Music Test 1

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Franz Schubert

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(1797 - 1828) Tracks 1, 16, 19

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Monophonic

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Complex

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Homophonic Texture

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Lied (Art Song) a primary melodic part supported by subsidiary accompanimental voices, Franz, primary melody with a voice and instrument, character in front - homophonic would be the landscape in the background

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Textures

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the layers of patterned activity that a composer superimposes to achieve a distinct hierarchy within they musical discourse

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Strophic Form

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Simplest form, poetry, song setting, same melody even as text changes, often associated with song (lied) settings of poems with symmetrical stanzas, material repeats: AAAA

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Tertian Harmony

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Chords based on thirds

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Orlando Gibbons

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(1583 - 1625) Hymnes and Songs of the Church. 19 The Lamentation of David. Interested in human nature

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Ternary Form

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ABA usually A and B contrast in musica ideas

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Thomas Tomkins

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(1572-1656) Great Service (The)/Anthems. 5 When David heard. Had son who wasn't Catholic but son took care of him

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Motet

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1. Descriptive music but avoids word painting (not going to draw out individual text - trys to create mood)
2. Often, but not always, a setting of a sacred text
3. Comes from the French for 'word'- or a 'Verbal utterance'
4. Usually polyphonic textures (difficult kind of listening)

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Music of the Cinema

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'Silent Era'
'Era of Sound'

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Sergei Prokofiev

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(1891-1953) Russian composer. Joseph Stalin wanted Prokofiev to make a movie against Germany. Alexander Nevsky was the Russian hero in the movie.
5. The Battle on Ice
6. The Field of the Dead

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Leitmotif

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"Guiding" themes for dramatic works, often musical materials that are connected with a character or idea that are transformed throughout the drama to match the action. Example: Star wars, bad guy music always play when bad guy enters

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Edgard Varese

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(1883-1965)Arcana /Integrales /Deserts
French but identified himself as American. Interested in technology, aggressive music

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Intergrales

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Interest come in and out, same sounds, rearranged differently

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Iannis Xenakis

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(1922-2001) Orchestral Works, Vol. one. 2. Tracees. Greek, interested in math, articuture. Foughted in WWII, got hurt on left side of face - hard to see but heard sounds of war, designed buildings, wanted his buildings to be walking into another experience. Our professor worked with him. Wind, purrcussion, string. Sounds kind of like a battle. Physical feels strange, wrote music in differently way sometimes (loos like a graph) Unpredictablity - one musican playing a lot of instruments

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'Stochastic' Music

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Aural (hearing) outcomes result from both known and unknown causes (flock of birds - you see whole flock usually not just one individual)

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'Mass Sonority"

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Idea of a lot of sound