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Dissonance - was used more often and freely; made music sound weird Atonality - no key; rejected framework of keys; used all 12 notes equally Polytonality - having multiple tones Expressionism - 'bad' sounding music through use of dissonance, and unusual instrument and voice effects; music was no longer about being beautiful but rather as an art piece 12-tone method - developed by Schoenberg; based on tone row Tone row - a specific ordering of all 12 notes; repeated throughout the piece Inversion - upside down Retrograde - backwards Sprechstimme - a mixture of singing and talking at the same time; doesn't use regular notes, but rather the author gives a range Polyrhythm - multiple rhythms Serialism - used 12 tone technology to determine all aspects of the music; music was based on mathematical concepts, not on how it sounded; it was totally controlled and organized Chance/aleatoric music - created by John Cage; the composer determines music through random methods (dice rolling, flipping a coin)Prepared piano - created by John Cage; performer inserts objects in specific areas determined by the composer; in the same place every time Minimalism - 1) has a steady pulse 2) is tonal (notes make sense 3) is repetitive Arnold Schoenberg - developed 12 tone method & sprechstimme; one of the first to embrace dissonance & atonal music; Berg studied under him Igor Stravinsky - composed the music for "Rite of Spring"; people were offended by the music and dancers, caused a huge uproar at the premier Alban Berg - wrote Wozzak an expressionist opera George Gershwin - wrote Porgy and Beth, a folk opera; was heavily involved in American pop music (jazz, broadway), not just art music Charles Ives - American, used American folk tunes in his works Aaron Copland - wrote Appalachian Spring using Theme & Variation form and based it on a Shaker folk tune Bela Bartók - Hungarian folk music scholar; recorded people across his country singing their music to preserve the language and music John Cage - created chance music and the prepared piano; had a lot of experimental/unusual music & instrumentsLeonard Bernstein - wrote West Side Story Pierrot Lunaire - Schoenberg, expressionism & sprechstimme with female singer