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Music App study guide 9-11

Terms in this set (38)

Program music
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Franz Schubert
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Hector Berlioz
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Frederic Chopin
Piano
Robert Schumann
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Franz Liszt
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Richard Wagner
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian, wrote ballets, gay
Modest Mussorgsky
Represents the feeling of nationalism, Russian
Gustav Mahler
Jewish, Austrian
Leitmotiv
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• Symphonie Fantastique (Dies Irae) *Be able to recognize in a listening
Berlioz, band plays, Irish death mass, used to intimidate
Atonality
It is a lack of major and minor scales, it's all keys, created by Schoenberg
• Pentatonic, whole-tone, and octatonic scale p.322
5 notes, Japanese, Asian sound............ dreamy.......... evil 8 notes
Bitonality
Two keys same time
• Polyrhythm
Many rhythms, Impressionism and privatism
• Tone row
On of the rows in twelve tone, Serialism, expressionality
Serialism
Same as twelve tone, system in place that you follow ridgidly, expressionism
• Found-sounds
Musique concrète, modernism
• Claude Debussy
French, Impressionism, abstract idea, a cloud, uses whole tones, aba
Primitivism
Exploring other cultures,
• Igor Stravinsky
Polyrhythms, rite of spring, riots, creates musical collages, sexually provocative
• Significance of The Rite of Spring
Created a riot, people hated it, too ahead of his time
Expressionism
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• Second Viennese School
Schoenberg is teacher, Berg, Webern invents twelve tone technique
• Arnold Schoenberg And sprechstime
Wanted people to hate his music to push boundaries, "Speaking voice"
•Shostakovich
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• Alban Berg
Used twelve tone and atonality, knife by the lake scene
• Anton Webern
Shot by American soldier, invented twelve tone scale, big orchestras but individual instruments play
• Bela Bartok
Ethnomusicologist, creepy
• Benjamin Britten
Gay, wrote U.K. To USA during WWII
American
• Aaron Copland
Hoe down
• George Gershwin
Summer time and living is easy- rapsidy in blue, talks with African American community
• Leonard Bernstein
West side story, 6-8 to 3-4 meter
Modernism
• Pierre Boulez
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Kryzysztof Penderecki
• Milton Babbitt. John cage
-musique concrète, using recorded sounds - first electronic music composers. - Hiroshima - who cares if u listen argued people weren't intelligent didn't care about being popular - 4 min and 34 sec, amplify cacti
Post-modernism
• Arvo Pärt. Philip glass
• Steve Reich
Simplicity, beauty, minimalism
Listening

• Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique
• Debussy- Nuages
• Stravinsky- The Rite of Spring
• Bernstein- America
• Schoenberg- Pierrot Lunaire
• Glass- Mishima
Called program music, 5th movement is dièse irae- Clouds penratonic scale, oboe used - 6 8 to 3 4 - sprekshtima - minimalism
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