Across
- 4. the simultaneous presentation of distinct or conflicting rhythmic patterns, especially in African music
- 5. an electronic apparatus that generates sounds for electronic music
- 6. extremely complex, totally controlled music in which the twelve-tone principle is extended to elements of music other than pitch
- 8. a late 20th century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments
- 9. a scale used in blues, jazz, and related styles that differs in several pitches from the diatonic scale customary in classical music
- 10. music composed with natural sounds recorded electronically
Down
- 1. a type of contemporary music in which certain elements, such as the order of the notes or their pitches, are not specified by the composer but are left to chance
- 2. new music that refers to styles older than modernism
- 3. term describing a composer's use of style that is not his usual manner; can also be used negatively to refer to the composer's unoriginality in drawing from other composers' styles
- 7. especially in rap, the extraction, repetition, and manipulation of short excerpts from other popular songs, etc.