twentieth-century compositions that imitate rhythms, melodies, modes, and techniques of music of indigenous people, or music created or produced naturally in a particular region with its complex rhythms, harmonies, melodies and forms
Primitivism
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Avaz
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Iranian modal system, made up of twelve modes, divided into seven principal modes and five secondary modes
Thematic development
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the compositional process by which a theme is transformed by modifying its melodic outline, its harmony, or its rhythm
Thematic transformation
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the compositional process by which a theme is transformed by modifying its melodic outline, its harmony, or its rhythm
Aboriginal music
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the music of the indigenous people's of Australia
Artificial harmonics
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high notes produced on a stringed instrument where the strings is stopped lightly halfway along its sounding length
Ecclesiastical modes
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church modes
Exoticism
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music in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are intended to evoke the atmosphere of far off lands or ancient tim…
Folk elements
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introduction of folk melodies, rhythms or characteristic harmonic progressions into orchestral or chamber music