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Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from
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Folk and popular music from all cultures
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Combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as
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Polychord
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Unusual playing technique a rapid slide up or down scale
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Glissando
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A Composer not stimulated by the folklore of his natrive land
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Anton Webern
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Chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart
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Tone cluster
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Absence of key or tonality in a musical composition
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Atonality
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To create fresh sounds composers used
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Scales borrowed from nonwestern cultures,scales they invented,ancient church modes
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The use of two or more keysat one time
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Poytonality
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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section
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Ostinato
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Twentieth Century music
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String players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows,percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous,dissonance has been emancipated
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Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the
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1920's
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First opera crearted for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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Recordingsof mush lesser-known music mutiplied in 1948 through
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The apperance of long-playing disks
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The most influential organization sponsoring new music after WW! was
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International Soceity for Contemporary music
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Best known American ensemble created in 1930's by a radio network to broadcast live music
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NBC Symphony Orchestra
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