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National Society For French Music
- 1871
- French reaction against German Style
Ex: Camille Saint Saens
Impressionism
- Name came from Monet's "Impression: Sunrise"
- Portrayal of actual experience
Ex: Debussy's "Nuages"
Symbolism
- 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"
Whole-Tone Scale
- Scale consisting of all whole steps
Ex: Ravel's "String Quartet in F Major"
Octatonic Scale
- Alternating whole and half steps in a scale
Ex: Ravel's "String Quartet in F Major"
Atonal
- Avoids establishing a central tonic
Ex: Schoenberg's "Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16"
Expressionism
- 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
Sprechstimme
- Vocal style developed by Schoenberg where performer approximates written pitch in gliding tones of speech
Ex: Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"
Society for Private Musical Performance In Vienna
- 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
The Method Of Composition With Twelve Tones
- Form of atonality
- Ordering of all 12 notes in the chromatic scale
- All notes equally important
Ex: Schoenberg's "Piano Suite op. 25"
Tone Row
- 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
Second Viennese School
- Consists of Schoenberg, Weber and Berg
Ex; Schoenberg's "Piano Suite op. 25"
The Avante-Garde
- Radical or new art
- Overthrow of accepted aesthetics
- Often is outward looking
Ex: Satie's "Parade"
Cubism
- Restricted color
- Preservation of 3 dimensions on 2 dimensions (seeing multiple viewpoints at same time)
Ex: Picasso's "Girl with Mandolin"
Dada
- Reaction against WWI and the art of Bourgeoisie society
- Often involved staging weird events
- Abstract
- Art because you say it is
Ex: Schuloff
The Ballet Russes
- Ballet company that performed under the direction of Sergei Diagilev
Ex: They premiered Stravinsky's "Firebird" in Paris (1910)
Primitivism
- 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"
Neoclassicism
- Composers revived and imitated styles of pre romantic music
Ex: Stravinsky's "Octet"
Friedrich Ruckert
- German poet
Ex: Wrote the lyrics for Mahler's "Kindertotenlider"
Claude Monet
- Impressionist painter
- His "Impression: Sunrise" gave the name to the impressionist movement
Ex: "Impression: Sunrise"
Charles Baudelaire
- Wrote poem that people look to as symbolism called "Correspondence"
- Emphasizes the idea of all senses being interwoven
Ex: Baudelaire's "Correspondence"
Jean Cocteau
- 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
Pablo Picasso
- Cubism artist
- Did sets and costumes for Satie's "Parade"
Ex: "Girl with Mandolin"
Serge Diaghilev
- Organized artistic spectacles
- Brought Russian artists in to perform in Paris
- Brought opera and ballets
- Commissioned Stravinsky to write "Firebird"
Vaslav Nijinsky
- Danced "Petrushka" and choreographed "Right of Spring"