complex, totally controlled music where the twelve-tone principle is extended to elements of music other than pitch, for example, rhythm
Total serialism
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Unmeasured music
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music where the performer is free to determine the rhythm, free rhythm
Disjunct
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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…
Serialism
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A compositional method where various musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics and tone colour may be put in a fixed o…
Absolute pitch
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perfect pitch, a strong conscious or unconscious memory of musical pitch
Deceptive Cadence
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A chord progression where the dominant chord is followed by a chord other than the tonic chord In the tonality of C major, a…
Dodecaphony
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a harmonic system employing the twelve tone principle of composition giving equal status to all twelve chromatic notes
Elements of a Musical Score
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See Elements of a Musical Score in Elements of a Musical Score
Flag
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line(s) extending from the right side of a stem of a note. Indicating an eighth note or smaller See Flag in Elements of a Mus…