Music App Final

Front 1

The Erlking

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Father and son on horse beign chased by the Erkle king if they are caught the boy dies.
-Visual scene of galloping horse is set up.
-Four voices sung by 1 person
-Written by Schubert

Front 2

"Military" Polonaise

Back 2

Polish Dance
-Chopin

Front 3

Symphonie Fantastique, 5th movements

Back 3

Story of composer who was on drugs and dreamt of being made fun of in his dreams.
-Idee Fixe
-Berlioz
-Quotation in middle, Gregorian chant ( bells ) symbolize grotesque

Front 4

La Donna E Mobile

Back 4

Italian comical opera.
-Favored voice over instrument.
-Music is not unique
-Rigoletto

Front 5

The Valkryie

Back 5

Wagner
-Reminds *Disney movies

Front 6

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

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Impressionistic Era.
-More provocative sound not just basic chords.
-Claude Debussy
-Bohemian ssound.
-Changed the way harmony originally functioned.

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The Rite of Spring

Back 7

-Example of what happens when rhythm is not what we expect it to be.
-Dissonance, the sound doesn't sound bad.
-Ballet by Stravinsky

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Pierrot Lunaire

Back 8

-Story of a sad clown obsessed with the moon.
-Shoenburg

Front 9

West Side Story

Back 9

Musical by Leonard Bernstein

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Tonight

Back 10

-Various characters are telling what is on their minds.
-Music is playing at the same melody as the singer but at a different time.

Front 11

Mambo

Back 11

-Mix of Spanish music and modern music.

Front 12

Tromba Lontana

Back 12

John Adams
-Wind instrument with triangle?

Front 13

The Modau

Back 13

-Cellos representing the water
-Scene of a peasant wedding.
"my country"
-Bedrich Semtana

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Franz Schubert

Back 14

Composer born in Vienna
-Perfected piano music
-Leid
-ErlKing

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Frederic Chopin

Back 15

-Polish Composer and painist
-Expanded range of piano in technique and expression
-organization in modern piano style
"etudes" nocturnes
-"Military" Polonaise

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Hector Berlioz

Back 16

-Large scale program works
-symphony Fantastique

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Italian composer
-Important contributions to Opera's development
-National hero and senator

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Richard Wagner

Back 18

Invented a new genre.
-German opera composer changes concept of opera.
-Wanted everything to be equal.
-Influenced by realism

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Claude Debussy

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French composer, impressionist, Prix de Rome

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Igor Stravinsky

Back 20

Russian composer, most influential of 20th century.
Bold experimentor , used many different styles kept his original sound.
-Shifting and irregular meters, sounds, sound blocks that succeed to transitions.

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Austrian composer, teacher & music theorist.
-First to abandon tonal music completely and invent 12 tone system

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Leonard Bernstein

Back 22

American composer and conductor
-often merged popular and classical styles

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John Adams

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American post-minimalist composer, wanted to fuse minimalism with more lyrics and expressiveness
-Minimalism composer
-Very repetitive

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Lied

Back 24

Song for solo voice and piano in German

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Song cycle

Back 25

Group of songs unified in some matter

Front 26

Strophic vs. through -composed

Back 26

-Strophic- Repeats music for each verse
-Through: New music for each verse

Front 27

Miniature

Back 27

Just piano, no singing.

Front 28

Tempo rubato

Back 28

Performers will slow tempo to create mood then speed up to make up for the time.

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Program music

Back 29

-Music that relies on literary or pictorial works.
-Music accompanying a narrative
.Depicts a scene of nature or tells some sort of narrative or work.
-If it has text then it changes to non program music.
-Ex : Symphony Fantastique

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Idee Fixe

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Fixes idea, represents a loved one.
-Reoccurring theme that is supposed to represent the beloved.

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Bel canto

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Italian operatic style characterized by singing with great agility and purity, lyrical melodic lines, melody is the most important element
-Beautiful song
Ex:Rigoleto

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Music Drama

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Seperate arias, one continious opera.
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Front 33

Total work of art

Back 33

Idea of Wagner wanted to elevate performance, make-up, lighting, dance and costume to be EXTRAORDINARY.

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Leitmotif

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Basic recurring theme representing a person, object, or idea.
-Little motives that represent nouns or pronouns
-Ex Wagners Opera

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The ring cycle

Back 35

Cycle of 4 operas by Wagner

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impressionalism

Back 36

-Movement that began with the arts
-Gave viewers their impressions, no lines.
-Used blurs, lines and shapes.

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Minimalism

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Uses a deliberately restricted set of notes and sounds, lots of repetition
-Reaction trend to all previous "isms".
-Go back to basics, rhythms, chords, repeated elements of music.
-Changes happen very slowly over time.

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Neo-classicism

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Composers wanted to go back to enlightenment and classic era.
-Clear sense of form and line, logic. melody, rhythm .
-Back to 18th Century

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Second Viennese school

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Schoeberg, Berz, and Webern
-Worked in a style and music language in expressionism.
-Speed singing .

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Sprechstimme

Back 40

Half speaking, half singing

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The Romantic spirit

Back 41

Man was discovering his own person, one did not want to become part of something large like: a class or status under rule of a king.
-They had their own voice and wanted to express it.
-Composers wanted to find their voice and wanted to express it.
-Time of the supernatural ex: Erlking King
-INstruments are being built better and technique is improving.

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Opera in the 19th century

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-The voice is beautiful and thay is what we want to hear.
-Opera singers are "rockstars"

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20th century musical trends

Back 43

All the isms. ()
Tonality composers scrambled to find their own voices.
-People felt that a lot of things in life were unstable..music would also become unstable.
-Isms were in
-Free for all

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Musical theater

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American cultivated.
Look at life more honestly than jokingly.
-Mixture of musical theater and opera.
ex: West Side Story