Ruth Crawford – Flashcards
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How did Crawford develop her compositional skills?
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She imposed strict limitations on her compositions.
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Ruth Crawford's music is an example of
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Modernism
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Crawford created "mixed accents" by
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Varying the number of notes per group
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Which traditional element of Western music was deliberately left out of Piano Study in Mixed Accents?
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Harmony
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Piano Study in Mixed Accents is an example of
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Atonality
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Which style of composition did Arnold Schoenberg develop in the 1920s?
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12-tone composition
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A series of notes on which a twelve-tone composition is based called a(n)
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row
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Crawford gives her piece shape by changing what melodic element?
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register
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The rough shape of Piano Study in Mixed Accents is an
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symmetrical arch
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Piano Study in Mixed Accents is divided into five brief sections by
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silences
