Music Humanities
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Created by:
amwyatt on June 27, 2012
Subjects:
Music History, Beethoven, modernists, romantics
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Symphony No 5. C Minor, Op 67 | Beethoven Dah dah dah dum! Motivic consistency, organic, scherzo (like minuet, triple meter) fragmentation to two notes, then one. tension, fematas, solo oboe, extra long coda, |
| Erlkonig (The Erlking) | Franz Shubert lied-minature, only piano accompaniment- horses, through composed, 3 distinct characters, |
| Dichterlibe (A Poet's Love) | Robert Schumann song cycle- many poems, common theme, some strophic some through composed, ends first poem without cadence, ebbing and flowing, |
| Nocturne in F Sharp, Op 15 No 2 | Frederic Chopin night piece, chromaticism, rubato, |
| Symphonie Fantastique | Hector Berlioz autobiographical, idee fixe-obsession, bigger orchestra, program symphony, |
| Rigoletto | Guiseppe Verdi catchy tune, duke aria, rhythmic motive, strophic form, clear voice, |
| Ring Cycle, The Valkyrie | Richard Wagner Leitmotiv, 4 nights of opera, dramatic, character's thoughts, not quite an aria, |
| Madame Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini artificial Japanese sounding motive, dreamy, leitmotiv, |
| Pictures at an Exhibition | Modest Musorgsky promenade that changes, based on russian folk tune, written for piano, quituple meter, music set to paintings |
| Three Nocturnes, Clouds | Claude Debussy impressionistic, suggestive not explicit, slow, no solid-forward theme, vague rhythm, low drum roll, no true form (ABA') or structure, fragmentary |
| The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky Arrhythmic, no story, avant garde, folk tune fragments, dissonant polyphony, off rhythmic accents |
| Pierrot Lunaire | Arnold Schoenberg "Night" and "Moonfleck" song cylce, sprechstimme- speech-song, avant garde, expressionism, chromatic ostinato, atonal, chamber orchestra, |
| The Unanswered Question | Charles Ives two conductors, 3 separate sections, strings, brass, woodwinds each representing, not traditional polyphony, question repeated the exact same, |
| Lux Aeterna (Internal Light) | Gyorgy Ligeti 16 solo singers + chorus, all twelve pitches chords, focusing pitches, explores texture as music |
| Poeme Electronique | Edgard Varese Collage of noises, |
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