Musical Styles

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Across
  1. 1. Instrumental music associated with a nonmusical idea
  2. 5. Schoenberg's vocal technique in which a pitch is half sung, half spoken
  3. 10. Composers were attracted to the textures and forms of baroque and classical music
  4. 12. a post-bebop jazz with free-flowing, improvised playing
  5. 14. Late 1960s jazz influenced by rock's amplification of instruments, short riffs, and even beat subdivisions
  6. 15. Music free of extra-musical references or ideas
  7. 17. Music in which some aspect is decided by performers or someone else other than the composer; chance music
  8. 18. A unifying technique in long musical works in which thematic material recurs in succeeding movements
  9. 22. The first jazz to be recorded and the root of all jazz styles
  10. 23. A restrained and controlled jazz style from the 1940s.
  11. 25. Lacking a recognizable tonal center
  12. 26. A big band jazz style popular for dancing in the 1930s and 1940s
  13. 27. Artistic school of early twentieth century that attempted to represent the psychological and emotional experience of modern humanity
  14. 29. A piano with the sound altered by the insertion of bolts, screws, pencils, cloth, and paper between the strings
Down
  1. 2. Very current, modern, experimental
  2. 3. A series of art songs that tell a story
  3. 4. A style characterized by an emphasis on mood and atmosphere, sensuous tone colors, elegance and beauty of sound; Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
  4. 6. Schoenberg's system of arranging the twelve tones of the chromatic scale in a particular order
  5. 7. Phrases sung by a leader alternate with phrases sung by chorus; often found in West African
  6. 8. A melancholy characterized by AAB lyrics, twelve bar harmonic pattern, and frequent ue of blue notes
  7. 9. The use of frenzied, irregular rhythms and percussive effects to evoke a feeling of primitive power; Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
  8. 11. Late twentieth-century music that returns music to its simplest, most basic elements; characterized by a steady beat and gradually changing repeating figures
  9. 13. Dramas told through a series of songs often with spoken dialogue between
  10. 16. music produced by magnetic tape, synthesizer, or computer
  11. 19. and African American folk songs
  12. 20. A jazz style that emphasizes small ensembles playing very active and complex music
  13. 21. Improvisatory music based on African American traditions
  14. 24. A composed music of the 1890s, usually for piano, with ragged rhythms or syncopation; Scott Joplin
  15. 28. A jazz style based on the original hot jazz in New Orleans