Music Test 4

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Igor Stravinksy

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was a Russian composer of the piece The Rite of Spring that we heard in class. The piece is famous for causing a riot at its premier due to its harsh dissonances and violent rhythms.

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Atonality

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is the absence of tonality, or key, which is characteristic of much 20th and 21stcentury works.

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Serialism or 12 tone music

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is a method of composing that uses an ordered group of musical elements to organize the piece.

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Arnold Schenber

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was a German composer who invented the use of the 12 tone scale, or serialism in music.

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Richard Strauss

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was another German composer best known for his symphonic poems and operas.

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George Gershwin

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was an American composer known for bringing the jazz influence to classical music. Best known works are Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and Pogy and Bess.

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Charles Ives

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was a well-known American composer who worked as an accountant and loved to compose music with different rhythms and melodies in different keys at the same time. He was not recognized until after his death.

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Aaron Copeland

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was known as the first great American composer, he solidified the American sound with orchestral works such as Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man, and Appalachian Spring. He was born in Brooklyn.

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Impressionism

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was a French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th century dealing with vague harmonies and rhythms to evoke a mood, place or natural phenomena. Patterned after the movement in painting.

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Claude Debussy

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was a leading composer of the above movement. One of his most famous works Is that we heard in class is Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

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Musique Concrete

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is a new 20th century form of music composed for electronic recording, which eliminates a performer and makes the music never-changing.

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Chance Music

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Is music intended to be radically different each time it is performed, leaving central elements to “chance”.

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John Cane

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invented chance music.

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Scott Joplin

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was an African American known as the “king of ragtime".

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Ragtime

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A predecessor to jazz, flourished between 1895 and 1918. Its main characteristic is syncopated rhythm and although It was composed for many different instruments and combinations of instruments, the best known examples are piano solos such as Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer.

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Bartok

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was a Hungarian composer who used his countries folk music as his main focus for composing.

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William Grant Still

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was one of the first African American composers to achieve fame. Continued Gershwin’s idea of incorporating jazz influence In classical style composition.

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Bernard Herrmann

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held a relationship with famous film director Alfred Hitchcock and wrote all his film scores until a disagreement caused them to part ways. Scores include the films The Day the Earth stood Still, Cape Fear, citizen Cane, Taxi Driver, Farenheit 451 and Obsession.

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Max Steiner

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is known as the “Father of Film Music” and the “Golden Age of Hollywood”. Australian born who became the most sought after composer for films. Famous scores Include Gone With the Wind, A summer Place, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep.

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Alex North

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was the first composer to win an honorary Academy Award. Scores Include A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, Who’s Afraid of Virginia wolf, The Misfits, Vivo Zapata, and Good Morning Vietnam.

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Gerry Goldsmith

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composed many famous television scores Including The Man from Uncle, Room 222, Star Trek, and The Waltons. Also many film scores including The Sand Pebles, Planet of the Apes, Alien, Total Recoil, First Blood, Pa pillion, Django Unchained, and First Knight

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John Williams

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teamed with Steven Spielberg to compose some of the most well known film scares of all time Including Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Jurassic Park, Schendlers List, Indiana Jones, Close Encounters Superman and Harry Potter.

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Henry Mancini

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composed many television and film scores including Days of wine and Roses, Experiment ¡n Terror, The Pink Panther, Romeo and Juliet, The Godfather, The Thorn birds, Love Story, Hatari, breaftfast at Tiffanies and Shaft.

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Danny Elfman

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teamed with director Tim Burton with scores Including The Simpsons, Batrnan, Edward Scissorhonds, Dick Tracy, Heliboy, The Hulk, Men ¡n Black, Spiderman, The Nightmare Before christmas, Aliens vs. Predators, The wolfman, Real Steel and Wanted.