Final Exam Music History- Songs

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The Message

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1. gritty portrayal of life in the South Bronx with rap that veers between desperate images and humorous wordplay

2. Second half about life and death of poor child; ends with arrest of whole group for just being on the street

3. Music over electronic groove from digital drum machine, synthesizer, and other musicians creating polyrhythms

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Pedro Navaja

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1. Homage to "Mack the Knife"

2. Set in the 1970s with cultural references

3. Police sirens, conga, bongos, timbales, bass, piano, 4 trombones

4. Upward modulations

5. 10 verses before montuno section-which is based on call and response, repetition of refrain and instrumental interactions

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Bad Girls

Back 3

Disco by Donna Summer

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Oye Come Va

Back 4

Latin tinge in rock music

Front 5

Like A Rolling Stone

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Bob Dylan

1.put an end to restrictions on length, subject matter and poetic diction controlling the creation of pop records

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Respect

Back 6

renegotiation of control in relationship

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Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

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James Brown

1. Funk

2. Strong dance orientation

3. Call and response

4. Repeating instrumental riff

5. 12-bar blues, (each stanza)

6. paved way for rap

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El Watusi

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1. a charanga recorded by Baretto and His Charanga Moderna

2. violins play repeated pattern

3. flute improvising

4. verbal interplay (predecessor of hiphop)

5.handclaps

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Watermelon Man

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1. fusion of rumba and mambo with African American popular music

2. Also called this: "soul jazz" with elements of rhythm and blues

3. pop hook played by Latin group

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Eleanor Rigby

Back 10

1. verse/refrain form based on 2 chords (I, vii)

with orchesral strings and almost folk feeling or old-time balladry

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Yesterday

Back 11

1. solo for Paul throughout with acoustical guitar and orchestral instruments

2. AABA form and old time Tin Pan Alley feel

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A Hard Days Night

Back 12

1. AABA form

2. plays with blues ideas in the 12 bar A sections and unexpected sounds from guitars

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Please, Please Me

Back 13

1. AABA form with some interesting internal forms and fine wordplay

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Good Vibrations

Back 14

1.experimentation with instruments: theremin

2. fascinating form

3. interplay between sections

4. interplay between major/minor

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You Can't Hurry Love

Back 15

1. complex form that reflects the songs point-which is that one has to wait for love

2. All within Motown sound

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My Girl

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1. includes Motown's clean productions values, 2 good "hooks"

2. lots of interesting instrumental effects like the string track

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Hound dog

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1. fusion of country and cosmopolitan

2. Nashville sound

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Adams- "Short Ride on a Fast Machine"

Back 18

1. melody with adaptation of minimalist aesthetic

2. exciting pulsating material

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Reich- "Tehillim"

Back 19

1. postminimalist

2.procedures remain but in service of a somewhat more traditional aesthetic

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Schnittke- "Concerto Grosso No. 1"

Back 20

1. mixes 18th century ideas with modern and popular music through allusion and not quotations

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Guhaidulina- "Rejoice!"

Back 21

1. reflects several aspects of her music with 5th mvt

2. study of chromaticism, glissandos, tremolos and harmonies

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Carter- "Catenaires"

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1. solo piano inspired by perpetual motion finale of Chopin's Sonata, Op, 35

2. Has single line played as rapidly as possible derived from 12-note row

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Higdon- "Blue Cathedral"

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1. orchestral tone poem based on interplay between high instruments

2. creates journey through a glass cathedral in the sky

3. Inspired by Debussy and beauty of sound

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Golijov- "La Pason Segun San Marcos"

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1. Written for 20th anniversary of Bach's death

2. African-influenced musical ideas from Brazil and Cuba

3. Ritual feel in voices, dance and theatre mvt

4. chorus members playing all the roles telling Jesus' birth

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Saariaho-"L'Amour de Loin"

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1. opera

2. Story of 12th century troubadour with final lament

3. Combo of modernist melody with form based on typical repeating phrases of troubadour song

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Arvo Part- "Seven Magnificat Antiphons"

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1. Uses on primarily stepwise, diatonic melody with other voices that are in note - against- note counterpoing

2. mostly includes pitches in the tonic triad

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Penderecki- "Threnody For the Victims of Hiroshima"

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1. extended techniques in work

2. For 52 string instruments

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Babbitt- "Philomel"

Back 28

1. Electronic music

2. synthesizers

3. mixes electronic music and live performance

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Varese- "Poeme Electronique"

Back 29

1. electronic music and synthesizers

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Boulez- "Le Marteau Sans Maltre"

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1. Song cycle based on set of poems by Rene Char

2. alto voice, alto flute, xylorimba, vibraphone, guitar, viola and other percussion

3. singer not always matched by other ensemble

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Crumb- "Black Angels"

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1. For electronically amplified string quartet and various percussion instruments with extended techniques

2. In opposition to Vietnam War- good vs. evil

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Cage- "Music of Changes"

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1. Had the durational structure, then filled the sections with notes and rhythms based on chance operations derived from Chinese book "I Ching"

2. Work mimics randomness of nature-indeterminacy of composition

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Cage- "Sonata V for Prepared Piano"

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1. Various materials placed between the strings alters the pianos timbre

2. binary form=sonata

3. other sections based on ratios

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Messiaen-"Quartet for the End of Time"

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1. clarinet, violin, cello and piano (only available instruments in POW German camp)

2.Title refers to Christian end of times

3. This mvt is "Crystal Liturgy" referring to stones described in celestial city wall

4. Study of various types of time

5. Has complex rows of rhythmic values

6. cycle of 29 chords in piano that repeat

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Britten- "Peter Grimes"

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1. opera that explores an unpopular man who is persecuted by fellow townsfolk and then driven to suicide

2. allegory for homosexuals in that time

3. Highly dramatic with english language and instrumental music describing the sea

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Perichetti- "Symphony for Band"

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1. In 4 movements

2. Considers one of his nine symphonies

3. Wild diversity

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Ligeti- "Etude No. 9, Vertige"

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1. orchestral work based on tone clusters and manipulation of sound masses

2. descending chromaticism

3. mixes his earlier style with elements of 19th century virtuosity in solo piano etudes

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Park and Gillespie- "Anthropology"

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1. Contrafact over Gershwin's "Rhythm changes" (new melody composed over chords in "I Got Rhythm")

2. Introduction, primary melody (head), virtuosic playing from Parker, Gill.

3. AABA form

4. Parker's solo in 3 choruses

5. "Trading Fours"-alternating 4 measures of melody instruments with 4 of drum solo