MusicExam 4
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- Symbolists
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rejected realism
free language from specific meaning and feeling
felt their words were musical - Claude Debussy was from
- France
- Debussy
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reaction against higher expressionism
smaller forms
whole tone scales/parallel chords
- whole tone scales/parallel chords
- Debussy
- "Prelude to the afternoon on a faun"
- Debussy
- Erik Satie was from
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France
- Satie
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avant-garde
"Furniture Music"
only ate white foods
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"Furniture Music"
"Gymnopedies" for piano - Satie
- Maurice Ravel
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contemporary to debussy
exotic influences
sonata for violin and cello
piano concerto in G
- Arnold Shoeberg
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first compositions-late romantic tradition
"Transfigured Night"
hugely influencial
- "Transfigured Night"
- Shoenberg
- German Expressionism
- grotesque, strange, bizarre
- 12 tone/serialism by...?
- Shoenberg
- 12 tone/serialism
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emancipation of dissonance
uses mathematical equation
uses 12 tones in a particular order-"harmony"
- Sprechstimme
- in between talking and singing
- "Pierrot Lunaire"
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Shoenberg
creepy, weird - Alban berg
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student of shoenberg
Wozzeck
uses serialism
atonal opera - Anton Webern
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short and concise music
"Six Bagatelles"
- "Six Bagatelles"
- Webern
- Igor Stravinsky was from
- Russia
- Stravinsky
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super influencial
promote russian heritage and culture
ballets with big orchestra
old russian stories
"Firebird"
"The Rite of Spring" - "Firebird"
- Stravinsky
- "The Rite of Spring"
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Stravinsky
Epic fail
riots, disaster
- Stravinsky's phases of career
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1. Ballet
2. Neoclassicism
3. Serialism - polytonality
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Stravinsky
stacked on top of each other (tone cluster) - Dmitri Shostakovich
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relation to Stalin
intensely personal
DSCH-initials in music - Sergei Prokofiev
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Peter and the wolf
"war sonatas"
grotesque - American Music is known for...
- folk music and hymns
- charles Ives
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church organist/insurance salesman
pulls from many influences
clashing sounds
"unanswered question"-slow and peaceful with bursts of woodwinds - "unanswered question"
- Charles Ives
- Aaron Copland
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Paras avant-garde-embellishing/over the top
"American Sound" folktunes
"Appalachian Spring"
"Billy the Kid"-ballet
- Samuel Barber
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neoromanticist but also a lot of modernism
wrote for orchestra, voice and chamber music
"Addigo for Strings'-only string quartet
saddest song ever written" - "Addigo for Strings"
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Barber
saddest song ever
- Philip Glass
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music with repetitive structure-middlist
"Einstein on the Beach"
film scores
Sesame Street - brought avant-garde to popular audience
- Philip Glass
- Scott Joplin
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Rag composer
"Mapel Leaf Rag"-1 million copies
piano rolls - George Gershwin
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Brooklyn, NY
popular songs
fused jazz with music for concert hall
"Prelude No. 1"
"Rhapsody in Blue" - Leonard Berstein
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Harvard
NY Philharmonic
first conductor on Tv
wrote for symphonic orchestra, opera and broadway
West side story - West side story
- Leonard Bernstein
- Impressionists
- expressing feelings through art
- Minimalism
- simplicity of style
- whole tone scale
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Debussy
parallel chord - Leitmotif
- main recurring theme
- Neoclassical
- revival of classical styles
- claude monet
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impressionism
art - Philip Glass was from
- USA
- Maurice Ravel was from
- france
- George Crumb was from
- USA
- Steve Riech was from
- USA
- Alban Berg was from
- Austria
- Anton Webern was from
- Russia
- Aaron Copland was from
- USA
- George Gershwin was from
- USA
- Leonard Bernstein was from
- USA
- Charles Ives was from
- USA
- George crumb
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"Black Angels"
Vietnam war - Steve Reich
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electronic media
minimalism
phasing - phasing
- 2 instruments that start in unison and over time phase apart
- prepared piano pieces
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Reich
putting this in piano to make it sound different - John Williams
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USA
film composer
So many famous movies - John Cage
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USA
silent song
challenged music - film scores
- songs for movies....the future?
- Bernard Herrman
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almost exclusively for film
famous for collaborations with Hitchock
"vertigo"
"psycho"