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Stravinsky's First Phase |
Russian Period; Rite of Spring |
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Stravinsky's Second Phase |
More tonal; Neoclassicism/classical (the idea of drawing musical inspiration from the past; music before hand.) Largest period of his phases.
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Example of Neoclassicism |
Symphony of Songs (oboe and bassoon) |
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Folk Music (Bartok, Van Williams)
True or False: Ray Van Williams strongly rejected composers using folk music in their works. |
FALSE. |
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Bartok's music for strings & percussion celeste, has 1 movement that is considered an example of night music. What are the characteristics of this music? |
Mysterious quality, slow tempo. |
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Microcosmo's |
Collection of 6 volumes of piano pieces graded in difficulty. Mini aspects of Bartok's comp. style. Folk Music. Last 6 are 6 dances of Bulgarian Rhythm. |
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This -ism is associated with austro german music with dark subject matter. |
Expressionism. |
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Most famous work of expressionism (chamber work) what is it? |
Hero Linaire; Mark Schoenberg |
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Night; Mark Schoenberg |
Creepy girl singing |
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Halfway between singing and speaking? |
Sprechgesang |
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Schoenberg was the leader of the 3 composers. Referred to as? |
The Second Viennese School |
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Schoenberg's first phase is the atonal; what is the name of the second period? |
Serial Period - 12 tone period; Piano Suite Op. 5
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In serialism, 12-tone matrix. There are 4 forms of the row, what are they? |
Prime Inversion (intervals are upside-down) Retrograde (backwards) Retrograde - Inversion (backwards and upside-down) |
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In the Piano Suite, how does this reflect his 12 - tone system? |
Uses multiple forms of the row.
Only uses 8 of the 48 possible tones.
Organized like a Baroque suite.
(Sounds like strange, separated piano playing, varying tempos) |
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Expressionism is usually chamber or piano works (austro-german). Almost always have voices/text. What is a very famous example of an expressionistic opera? |
Wozzeck - Alban Berg.
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Berg calls the drowning scene...six inventions. Act 3, scene 3 ******. |
Rhythmic part in intro piano. Repeats through all the vocal and instrumental parts. Represents his insanity and his obsessive nature.
(1, 2, 3+a) |
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This composer was known for using little dots of sounds (pointillism) |
Webern! |
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Webern's Symphony, Op.21, movement 1 |
Brass/strings/woodwinds just playing one note at a time, overlapping each other. |
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Impressionism. |
Originated in France.
Characteristics in the visual arts: blurry, difficult to tell what the subject matter is. A lot of colors, but muted. |
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In music, the most important composer representing impressionism: |
Claude Debussy |
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Important musical aspects of impressionism that Debussy incorporates into his pieces? |
Blended tonalities, loved to use unusual scales (whole tone scale), pentatonic scales, and occasionally used the octatonic scale (varies between whole and half steps)
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Debussy's 3 Nocturns, Mvt 1: Clouds |
Starts with just woodwinds, oboe solo sneaks in. Sounds like English Horn solo. High strings.
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Debussy only completed one opera. The most important impressionist opera? |
Pelleas et Melisande. |
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Primitivism |
(Picasso; father in the arts)
Subject matter: outside of the traditional relm of western art and music. An art that is primal or tribal, ancient...considered uncultured in some ways. |
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Stravinsky; 3 major ballets: |
Fire Bird, Petrushka, Rite of Spring. |
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Of Stravinsky's 3 major ballets, which is an example of primitivism? |
Rite of Spring
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Why is Rite of Spring primitivist? |
The subject matter goes back to a ritual and dancing... Ballet ends by her dancing herself to death. Chosen virgin for the sacrifice. |
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Rite of Spring: Final Scene (sacrificial dance) |
Very angry, strong off beats. |
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True or False: The Rite of Spring was taken well by the audience at it's premiere? |
FALSE |
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STRAVINSKY REALLY GOT HIS START AS A COMPOSER AND HIS FIRST BREAK BECAUSE OF HIS WORK WITH RUSSIAN DIRECTOR BALLE RUSE? |
Sergei Diaghilev |
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Erik Satie: Dried Embryo's |
Light/playful piano sounding (making fun of music) |
