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Igor Stravinsky |
polyrhythm, modernist, from Russia, composed rite of Spring(ballet) for the Ballet Rus, Nationalist, |
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Scott Joplin |
American, Ragtime, pianist. Composed Maple Leaf Rag |
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Johannes Brahms |
Conservative- composed more in the classical style even though he lived in the romantic era |
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Franz Schubert |
Art Songs- in classical and romantic style. Main composer of art songs. German. |
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Antonin Dvorak |
Russian that came to America, Nationalist. Composed the character piece "The Moldau" |
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Charles Ives |
American Modernist composer. Successful businessman that composed but did not publish until much later. |
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Giuseppe Verdi |
Italian opera composer in the second half of the 1800's. took much more time on his compositions than earlier "bel canto" opera composers |
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Frederic Chopin |
composed only for the piano, including many "nocturnes" |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
Modernist, proponent of 12-tone serialism |
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Leonard Bernstein |
Composed for Broadway(West Side Story), great music educator, conductor of the new york phil for a long time, conducted the performance of Beethoven's 9th symphony at the fall of the Berlin wall |
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Stephen Foster |
Composer of American Folksongs, first great "american" composer, composed "O susanna", "camptown races" |
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Richard Wagner |
leitmotif, German opera, composed the Ring Cycle. Also hated Jews |
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Aaron Copland |
American composer, composed Appalachian Spring(ballet). Worked against the modernist ideal that music didn't need to sound good. |
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George Gershwin |
Composed Porgy and Bess. American pianist, incorporated jazz elements into classical compositions |
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William Billings |
first American choral composer |
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George Bizet |
composed the opera Carmen(realistic opera) |
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Peter Tchaikovsky |
Russian, composed ballet/symphonies. not one of the russian five |
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Giacomo Puccini |
composed from 1900- 1930(ish). composed realistic opera |
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Hector Berlioz |
composed for huge orchestras- Symphony fantastique. renowned for skills in orchestration. introduced the idee fixe |
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Giacomo Rossini |
composer of Bel Canto operas. composed in first half the the 1800's
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Claude Debussy |
impressionist composer- composed Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, utilized pentatonic and whole tone scales |
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Clara Wieck |
great pianist that married Schumann. |
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John Cage |
modernist. composer of "chance" music (aleatory). composed the piece 4' 33" |
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Franz Lizst |
arguably the greatest pianist of all time. composed the transcendental etudes. composer of the symphonic poem |
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Modest Mussorgsky |
Nationalist Russian composer. One of the Russian Five. composed scenes at an exhibition (promenade, great gate of kiev, etc.) |
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk |
American, composed in the civil war era |
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Stephen Mallarme |
wrote the poem that Prelude to the afternoon of a faun ins based on |
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character pieces |
for the piano. usually less than 10 minutes, intended to depict a certain mood or "character" |
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gestamptkunstwerk |
"complete art work"- Wagner's ideal |
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sprechstimme |
"sung speech"-really ugly |
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musical theater |
theater that involves music? basically a more accessible version of operas, very popular in English speaking countries |
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art song |
a piece for voice and piano. dominated by Schubert |
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leitmotif/idee fixe |
a recurring theme meant to depict a certain character or idea in a longer piece of music (such as the Symphony fantastique or Wagner's operas) |
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12-tone (serial) composition |
a really bad way of composing music that disregards typical conventions such as chord progressions and not sounding like poop |
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ragtime |
type of composition that featured lots of syncopation. popularized by Scott Joplin |
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symphonic poem (tone poem) |
shorter pieces for orchestras. similar to the idea of a character piece but for an orchestra rather than just a piano |
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Ring Cycle |
18 hours of Wagner Opera, 4 different operas |
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blues |
an american style of composition. typically a twelve bar structure that features improvisation as well as "bending" of the pitch |
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program music |
music that follows a story, this story was often put in the program so listeners could follow along. example is Symphony Fantastique |
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realistic opera |
opera that followed the "bel canto" style. focused more on real people and their struggle rather than the upper classes |
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aleatoric music |
"chance" music- in theory, it is never the same any two times it is performed. |
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dissonance |
two notes that don't sound good together. seconds, tritones are examples |
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musical nationalism-Russian five |
a movement to embrace what is "german" about music, or "russian". Russian five are an example of this movement as it appeared in Russia. |
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Impressionism |
a musical movement that mirrored an art movement by the same time. Prelude to the afternoon of a faun is a good example. doesn't really go anywhere, just kind of ebbs and flows |
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electronic music (2 types ) |
synthesized (all sounds created by computerization) and musique concrete( samples sounds from nature/human activity) |
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nocturne |
a type of piano song, Chopin composed many of them. Meant to evoke the nighttime. |
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whole tone, pentatonic scale |
scales used by debussy, those after him. did not have much dissonance due to the lack of the tritone in the scale, no leading tone pull |
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minimalism |
Phillip Glass and John Adams composed this type of music. usually very repetitive and tries not to use very many new ideas |
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atonal music |
music that is not "in a key"- it has no tonal home |