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15 Cards in this Set
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Sibelius
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Modal melodies,
uncomplicated rhythms repetition of motives, pedal points, strong contrasts of orchestral timbres and textures |
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Rachmoninov
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Pianist
Created new melodies that sounded fresh and familiar Did conventional, but in a new way |
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Satie
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Repetitive unresolved music
Commentary inside music, not on program |
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Schoenberg
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Committed to German classic tradition
Used 12 tone method. Continue tradition, and say something that hadn’t been said before. Thought nothing should repeated Organized his atonal music: Developing variation, integration of harmony and melody, and chromatic saturation. Created pitch-class set Created 12 tone method, or row form. Created Sprechstimme-A form of dramatic declamation between singing and speaking |
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Berg
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Studied with Schoenberg
Mixed atonal, and tonal, with expressive gestures. Used Sprechstimme Eventually adapted 12 tone style |
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Webern
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Studied with Schoenberg
Felt music operates under natural law, and not taste. Adopted 12 tone method. Pointillism |
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Stravinsky
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Russian nationalist
Frequent ostinatos Layering blocks of sound Dissonance based on diatonic, octatonic Dry, colorful use of instruments Borrowed Russian folk tunes Launched neo-classicism Neotonal-using new way to establish a note as a tonal center. 12 tone-became serial music. Very influential |
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Bartok
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Combined Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, and Bulgarian.
Studied Hungarian Peasant music Used piano as more percussive Pushed limits of dissonance Combined classic(formal procedures) with peasant tradition (complex meters, mixed modes) Used neotonality |
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Shostakovich
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All work was created in a politicized context.
Expand # of movements Add Voices Overlay tonal areas Dense chromaticism Tight dissonant chords |
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Copland
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Combined modernism and American national idioms
Gay, Jewish, Leftie Borrowed traditional songs Wide spaced sonorities, octaves, and fifths. |
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John Cage
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Focused on new sounds
Prepared piano-inserting objects in between strings Influenced by Buddhism Used: Chance, indeterminacy, and blurring art, music, and life. |
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Atonal School
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Led us into 20th century
Post WWII Serial, 12 tone school Schoenberg (Father of Atonal)-2 disciples=Berg and Webern Berg: 1.) Indeterminacy (John Cage) Philosophical composition technique (“Chance”) 2.) Electronic Music 3.) Minimalism- small idea repeated over and over again Bitonality-two keys, spread apart Polytonality Multiphonics-overtones Webern-Pointalism |
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Chromaticism
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Utilization of rhythm
Stravinsky-3 Ballet Suite Firebird Petrouchka Rite of Spring Primitivism-Rousseau |
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Neo Classicism
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18th Century Aesthetics, with 20th century tonal language
fugal writing church music linear counterpoint Stravinsky-Pedal point Ostinato pattern Nationalism, French Les Six (Honegger, Poulenc, Milhaud) |
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Neo Romanticism
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Nationalism
1.) 19th century aesthetics, Rejects new work, hate atonal music, compose as if it never occurred. Sibelius 2.) 19th century aesthetics, 20th century harmonic language |
