MODULE 1

FURTHER LISTENING

The following list provides suggestions for further listening to music by composers studied in
this chapter or related to the styles and techniques we have studied (if possible, listen while
following the score):

1. Debussy, Preludes, Book I (complete)

2. Debussy, La mer
3. Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole
4. Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (complete)
5. Stravinsky, Les noces
6. Stravinsky, L’histoire du soldat

TERMS FOR REVIEW

pitch centricity
pedal
ostinato
diatonic collection
Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Ionian, and Locrian
pentatonic collection
anhemitonic scale
impressionism, symbolism
pitch, pitch class, pitch-class set
pitch space, pitch-class space
motivic cell
prime form
quintal chords, quartal chords
added-note chord
planing, diatonic planing, chromatic planing
stratification, layering, interruption and continuation, juxtaposition, synthesis
polycentricity, polytonality
rhythm, meter
pulses, beats
metric accents, downbeat, upbeat, anacrusis
symmetrical or divisive meters
asymmetrical or additive meters
rhythmic accents, agogic accent, dynamic accent
syncopation, hemiola
rhythmic and metric irregularities
meter changes (mixed meters), metric displacement, polyrhythm, polymeter