Music Test 4

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Leading American Song Composer of 19th century

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Stephen Foster

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Many of his songs were for minstrel shows

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Stephen Foster

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self-taught (as were many Romantics)

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Stephen Foster

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Made living as a songwriter

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Stephen Foster

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a parlor song

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I Dream of Jeanie

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compared with Schubert's "Heidenroslein"

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I Dream of Jeanie

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near absence of non-chord tones, few present have strong effect

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I Dream of Jeanie

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A natural musician: born improviser

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Scott Joplin

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played in saloons, brothels, but was a "cultivated musician," wanted in opera house and concert hall

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Scott Joplin

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Treemonisha: an opera

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Scott Joplin

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awarded Pullitzer prize posthumously

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Scott Joplin

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sold millions of copies of sheet music

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Maple Leaf Rag

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Ragtime

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Maple Leaf Rag

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8th note accompaniment, syncopated melody

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Maple Leaf Rag

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rhythmic idiom is African with other European elements

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Maple Leaf Rag

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the Boogie Woogie style

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Meade "Lux" Lewis, "Honky Tonk Train"

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emphasis on backbeat: emphasis on beats 2 and 4

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Meade "Lux" Lewis, "Honky Tonk Train"

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12 bar blues progression

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Meade "Lux" Lewis, "Honky Tonk Train"

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music about misfortune

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Country music

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fiddle & guitar (give artist & musician)

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Patsy Montana, "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"

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yodeling

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Patsy Montana, "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"

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chromatically altered chords

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Patsy Montana, "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"

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instrumentation contained fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass in this type of music

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Bluegrass

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regular performances on the Grand Ole Opry in this type of music

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Bluegrass

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artist & song with virtuosic instrumental playing

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Bill Monroe, "Why Did You Wander"

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fast tempo in this song

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"Why Did You Wander"

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solo improv between sections in this song

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"Why Did You Wander"

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this song contained vocal harmonies (tenor)

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"Why Did You Wander"

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this song contains lots of repetition

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"Why Did You Wander"

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this type of music along with country were principle ingredients of rock and roll

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Rhythm and Blues

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This was a type of African American music

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Rhythm and Blues

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Small companies drove this type of musics development

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Rhythm and Blues

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What were the main differences bet. Big Mamma Thorton's "Hound Dog" and Elvis'

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more relaxed tempo

stronger blues influence

suggestive lyrics

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What were the main similarities bet. Big Mamma Thorton's "Hound Dog" and Elvis'

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12 bar blues progression

versel chorus form: same music in verses and chords

composed by white songwriting team

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This song was a cover of Bob Dylan

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The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"

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This song Beatle-ized Bob Dylan according to its composers

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The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"

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This song had elaborate orchestration

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The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"

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This song contains rich vocal harmonies

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The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"

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Manipulation of allusions is a principal characteristic of much 20th century "art music"

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The Beatles

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This artist showed soul happening in African American music

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Marvin Gaye, "I heard it through the Grapevine"

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This songs musical style had sophisticated orchestration

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"I heard it through the Grapevine"

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This song contains rich harmony (background vocals)

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"I heard it through the Grapevine"

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This song has emotional sincerity

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"I heard it through the Grapevine"

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This song has a strong connection to the blues

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"I heard it through the Grapevine"

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This composer was a trouble virtuoso (like Beethoven and Paganini)

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Stevie Ray Vaughn

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This refers to a male singer with his own guitar accompaniment

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Delta Blues Tradition (Stevie Ray Vaughn)

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Delta Blues Tradition has what effect by the guitar and accompaniment being from the same source

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call and response (Stevie Ray Vaughn)

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This composer shows a Jazz/Rock fusion

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears, "Spinning Wheel"

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What were 3 Jazz components of Blood, Sweat, and Tears' "Spinning Wheel"

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complex arrangement, brass improvisation

syncopation

trumpet solo in clear jazz style

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What were 2 Rock components of Blood, Sweat, and Tears' "Spinning Wheel"

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single vocal melody

minimum improvisation

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This type of music refers to "musical" = "musical comedy"

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Broadway

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This era of music is like an opera buffa in that its not all comic

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Broadway

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Most Broadway shows deal with what?

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social issues / social injustice

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What was the 1st great Broadway musical?

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Kern and Hammerstein's "Show Boat"

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What were the main problems that were contrasted by human and there problems and nature in Kern and Hammerstein's "Show Boat?"

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physical and psychological abuse

addiction to gambling

alcoholism

racism

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non-bluesy orchestration is seen in which song from "Show Boat?"

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"Can't Help Lovin Dat Man O Mine"

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a blues inflected vocal line is seen in which song of "Show Boat?"

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"Can't Help Lovin Dat Man O Mine"

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What of Julie's is expressed in "Show Boat"'s "Can't Help Lovin Dat Man O Mine?"

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Julie's racially diverse background

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what song has AABA song form?

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"Ol Man River"

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what song features musical lignity: low notes, slow tempo?

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"Ol Man River"

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What song is sung by Joe, a black ferry loader and unloader

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"Ol Man River" (from "Show Boat" Broadway)

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whcih song in "Show Boat" has a folksy pentatonic tune

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"Ol Man River"

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" is what kind of story?

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wholesome traditional love story

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Who composed the broadway "Oklahoma"

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

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what is "Oklahoma" about?

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a wholesome traditional love story

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name two characteristics of Ado Annie's "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No"

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simple innocent melodic line is ironic

chromatic intensification - like Mozart's "Figaro"

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in what song is the 1st verse about technology and the second about other things

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Will in "Kansas City"

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name a feature of "Pore Jud is Dead"

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somber, chordal, churchlike texture in honor of deceased

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name three features in "People Will Say We're In Love"

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legato, lyrical melodic line

"tendency tones" are highlighted

sweet chromaticism

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who composed "West Side Story"

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Bernstein and Sondheim

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who was one of the greatest American musicians?

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Leonard Bernstein

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what was the cultural conflict in "West Side Story?"

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Puerto Ricans vs. white Americans

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What was the musical conflict in "West Side Story?"

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the tritone

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"West Side Story" features this dissonant interval known in Middle Ages as "the devil in music"

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tritone

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Bernstein used the tritone to suggest two things, what were they?

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conflict and yearning

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"Tonight" is in what broadway?

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"West Side Story"

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how is conflict suggested in "West Side Story"

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through non-imitative polyphony

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19th century opera composer?

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Richard Wagner

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what were some of Wagner's problems?

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colossal ego, moral depravity in Anti-Semitism

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who had a method of integrating music and drama which became a standard approach for film composers?

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Richard Wagner

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What were Gesumtkunsktwerks and what are they also known as?

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what Wagner called his operas, synonym = music drama

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which compposer had orchestral music being more impportant than vocal lines?

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Richard Wagner

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how did Wagner show orchestral music was more important than vocal lines?

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through Sprechgesang (speech song)

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Richard Wagner's orchestras present symphonic arrangements of what that help listeners follow music

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leitmotives

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Name a performance of 4 operas in 4 nights

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The Ring of Nibelung

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what was the socialpolitical message of The Ring of Nibelung?

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ring giving power to one drives everyone crazy

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What is Bayreuth

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location of Wagner's theatre and works

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who was trained in 19th century symphonic Romanticism?

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John Williams

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name 2 composers influenced by Wagner?

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John Williams, Bernard Herrmann

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who employed the complex use of leitmotives?

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John Williams in Star Wars "Main Theme"

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what 2 features displayed musical heroism in Star Wars "Main Theme?"

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rising, disjunct line

prominent horns

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Darth Vader's Theme had what three features?

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disjunct line focusing on descending leaps

sinister minor mode

emphasis on 6th scale degree

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who wrote "Psycho"

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Bernard Herrmann

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name three features of Psycho

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extreme dissonance

shrill string timbre

strong, regular accents (plunging knife)