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28 Cards in this Set
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Naturalism |
Looking at the lives of people from lower classes and showing their struggles with society |
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Expressionism |
Contain symbols of characters' irrational impulses which led to grotesque or violent conclusions |
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Georg Buchner |
Scientist and amateur writer who wrote the play Woyzeck |
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Johann Christian Woyzeck |
Real life person who was a solider put on trial for murdering his wife |
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Gebrauchsmusik |
Music for use, of high quality for mass audiences or educational pieces intended for young players and singers |
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Bertolt Brecht |
Berlin poet and playwright |
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The Beggar's Opera |
John Gay's famous English ballad opera |
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Epic theater |
Form of theater with songs that interrupt narrative rather than advance it |
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Zoltan Kodaly |
Friend of Bela Bartok. Created Kodaly method to improve music education |
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Popular art music |
Bartok's term for Hungarian music that was not ancient / better known types such as gypsy music |
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Parlando-rubato |
Rhythm of the melody is flexible and free from regular beat |
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cimbalom |
a Hungarian dulcimer |
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Golden Section |
A ratio that mathmaticians and artists used. Believed to be used by Bartok, though he never said it |
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Pentatonic |
Scale of 5 notes, Do Re Mi Sol La |
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Adolf Hitler |
Chancellor of Germany, Head of State, Leader of the Nazis |
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Nazis |
Germany's strongest and most radical political party |
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Third Reich |
Nazi empire |
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Joseph Goebbels |
minister of the Department of Education and Propaganda |
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cultural bolshevism |
Pieces that used dissonance and atonality, seen as degenerate |
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The Craft of Musical Composition |
A treatise by Hindemith on how the 12 notes of the chromatic scale and the intervals they form have a hierarchy of differing strengths. |
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Matthias Grunewald |
Renaissance German painter |
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Wilheim Furtwanger |
conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the leading German conductor of his day, wrote The Hindemith Case to argue that Mathis Symphony should be allowed to be performed |
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Anatoli Lunacharsky |
Vladmir Lenin's minister for the arts and respected writer and critic |
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Andrei Zhdanov |
An artist in the Union of Soviet Composers who had ultimate control over music |
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socialist realism |
Music of optimism and idealistic thinking without elaborate melody or harmonic enrichment |
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formalism |
Music that deviated from the norm in harmony, rhythm, tonality and form |
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Sviatoslav Richter |
Virtuoso piano who interpreted Prokofiev's 7th piano sonata |
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Peter and the Wolf |
A symphonic tale for narrator and orchestra by Prokofiev |
