Music Final

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Lied

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German for Song, German text, voice and piano

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Strophic Form

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same music is repeated with every stanza

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Through-Composed Form

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song that is composed from start to finish without repetitions of large sections

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Song Cycles

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group of songs that are unified musically

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Franz Schubert

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Viennese composer, songwriter, 600+ songs, (1797-1828)

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Robert Schomann

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German composer, 1810-1856, Romantic era, pianist

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Frederic Chopin

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1810-1849, Polish composer, pianist, romantic era,

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Mazueka

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polish folk dance, lively, triple meter

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Nationalism

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folklore and exotic subjects

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Exoticism

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musical style in which rhythms, melodies, or instruments evoke the atmosphere of far off lands

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Program Music

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concert overtime, incidental music, program symphony, symphonic poem/tone poem

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Hector Berlioz

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French composer and conductor, Paris, favored program musicFf

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Edward Greig

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Norwegian composer and pianist, 1843-1907, Romantic era

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Absolute Music

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multi movement cycle, increased orchestral size, lyrical themes, colorful harmonies, expanded proportions, 18th cen

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Symphony and string quartet

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Fast, Slow, triple meter dance, fast

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Sonata and Concerto

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Fast, Slow, Fast

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Music Drama

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Wagner's term for his operas

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Richard Wagner

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German composer, career in Gresden, failed revolution in 1849, exile in Switzerland

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Leitmotif

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2 note, characteristics have own theme, Jaws

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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German for "total artwork"

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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Gay, Russian composer, popular ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, NutcrackerF

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Impressionism

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French movement developed by visual artists who favored blurry images to get a true impression

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Expressionism

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style of literature in Germany and Austria in the early 20th cen.

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Claude Debussy

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1862-1918, French composer, frequent usage of atonality

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Polymeter

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simultaneous use of several meters

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Polyrhythm

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simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns

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Polytonality

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the simultaneous use of 2 or more keys

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Atonality

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moves from one level of dissonance to the next without relaxation

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21 method (dodecaphonic)

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method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Austrian composer, conductor, teacher, artist, self taught, atonality and serial composition, Sad Clown obsessed with moon, atonal work

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Second Viennese School

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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

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Igor Stravinsky

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Russian composer, pianist, conductor

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Rite of Spring (Riots)

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ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky

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Sprechstimme

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speech song

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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tone, color, melody, sounds of instruments are more important than notes played

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Charles Ives

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Conneticut born composer, businessman, insurance business, yale, polytonality, poly harmonic, and polyrhythm

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Silvertre Revueltas

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Mexican nationalist, Mexican composer and conductor, 1899-1940), child prodigy (violin), music is colorful

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Blues

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American genre of folk music, repeating harmonic pattern, 12 bar structure

BB King- (1925-2015) Three O'clock Blues,

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Jazz

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New Orleans, West African Music, Work Songs, uses straight rhythm

Louis Armstrong- (1901-1971), What a Wonderful World

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Musicals

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genre of 20th century, spoken dialogue, dramatic