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National Society For French Music
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- 1871
- French reaction against German Style Ex: Camille Saint Saens |
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Impressionism
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- Name came from Monet's "Impression: Sunrise"
- Portrayal of actual experience Ex: Debussy's "Nuages" |
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Symbolism
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- Movement in literature and poetry that Debussy refered to
- Name came from Baudelaire's "Corespondance" - Reaction against formal element - Loose, free verse, no metrical pattern/rhyme scheme Ex: Debussy's "Nuages" |
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Whole-Tone Scale
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- Scale consisting of all whole steps
Ex: Ravel's "String Quartet in F Major" |
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Octatonic Scale
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- Alternating whole and half steps in a scale
Ex: Ravel's "String Quartet in F Major" |
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Atonal
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- Avoids establishing a central tonic
Ex: Schoenberg's "Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16" |
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Expressionism
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- Avoidance of beauty in order to express deep feeling and human experience
- Exploration of the human unconscious through art - Shoenberg was a leading figure - Visual representation: :The Scream" by Munch Ex: "Pierrot Lunaire" by Schoenberg |
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Sprechstimme
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- Vocal style developed by Schoenberg where performer approximates written pitch in gliding tones of speech
Ex: Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" |
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Society for Private Musical Performance In Vienna
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- Started by Schoenberg
- 1918 - Take music out of economics system - No general public or critics - People who were interested in playing/hearing new music - All music was well-rehearsed |
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The Method Of Composition With Twelve Tones
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- Form of atonality
- Ordering of all 12 notes in the chromatic scale - All notes equally important Ex: Schoenberg's "Piano Suite op. 25" |
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Tone Row
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- 3rd stage of Schoenberg's career
- inversion,retrograde, retrograde inversion, transposition - Postpone repetition, dissonance equal to consonance - No tonic Ex: Shoenberg's "Piano Suite op. 25" Prelude |
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Second Viennese School
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- Consists of Schoenberg, Weber and Berg
Ex; Schoenberg's "Piano Suite op. 25" |
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The Avante-Garde
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- Radical or new art
- Overthrow of accepted aesthetics - Often is outward looking Ex: Satie's "Parade" |
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Cubism
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- Restricted color
- Preservation of 3 dimensions on 2 dimensions (seeing multiple viewpoints at same time) Ex: Picasso's "Girl with Mandolin" |
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Dada
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- Reaction against WWI and the art of Bourgeoisie society
- Often involved staging weird events - Abstract - Art because you say it is Ex: Schuloff |
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The Ballet Russes
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- Ballet company that performed under the direction of Sergei Diagilev
Ex: They premiered Stravinsky's "Firebird" in Paris (1910) |
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Primitivism
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- A deliberate representation of the elemental, uncultured and crude
- casting aside of sophistication of modern life and trained artistry Ex: Stravinsky's "Right of Spring" |
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Neoclassicism
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- Composers revived and imitated styles of pre romantic music
Ex: Stravinsky's "Octet" |
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Friedrich Ruckert
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- German poet
Ex: Wrote the lyrics for Mahler's "Kindertotenlider" |
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Claude Monet
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- Impressionist painter
- His "Impression: Sunrise" gave the name to the impressionist movement Ex: "Impression: Sunrise" |
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Charles Baudelaire
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- Wrote poem that people look to as symbolism called "Correspondence"
- Emphasizes the idea of all senses being interwoven Ex: Baudelaire's "Correspondence" |
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Jean Cocteau
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- Wrote an essay about what French music should/shouldn't
- Against Romanticism, German, Debussy, Russian - Liked Satie - Said music should look outward and bring in all kinds of different musical influences Ex: "Cock and Harlequin" <- essay |
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Pablo Picasso
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- Cubism artist
- Did sets and costumes for Satie's "Parade" Ex: "Girl with Mandolin" |
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Serge Diaghilev
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- Organized artistic spectacles
- Brought Russian artists in to perform in Paris - Brought opera and ballets - Commissioned Stravinsky to write "Firebird" |
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Vaslav Nijinsky
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- Danced "Petrushka" and choreographed "Right of Spring"
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