Materials and Techniques

What term is used to describe a six-note collection derived from the juxtaposition of two augmented triads at the interval of a half step?

Which diatonic modes are identical to the major and natural minor scales, respectively?

What term refers to a chordal sonority derived from stacked 2nds?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four characteristics of a pandiatonic passage mentioned in the text?

What term, essentially synonymous with parallelism, is frequently used to describe the parallel movement of chords in twentieth-century music as a means of obscuring functional progression?

What type of planing involves parallel movement of vertical sonorities whose quality is determined by the prevailing diatonic scale?

The octatonic scale is derived from the juxtaposition of what two traditional tonal sonorities?

A polychord, which consists of two or more chords from different harmonic areas sounded simultaneously, is made up of components called what?

What term refers to the simultaneous use of two or more key centers?

Which five-note scale, likened to the pattern of the black keys on a piano, contains no half steps or tritones?

What is the term for a collection of three or more adjacent pitches in secundal relationship?

Which term describes a musical composition that lacks an aurally perceivable meter?

What is the name of the technique, associated with Olivier Messiaen, that creates rhythmic irregularity by adding a note value or rest to a rhythmic figure?

What term, also called metric modulation, is used to describe an immediate change in tempo created by equating a particular note value to another proportional note value?

A nonretrogradable rhythm, a term used by Messiaen, is essentially what kind of structure?

In the modern use of isorhythm, what are the terms for the repeated rhythmic figure and the repeated pitch sequence?

What is the term for the simultaneous use of two or more strikingly contrasted tempos?

The Lydian-Mixolydian scale is a hybrid scale that may have resulted from the juxtaposition of what two chords?

Which of the following describes a split-third chord?

Which diatonic mode is described as lacking a true dominant chord?

What are the three types of pentatonic scales shown in Example 26-5?

The minor pentatonic scale is equivalent to which mode of the major pentatonic scale?

What is the only tertian triad possible within the whole-tone scale's pitch collection?

The term used to describe the simultaneous presentation of two or more strikingly contrasted rhythmic streams is cross rhythm or what other term?

In the context of 20th-century music, what is a sonority derived from stacked 5ths called?

How many notes does an octatonic scale contain?

What is the term for the use of rapidly changing meter signatures in a piece of music?

What is the term for a technique where a composer intentionally violates the normal metric accent pattern by shifting the accent to a relatively weak beat?

What famous sequence of numbers, where each number is the sum of the previous two, has been a source of rhythmic inspiration for composers like Bartok?

The term 'mechanical rhythm' is implicit in the music of Conlon Nancarrow and refers to a rhythm that requires what for its precise execution?

Which diatonic mode is identical to the major scale?

How many notes are in a pentatonic scale?

The whole-tone scale is composed entirely of what interval?

What is the term for the use of ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords in a coloristic, nonfunctional setting?

Which composer's piano prelude 'Voiles' is cited as an example of a piece composed in ABA structure with A sections based on the whole-tone scale and a B section on the pentatonic scale?

An interval pattern of 'half-whole' or 'whole-half' successions is characteristic of which scale?

The term 'planing' is essentially synonymous with what other term?

In strict or real planing, what happens to the construction of each sonority as it moves in parallel?

Which diatonic mode is identical to the natural minor scale?

What type of meter, such as 5/4 or 7/8, is common in the music of Bartok?

The Lydian mode can be described as a major scale with what alteration?

The Dorian mode can be described as a natural minor scale with what alteration?

The Phrygian mode can be described as a natural minor scale with what alteration?

The Mixolydian mode can be described as a major scale with what alteration?

Due to its symmetrical nature, any sonority found among the tones of the octatonic scale will be reproduced how many semitones higher?

What are the three main intervals found within the whole-tone scale, along with their inversions?

What term describes the notation of two or more meters at once?

Which two traditional chords, one an incomplete seventh chord and the other an augmented sixth chord, can be derived from the whole-tone collection?

What are the five modes of the C major pentatonic scale, as shown in Example 26-6?

According to the text, a passage in Barber's Excursions, despite being in cut time, was clearly subdivided into how many beats in the time of four?