 relations: Alban Berg, Alois Hába, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Atonality, Attacco, Cell (music), Counterpoint, Deryck Cooke, Erwartung, Exposition (music), Figure (music), Formula composition, Fred Lerdahl, Fugue, Generative music, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, John Tyrrell (musicologist), Karel Goeyvaerts, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Leitmotif, Leonard Stein, Melody, Motif (music), Music, Musical composition, Musical form, Part (music), Period (music), Phrase (music theory), Pierre Boulez, Polyphonie X, Punkte, Resolution (music), Rudolph Reti, Sonata for Two Pianos (Goeyvaerts), Sonata form, Stanley Sadie, Structures (Boulez), Subject (music), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Thematic transformation, Transposition (music), Twelve-tone technique.
Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.
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Alois Hába
Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher.
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Anton Webern
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (von) Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter.
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Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
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Attacco
Attacco, in music, indicates a short phrase, treated as a point of imitation; and employed, either as the subject of a fugue, as a subordinate element introduced for the purpose of increasing the interest of its development, as a leading feature in a motet, madrigal, full anthem, or other choral composition, or as a means of relieving the monotony of an otherwise too homogeneous part-song.
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Cell (music)
The 1957 Encyclopédie Laroussequoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990).
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Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
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Deryck Cooke
Deryck Cooke (14 September 1919 – 27 October 1976) was a British musician, musicologist and broadcaster.
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Erwartung
(Expectation), Op. 17, is a one-act monodrama in four scenes by Arnold Schoenberg to a libretto by.
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Exposition (music)
In musical form and analysis, exposition is the initial presentation of the thematic material of a musical composition, movement, or section.
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Figure (music)
A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring.
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Formula composition
Formula composition is a serially derived technique encountered principally in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, involving the projection, expansion, and Ausmultiplikation of either a single melody-formula, or a two- or three-voice contrapuntal construction (sometimes stated at the outset).
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Fred Lerdahl
Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (born March 10, 1943, in Madison, Wisconsin) is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on musical grammar and cognition, rhythmic theory, pitch space, and cognitive constraints on compositional systems.
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Fugue
In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition.
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Generative music
Generative music is a term popularized by Brian Eno to describe music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system.
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Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Jean-Jacques Nattiez (born December 30, 1945, Amiens, France) is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.
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Karel Goeyvaerts
Karel Goeyvaerts (8 June 1923 – 3 February 1993) was a Belgian composer.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Leitmotif
A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase"Kennedy (1987), Leitmotiv associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
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Leonard Stein
Leonard David Stein (December 1, 1916 – June 23 or 25, 2004) was a musicologist, pianist, conductor, university teacher, and influential in promoting contemporary music on the American West Coast.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Motif (music)
In music, a motif (also motive) is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity".
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.
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Musical form
The term musical form (or musical architecture) refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music; it describes the layout of a composition as divided into sections.
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Part (music)
A part (or voice) generally refers to a single strand or melody of music within a larger ensemble or a polyphonic musical composition.
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Period (music)
In music, period refers to certain types of recurrence in small-scale formal structure.
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Phrase (music theory)
In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.
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Polyphonie X
Polyphonie X is a composition by Pierre Boulez for eighteen instruments divided into seven groups, written in 1950–51.
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Punkte
Punkte (Points) is an orchestral composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, given the work number ½ in his catalogue of works.
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Resolution (music)
Resolution in western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one).
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Rudolph Reti
Rudolph Reti, also Réti (translit; November 27, 1885 – February 7, 1957), was a musical analyst, composer and pianist.
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Sonata for Two Pianos (Goeyvaerts)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1950–51), also called simply Opus 1 or Nummer 1, is a chamber-music work by Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts, and a seminal work in the early history of European serialism.
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Sonata form
Sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation.
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Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
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Structures (Boulez)
Structures I (1952) and Structures II (1961) are two related works for two pianos, composed by the French composer Pierre Boulez.
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Subject (music)
In music, a subject is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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Thematic transformation
Thematic transformation (also known as thematic metamorphosis or thematic development) is a musical technique in which a leitmotif, or theme, is developed by changing the theme by using permutation (transposition or modulation, inversion, and retrograde), augmentation, diminution, and fragmentation.
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Transposition (music)
In music transposition refers to the process, or operation, of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.
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Twelve-tone technique
Twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and associated with the "Second Viennese School" composers, who were the primary users of the technique in the first decades of its existence.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_(music)
