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32 Cards in this Set

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I Got Rhythm

1930


George Gershwin

Cotton Tail

1940


Duke Ellington


Back Water Blues

1927


Bessie Smith

The Creation of the World Op. 81

1922-1923


Darius Milhaud

Afro American Symphony, first movement

1930


William Grant Smith

Symphony No. 5, second movement

1937


Dmitri Shostakovich

Hyperprism

1922-1923


Edgard Varése

The Banshee

1925


Henry Cowell

Appalachian Spring, excerpts

1943-1944


Aaron Copland


1930

I Got Rhythm


George Gershwin



Afro-American Symphony, first movement


William Grant Still

1940

Cotton Tail


Duke Elllington

1927

Back Water Blues


Bessie Smith

1922-1923

The Creation of the World Op. 81


Darius Milhaud



Hyperprism


Edgard Varése

1925

The Banshee


Henry Cowell

1943-1944

Appalachian Spring, excerpts


Arron Copland

1937

Symphony No. 5, second movement


Dmitri Shostakovich

Tin Pan Alley

NYC home to publishers and songwriters

thirty-two-bar form

4 eight bar measures


AABA


(A similar lyrics & same music B Different lyrics & music)

Contrafact

New melody over existing harmonic progression

Jazz

Music genre that came from many influences. Blues, european music, ragtime. Emphasis on improv. USA

Blues

Style more than a from. Performers express deep inner feelings. From rural work songs. African American vocal genre. Blue notes. USA



(Back Water Blues)

Classic blues

Female black vocalist.


Piano/combo accomp


12 bar form



(Back Water Blues)

Delta Blues

Black man vocalist


Acoustic guitar


Not so strict with form and lyrics


Chicago Electric Blues

Black male vocalist


Electric guitar


Originated in Chicago

Les Six

Milhaud


Auric


Honegger


Taillerferre


Poulenc


Durey

Socialist Realism

Doctrine of Soviet Union. All arts required use realist approach that puts socialism in good light.



Symphony No. 5

Formalism

Soviets didn't want. Music for its own sake.



Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk District

Sound mass

Collection of sounds that take on a certain character. (Stable or transformed)



Hyperprism

Ultramodernism

In American music between WW I-II. Developing new musical resources. Pushing all musical perimeters.



Hyperprism


Banshee

Spacial music

Music as sound mass moving through musical space instead of presentation of theme and variations or motives.



Hyperprism

Tone cluster

Diatonic or chromatic seconds. Use fist or arm to play. Coined by Cowell.



Banshee

Extended technique

Something out of tradition technique for an instrument. Expands timbre



Banshee