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54 Cards in this Set
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Debussy: Prelude to "The afternoon of a faun" 1894 |
Genre: Symphonic poem rhythm: free flowing texture: homophonic impressionism
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part I 1913 |
ballet nationalistic polyrhythms disjunct melody |
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, No. 18 1912 |
song cycle fast free flowing rhythm expressionism texture: contrapurtal |
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Berg: Wozzeck, Act III, Scene 4 1922 |
opera expressionist alternates between metric and free flowing rhythm dissonant and chromatic harmony |
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Bartok: Interrupted Intermezzo, from Concerto for Orchesrta 1943 |
orchestral concerto form: rondo harmony: polytonal and atonal, dissonant irregular rhythms |
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Orff: O fortuna 1936 |
secular cantata texture: simple homorhythmic prominent percussion
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Ives: country band march 1903 |
march duple meter polytonal harmony American modernism |
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Still: Suite for Violin , 3rd movement 1943 |
instrumental suite duple meter rhythm texture: homophonic American nationalism |
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Copeland: Appalachian Spring Section 1 1945 |
ballet suite rhythm slow and tranquil individual instruments featured American nationalism
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Copeland: Appalachian Spring Section 7 1945 |
ballet suite rhythm: flowing duple meter harmony moves between various keys clam and flowing
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Revueltas: Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca, 3rd movement 1937 |
chamber suite syncopated rhythm dissonant harmony texture: polyphonic |
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Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag |
piano rag rhythm: marlike duple meter texture: homophonic syncopated melody |
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Holiday: Billie's blues 1936 |
12-bar blues texture: polyphonic syncopated slow tempo steady rhythm |
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Stayhorn: take the A train, by the Duke Ellington orchestra 1941 |
big band jazz syncopated complex harmony broad quadruple meter |
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Gershwin: Summertime, from Porgy and Bess 1935 |
aria from folk opera syncopated melody texture: homophonic strophic form |
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Bernstein: West Side Story Tonight Quintet 1957 |
musical theatre American astinato texture fast tempo rhythm |
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Williams: Raiders march |
film music leitmotif ternary form orchestra |
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Impressionism |
french movement to capture 1st impression characterized by modal and exotic scales , unresolved dissonances, parallel chords, rich orchestral color, and free rhythm
free flowing rhythm |
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symbolism |
writings are suggestive of images and ideas |
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expressionism |
counterpart to impressionism, explore new harmonic systems and extreme registers of instruments
colorful orchestral effects, tonal, dissonant harmonies |
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neoclassical |
revive objectivity returned to formal structures |
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chromatic scale |
impressionist composers make use of the entire scale |
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whole tone scale |
built entirely of whole tone intervals (without half steps) |
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polyrhythms |
simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns |
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changing meter |
constant metrical flow shift, sometime with each measure |
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polychords |
highly dissonant |
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polyharmony |
two or more streams of harmony |
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polytonality |
heightening the contrast of two keys by presenting them simultaneously |
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tone row |
arangment of 12 chromatic tones |
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serialism/ dodecaphonic |
composing with 12 tones |
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transposed row |
same pattern of intervals but begins on a different pitch |
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inversion |
movement of notes is in the opposite direction |
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retrograde |
arangement of pitches in reverse order, row comes out backwards |
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retrograde inversion |
turns the row upside down and backwards |
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formalism |
valuing the formal above the expressive |
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second viennese school |
berg, webers, schoenberg |
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sprechstimme |
spoken voice, vocal melody is spoken instead of sung |
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klangfarbenmelodie |
tone-color melody, each note of a melody is played by a different instrument |
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ethnomusicologists |
study music in cultural and global context |
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stride |
syncopated violin line accompanied by an insistent bass that resembles the jazz piano style |
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vaudeville |
type of comedic musical sketch, many written by immigrant composers |
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tin pan alley |
writers and publishers of popular music, many were set up in manhattan |
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jazz |
blends elements of african tradition with western music |
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ragtime |
developed from african-american piano style syncopated rhythms and sectional forms |
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blues |
american form of folk music, simple repetitive poetic musical structure |
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new orleans style jazz |
small ensemble improvising simultaneously |
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1940's |
smaller group styles bebop, cool jazz, west coast jazz |
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third stream jazz |
borrowed elements of art music fusion, neoclassical, free jazz, new age jazz |
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scat singing |
sylables without meaning (vocables) are set to improvised vocal line |
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operetta |
comic opera |
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underscoring |
when music comes from an unseen source |
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source music |
music functioing as part of the drama itself |
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leitmotif |
musical themes for characters |
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rock and roll |
strong baseline, amplification, metric, drums, expressive vocals |
