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Music History 3 Exam 1
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| 209264652 | The first conservatory was established in... | Paris | |
| 209264653 | Musicians supported themselves by what means? | public performance, teaching, and composing for commissions and publications | |
| 209264654 | What are some Romantic themes? | love, nature, the past, myths, dreams, supernatural, irrational | |
| 209264655 | define song cycle | songs that are grouped into collections with a unifying characteristic, such as a single poet or common theme | |
| 209264656 | what was the first song cycle? | An die ferne Geliebte | |
| 209264657 | Who wrote the first song cycle? | Beethoven | |
| 209264658 | What are Beethoven's dates? | 1770-1827 | |
| 209264659 | When was Beethoven's first compositional period? (the early period) | 1792-1802 | |
| 209264660 | What piano sonatas did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 1-20 | |
| 209264661 | What was the most significant piano sonata that Beethoven wrote in his early period? | Sonate pathetique (Sonata with Pathos) Op. 13 in C Minor | |
| 209264662 | What many symphonies did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 1-2 | |
| 209264663 | What is the most significant symphony that Beethoven wrote in his early period? | Symphony No. 1 in C Major | |
| 209264664 | What string quartets did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 1-6 | |
| 209264665 | What is the most significant string quartet that Beethoven wrote in his early period? | Op. 18 | |
| 209264666 | What violin sonatas did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 1-5 | |
| 209264667 | What trios did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 1-4 | |
| 209264668 | What piano concertos did Beethoven write in his early period? | Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15 in C Major and Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 19 in Bb Major | |
| 209264669 | What were the years of Beethoven's second compositional period, aka his middle period? | 1802-1814 | |
| 209264670 | What piano sonatas did Beethoven write in his middle period? | Nos. 21-27 | |
| 209264671 | What were the most significant piano sonatas that Beethoven wrote in his middle period? | Waldstein, Appassionata, and Farewell | |
| 209264672 | What many symphonies did Beethoven write in his middle period? | Nos. 3-8 | |
| 209264673 | What were the most significant symphonies that Beethoven wrote in his middle period? | Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major (Eroica), Symphony No. 5, and Symphony No. 6 (The Pastoral) | |
| 209264674 | What string quartets did Beethoven write in his middle period? | Nos. 7-11 | |
| 209264675 | What violin sonatas did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 6-10 | |
| 209264676 | What piano concertos did Beethoven write in his early period? | Nos. 3-5 | |
| 209264677 | What was the most significant piano concerto the Beethoven wrote in his middle period? | Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb Major | |
| 209264678 | What was the only violin concerto that Beethoven wrote in his middle period? | Violin Concerto in D Major | |
| 209264679 | How many triple concertos did Beethoven write in his middle period? | one | |
| 209264680 | What were the most significant string quartets that Beethoven wrote in his middle period? | 3 Razumovsky Quartets, Op. 59 | |
| 209264681 | What was the most significant violin sonata that Beethoven wrote in his middle period? | Archduke Trio | |
| 209264682 | What was Beethoven's only opera? | Fidelio | |
| 209264683 | What compositional period did Beethoven compose Fidelio? | his middle period | |
| 209264684 | When was Beethoven's third compositional period, aka his late period? | 1814-1827 | |
| 209264685 | What piano sonatas did Beethoven compose in his late period? | Nos. 28-32 | |
| 209264686 | What was the most significant piano sonata that Beethoven wrote in his late period? | The Diabelli Variations for Piano | |
| 209264687 | What string quartets did Beethoven composer in his late period? | Nos. 12-16 | |
| 209264688 | What were the most significant string quartets Beethoven wrote in his late period? | The Great Fugue and String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, p. 131 | |
| 209264689 | What cello sonatas did Beethoven write in his late period? | Nos. 4-5 | |
| 209264690 | What major choral work did Beethoven compose in his late period? | Missa solemnis | |
| 209264691 | What symphony did Beethoven write in his late period?What | No. 9 | |
| 209264692 | What compositional period did Beethoven write the first song cycle? | his late period | |
| 209264693 | When was the Congress of Vienna? | 1814-1815 | |
| 209264694 | When did Beethoven learn about his deafness? | 1802 | |
| 209264695 | What was the significance of the Heiligenstadt Testament? | Beethoven's confession of considering suicide but finding salvation in his music | |
| 209264696 | Describe Sonate pathetique's title | suggests suffering and a tragic mode of expression | |
| 209264697 | how many movements is the Sonate pathetique? | 3 | |
| 209264698 | describe the first movement of Sonate pathetique | begins with a dramatic slow intro, which returns twice during the movement | |
| 210359202 | describe the middle movement of Sonate pathetique. | is in A-flat major | |
| 210359203 | describe the finale of Sonate pathetique. | returns to the stormy mood and key of the first movement | |
| 210359204 | describe Fidelio | based on a rescue plot: Leonore, dressed as a man, rescues her husband from prison | |
| 210359205 | what was the theme of Fidelio's plot? | heroism and humanitarian ideas of the Revolution | |
| 210359206 | what genre did An die Ferne Geliebte fall under? | German Lied | |
| 210359207 | what was the nickname for Beethoven's 3rd symphony? | Eroica | |
| 210359208 | What was the nickname for Beethoven's 6th symphony? | the Pastoral | |
| 210359209 | what was the nickname for the 5th piano concerto? | the Emperor | |
| 210359210 | what was the nickname for the String Quartet op. 59? | 3 Razumovsky Quartets | |
| 210359211 | which composer was a model for Missa Solemnis? | Handel | |
| 210359212 | what is specific for the 9th symphony? | was with chorus and solo voices | |
| 210359213 | what was Schubert known as? | the first great master of the Romantic Lied | |
| 210359214 | where was Schubert born and spend his entire career? | Vienna | |
| 210359215 | what was impressive about his composition output? | he composed with astonishing speed and wrote over 140 songs in 1815 alone | |
| 210359216 | how many Lieder did Schubert end up writing? | over 600 | |
| 210359217 | what is characteristic for the piano part in his Lieder? | was always reflective of an image in the song's poem | |
| 210359218 | name two song cycles Schubert wrote | Die schone Mullerin and Winterreise | |
| 210359219 | name two art songs Schubert wrote that we studied in class | Gretchen am Spinnrade and Erlkonig | |
| 210359220 | Schubert's major piano genre was what? | sonata | |
| 210359221 | what were Schubert's dates? | 1797-1828 | |
| 210359222 | what was Schubert's major piano work? | Wanderer Fantasy | |
| 210359223 | what modulations were frequent in Schubert's songs and instrumental works? | thirds rather than fifths | |
| 210359224 | what was Schubert's trademark? | alteration between a major and a minor | |
| 210359225 | who did Schubert end up influencing when it came to harmonic practice? | Liszt | |
| 210359226 | what were Schumann's dates | 1810-1856 | |
| 210359227 | how many songs did Schumann write in his "year of song?" | 120 | |
| 210359228 | when was Schumann's "year of song"? | 1840 | |
| 210359229 | name two song cycles Schumann wrote: | Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und-leben | |
| 210359230 | what did Schumann do for a living other than compose music? | wrote articles on music for a journal he co-founded and edited | |
| 210359231 | what was the journal he wrote for called? | Neue Zeitschrift fur Music | |
| 210359232 | what was unique about how Schumann made his opinion known in his journal? | used various pen names | |
| 210359233 | what instrument was all of Schumann's published music before 1840 for? | piano | |
| 210359234 | most of Schumann's works before 1840 were what type of piece? | short character pieces | |
| 210359235 | how were Schumann's character pieces grouped together? | in sets with colorful names | |
| 210359236 | describe Carnaval, Op. 9 | was to depict a masquerade ball in carnival season, was 20 short pieces in dance rhythm | |
| 210359237 | what was Carnaval subtitled? | Little Scenes on Four Notes | |
| 210359238 | what did the four little notes used in Carnaval do? | puzzle the listener | |
| 210359239 | how are the pieces in Carnaval connected? | by a recurring motif of 4 notes | |
| 210359240 | where was Schumann born? | Asch, Germany | |
| 210359241 | what are Felix Mendelssohn's dates? | 1809-1847 | |
| 210359242 | describe blended characteristics from important composers that Felix Mendelssohn used in his piano music | contrapuntal activity and formal clarity, romantic expression, beautiful melodies, interesting and often unpredictable melodies, fluent technique | |
| 210359243 | what types of piano music were F. Mendelssohn's larger piano works? | 3 sonatas, variations, and fantasias | |
| 210359244 | what piece written by Mendelssohn helped to define the genre of a character piece? | Seven Character Pieces | |
| 210359245 | name an important work by Mendelssohn | Lieder ohne Worte | |
| 210359246 | describe Lieder ohne Worte | 48 works in 8 books | |
| 210359247 | what did Mendelssohn believe about music? | that music could express feelings that words cannot | |
| 210359248 | what are Chopin's dates? | 1810-1849 | |
| 210359249 | where was Chopin born? | Poland | |
| 210359250 | where did Chopin move as an established performer? | Paris | |
| 210359251 | what instrument did Chopin compose almost exclusively for? | piano | |
| 210359252 | what were the 6 genres that Chopin worte in? | etudes, preludes, dances, nocturnes, ballads and scherzos, sonatas | |
| 210359253 | what was significant of Chopin's etudes? | were the first with significant artistic content and can be called concert etudes | |
| 210359254 | name his most famous sonata? | Sonata No. 2 in Bb Minor, Op. 35 | |
| 210359255 | define rubato style | a departure from the regular pulse either in the right hand only or with both hands together | |
| 210359256 | who were some of Liszt's influences | his Hungarian roots, Carl Czemy, Antonio Salieri, Berlioz, Chopin, and Nicolo Paganini | |
| 210359257 | who was Liszt's most important influence? | Nicolo Paganini | |
| 210359258 | how many compositions did Liszt write? | over 700 | |
| 210359259 | how many of Liszt's compositions for written for solo piano? | over 100 | |
| 210359260 | what is Liszt's most important sonata? | Sonata in B Minor | |
| 210359261 | why is Liszt's Sonata in B Minor important? | was his only work in this genre and is considered one of the greatest piano sonatas and one of his best works for piano | |
| 210359262 | name one of Liszt's concert etudes | Un sospiro | |
| 210359263 | describe Hungarian Rhapsodies | the meter and rhythm are flexible, used gypsy scale | |
| 210359264 | name 3 character pieces that Liszt wrote | Years of Pilgrimage, Poetic and Flexible Harmonies, Legends | |
| 210359265 | what were Liszt's dates? | 1811-1886 |
History III Exam 1 (Part 1/2)
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| 133275003 | Des Knaben Wunderhorn | A collection of songs for voice and piano set to a group of German folk poems which are called _____ | |
| 133275004 | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen | Mahler's first song cycle, influenced by Des Knaben Wunderhorn | |
| 133470465 | Progressive tonality | This is the practice in which a piece ends on a different key than it began in. It is found in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. | |
| 133470466 | fin de siecle | End of the last century (1800-1900's) | |
| 133470467 | Weltanschauungsmusik | Music expressive of a world outlook... Philosophy-music... Works of hugely ambitious dimensions... the Modernist's answer to "absolute music" | |
| 133470468 | Todtenfeier | The first movement of Mahler's symphony No. 2, originally composed as a symphonic poem. It existed that way for several years before acquiring its companion movements. | |
| 133470469 | Urlicht | A Wunderhorn song "Primordial light" set as the fourth movement of Mahler's 2nd symphony. It illustrates the longing of relief from worldly woes and answers to questions set forth in Todtenfeier. It is an alto solo serving as an intro to the Finale, similar to the bass recitative in Beethoven's 9th. | |
| 133470470 | Das Lied von der Erde | A song-symphony (song cycle+symphony) for two soloists and orchestra in six movements, composed by Mahler. He left this work unnumbered as a symphony because of the "curse of the ninth." | |
| 133480327 | Tolerance of Dissonance | The idea that Mahler and other composers incorporated in their works to construct massive chords. Especially found in the 2nd and 10th Mahler Symphonies. | |
| 133492297 | Siegmund Freud | Mahler visited this person to receive marital counseling. Due to him, Mahler let Alma compose during the last 6 months of his life. | |
| 133492298 | Alma Mahler | Part of the "Mahler circle." She was 19 years younger than Mahler, but became his wife. She was initially instructed that she would not compose herself, but after she had an affair, Mahler allowed her to publish 5 of her own songs. | |
| 133492299 | Bruno Walter | Part of the "Mahler circle." A German born conductor responsible for bringing and stabilizing Mahler's music in the USA. He was raised a Jew, but converted to Catholicism. Premiered Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and his 9th symphony. | |
| 133492300 | Otto Klemperer | Part of the "Mahler circle." A German born conductor responsible for bringing and stabilizing Mahler's music to England. Fled to USA and became Music Director of the LA Philharmonic | |
| 133492301 | Willem Mengelberg | Part of the "Mahler circle." A Dutch conductor responsible for bringing and stabilizing Mahler's music to The Netherlands. Became Music Director of the NY Philharmonic | |
| 135195976 | Songs of a Wayfarer | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (English translation) | |
| 135195977 | The Youth's Magic Horn | Des Knaben Wunderhorn (English translation) | |
| 135195978 | Mahler | - A 19th century Austro-German conductor/composer - In his lifetime his status as a conductor was not questioned, but it was only after his death that his compositions became well known, due in part to a ban on performing his compositions in Europe during the Nazi era. - Incorporated progressive tonality and the concept of maximalization in his compositions. Because of this, his music could be termed as weltanschauungsmusik. - Went to the Vienna Conservatory for theory, composition and conducting. - Conducted operas, composed symphonies | |
| 135195979 | Reverie | - No real melody - Variations above repetitive chord progressions - Piece is about the embellishment of a basic harmony - Half step voice leading over circle of fifths - Piano solo composed by Richard Strauss | |
| 135195980 | Salome | - One act opera with five scenes - Premiered in Dresden in 1905 - Grotesque material - Large instrumentation/orchestra - Decadent (Large amounts of money required to produce the opera) - Half-step voice leading predominant in this work - Operas influenced by Wagner - "Futuristic" harmonic language - Half-step chord changes replace standard I-IV-V-I progressions - Focus on symmetrical division of the octave (tritone, whole tone scale, diminished seventh chords) - Uses different keys as a tonal center, and each key represents different characters | |
| 135195981 | 1905 | Salome premiered in Dresden in this year: _____ | |
| 135195982 | Dresden | Salome premiered in this city in 1905: _____ | |
| 135195983 | Wagner | Strauss's operas were influenced by _____ | |
| 135195984 | Half-step | _____ voice leading and chord progressions (replacing standard I-IV-V-I progressions) are prevalent in the two operas Elektra and Salome by Strauss. | |
| 135195985 | symmetrical division | Strauss used the tritone, whole tone scale, and diminished seventh chords to create a _____ _____ of the octave which is found in Salome, but most prevalent in Elektra. | |
| 135195986 | keys | In Salome, Strauss uses different _____ to represent the characters. | |
| 135195987 | melody | Reverie, composed by Strauss, has no real _____ | |
| 135195988 | Strauss | Reverie was composed by _____ | |
| 135195989 | Strauss | This German composer illustrated decadence in composing: _____ | |
| 135195990 | Strauss | Salome and Elektra were composed by: _____ | |
| 135195991 | Strauss | The works of this composer were so decadent, that theaters started refusing to play his pieces. | |
| 135195992 | Reverie | A piano solo composed by Richard Strauss: _____ | |
| 135195993 | Salome | An opera with grotesque elements that uses different tonal centers to represent different characters. | |
| 135195994 | Austrian | Mahler's nationality is _____ | |
| 135195995 | German | Strauss's nationality is _____ | |
| 135195996 | voice piano | Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn is a collection of songs for _____ and _____ based on German folk poems | |
| 135195997 | song cycle | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen is Mahler's first _____ _____ | |
| 135195998 | The Song of the Earth | Das Lied von der Erde (English translation) | |
| 135289184 | Oscar Wilde | _____ _____ wrote the French play Salomé, which Strauss based the libretto of his own opera with the same name, Salome, off of. | |
| 135289185 | Dance of the Seven Veils | - Basically a strip dance by Salome - A dance to incestuously entice King Herod into agreeing to behead John the Baptist | |
| 135289186 | Elektra | - An opera - Plot based upon a Greek tragedy of the same same - Extreme maximalism - Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Premiered in Dresden in 1909 - Large and unusual orchestra | |
| 135289187 | Hugo von Hofmannstahl | - A poet and librettist, among other things - Wrote the libretti for two of Strauss's operas: Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier - Born the same year as Schoenberg - Met Strauss in 1900 - Collaborated with Strauss a total of 6 times - Even though Strauss was 10 years older, he still thought of this guy as a mentor | |
| 135289188 | Greek | Elektra's plot is based upon a _____ tragedy | |
| 135289189 | 1909 Dresden | Elektra premiered in the year _____ in the city of _____ | |
| 135289190 | Strauss | Elektra was composed by _____ | |
| 135289191 | Hugo von Hofmannstahl | _____ _____ _____ collaborated with Strauss on a total of 6 operas | |
| 135289192 | 1900 | Strauss met Hugo von Hofmannstahl in the year _____ | |
| 135289193 | Der Rosenkavalier | - A comic opera - Three acts - Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Romantic comedy - Premiered in Dresden in 1911 | |
| 135289194 | Der Rosenkavalier | This opera, _____ _____, has three acts and was written by Strauss. | |
| 135289195 | 1911 | Der Rosenkavalier premiered in Dresden in the year _____ | |
| 135289196 | Elektra chord | The _____ _____ is what Strauss used to represent the title character of his opera Elektra - Bitonal synthesis of E major and C-sharp major - It could be called a polychord | |
| 135289197 | Tondichtung | - German word for tone poem - Orchestral piece - This style was premiered by Liszt - Strauss and Liszt both composed many of these kinds of pieces | |
| 135289198 | Elektra chord | The polychord of E major and C# major could be referred to as the _____ _____ | |
| 135289199 | Also sprach Zarathustra | - A tone poem - Orchestral - Based on Nietzsche's treatise of the same name - Music used in the 1968 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey" | |
| 135289200 | Tone poem | Tondichtung (English translation) | |
| 135289201 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Also sprach Zarathustra (English translation) | |
| 135289202 | tone poem | Also sprach Zarathustra is a _____ _____ | |
| 135289203 | Strauss | - A 19th century agnostic German conductor/composer. - Follower of Nietzsche - He incorporated half-step progressions rather then "normal" I-V-I progressions. - Known for "decadent" music - Conducted symphonies, composed operas | |
| 135289204 | Strauss | _____ was known for composing decadent music | |
| 135426720 | C Minor | Mahler's 2nd Symphony is in the key of _____ _____ | |
| 135426721 | Resurrection | The nickname given to Mahler's 2nd symphony is _____ | |
| 135426722 | F# Major | Mahler's 10th Symphony is in the key of _____ _____ | |
| 136188045 | Verklarte Nacht 4 | _____ _____, Op. _____ - Tone poem - "Transfigured Night" - String Sextet - Followed narrative poem by R. Dehmel (leading "decadent") - Rejected by the Vienna Musicians club due to "compositional error" (in actuality, they didn't like the dissonance, OR the subject matter.) | |
| 136188046 | Verklarte Nacht 4 | A tone poem composed by Arnold Schoenberg is: _____ _____, Op. _____ | |
| 136188047 | 6 | Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4, a tone poem by Schoenberg has _____ string instruments | |
| 136188048 | rejected | Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4 was _____ by the Vienna Musicians club due to the dissonance. | |
| 136188049 | Transfigured Night | Verklarte Nacht (English translation) | |
| 136188050 | atonal | Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 in F# Minor, Op. 10 is freely _____ | |
| 136188051 | Erwartung 17 | _____, Op. _____ by Schoenberg - Atonal triads - Mini opera - Crazy woman who may or may not have killed her lover in the forest - Musically ends unresolved | |
| 136188052 | unresolved | Erwartung, Op. 17 has a musically _____ ending | |
| 136188053 | Erwartung Schoenberg | The mini opera, _____, about a crazy woman and her lover in the forest was composed by _____ | |
| 136188054 | atonal | Erwartung contains several not tonal, but _____ triads | |
| 136188055 | Verklarte Nacht 4 | A piece by Schoenberg containing 6 string instruments: _____ _____, Op. _____ | |
| 136188056 | Sechs kleine Klavierstucke 19 | _____ _____ _____, Op. _____ - Six little piano pieces - Very atonal | |
| 136188057 | Sechs kleine Klavierstucke 19 piano | _____ _____ _____, Op. _____ is a set of pieces written for _____ by Schoenberg that sound very atonal | |
| 136188058 | Pierrot lunaire 21 | _____ _____, Op. _____ - Atonal, but does not use 12-tone technique - Foreshadows 12 tone technique - A melodrama - Setting of 21 poems for voice and instruments | |
| 136188059 | Pierrot lunaire 21 | _____ _____, Op. _____ foreshadows Schoenberg's 12-tone technique | |
| 136188060 | poems | Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 is a musical setting of 21 _____ | |
| 136188061 | Pierrot lunaire | Schoenberg believed in numerology, so his _____ _____, Op. 21 is a setting of 21 poems | |
| 136188062 | Harmonielehre | - Harmony textbook (by Schoenberg) for regular theory - ending chapters begin discussing PANtonality, which is the inference of all 12 keys being the tonic; pantonality = 12 tone composition - Also discussed emancipation of dissonance, fluctuating and suspended tonality | |
| 136188063 | Harmonielehre | _____ is a harmony textbook that discusses the 12-tone technique | |
| 136188064 | Schoenberg | Harmonielehre was written by _____ | |
| 136188065 | Emancipation of dissonance | _____ _____ _____ - We no longer need justification for voice leading - Kills concept of traditional chord function | |
| 136188066 | Fluctuating tonality | _____ _____ - A key that is suggested but never fully established through a cadence | |
| 136188067 | Suspended tonality | _____ _____ - No key is set (usually cycles through lots of keys) - Uses motivic consistency to remain coherent | |
| 136188068 | chord function | Schoenberg's 'Emancipation of dissonance' eradicates the concept of traditional _____ _____ | |
| 136188069 | Grundgestalt | _____ - The basic shape of a piece - The phrase that contains the essential material - The phrase that everything in the piece can be derived from - ESCHBEG, Schoenberg's name written in the music using the German notations, serves as a Grundgestalt in many of his and Berg's pieces | |
| 136188070 | ESCHBEG | Schoenberg's name written in German notation, used as a Grundgestalt in many of his pieces: _____ | |
| 136188071 | Grundgestalt | The phrase that contains the primal motifs of a piece is called the _____ | |
| 136188072 | suspended tonality | A piece in which no key is set is using _____ _____ | |
| 136188073 | fluctuating tonality | A piece in which a key is suggested, but never confirmed is using _____ _____ | |
| 136188074 | voice leading | Schoenberg's 'Emancipation of dissonance' tells us that we no longer need justification for _____ _____ | |
| 136188075 | Atonal triad | _____ _____ - Combo of P4 and tritone, stacking them will eventually use all 12 pitches | |
| 136188076 | Schoenberg | The atonal triad was invented by _____ | |
| 136188077 | tritones | The atonal triad is a combination of P4s and _____ | |
| 136188078 | Sprechgesang | - An expressionist vocal technique between singing and speaking - Importance on contour rather than pitch accuracy - Talk-singing | |
| 136188079 | Schoenberg | - Financially and musically supported by Strauss and Mahler most of his life - Mostly self taught - Taught at UCLA - 1908, depression due to wife leaving him and their two kids for a painter (she returned, the painter killed himself)... this changed his style drastically to atonal, but not yet 12-tone | |
| 136188080 | Strauss | Schoenberg was financially supported by Mahler and _____ for most of his life | |
| 136188081 | UCLA | Schoenberg taught at _____ | |
| 136188082 | 1908 atonal | Schoenberg was depressed in the year _____ because his wife left him. This caused him to start composing _____ music, but not yet 12-tone music. | |
| 136188083 | self taught | Schoenberg did not have very much formal education, so he was mostly _____ _____ | |
| 136196898 | Fagott | - Bassoon (German) | |
| 136196899 | Posaunen | Trombone (German) | |
| 136196900 | Becken | Cymbal (German) | |
| 136196901 | Grosse Trommel | Large drum (German) | |
| 136196902 | Pauke | Timpani (German) | |
| 136196903 | Harfe | - Harp (German) | |
| 136196904 | Bratsche | - Viola (German) | |
| 136196905 | Bassoon | Fagott (English) | |
| 136196906 | Trombone | Posaunen (English) | |
| 136196907 | Cymbal | Becken (English) | |
| 136196908 | Large drum | Grosse Trommel (English) | |
| 136196909 | Timpani | Pauke (English) | |
| 136196910 | Harp | Harfe (English) | |
| 136196911 | Viola | Bratsche (English) | |
| 136196912 | gestopft | - Term applied to hand-stopping on a horn, affecting pitch and tone quality | |
| 136196913 | Schalltrichter in die Hohe | - Used in the music of Mahler and other composers, where they want the horn players to lift the bells of their instruments into the air (not just "off the leg") | |
| 136196914 | Altenberg-Lieder | - Composed by Alban Berg - A set of five songs for medium voice and orchestra - The texts deal with the stormy but beautiful condition of the soul, and the palpable sensations of love and longing. - Uses 12 note chords | |
| 136196915 | Wassily Kandinsky | _____ _____ - Russian painter/Expressionist - Friend of Schoenberg - Painted Der Blaue Reiter | |
| 136196916 | Expressionism | - Full of contradictions - "Spur of the moment," but still used traditional formal types (fugue, passacaglia [variation form where theme is in bass], sonata etc...) - incorporated superstitions, numerology, palindromes - represented the inner occurrences of psychoanalysis | |
| 136196917 | psychoanalysis | Expressionism represented the inner occurrences of _____ | |
| 136196918 | Expressionism | _____ incorporated superstitions, numerology, and palindromes | |
| 136196919 | Der Blaue Reiter | Expressionist movement; based off of a painting shown in class by Wassily Kandinsky - Abstract style of painting - Painting, by Wassily Kandinsky - Name of the Expressionist movement - Name of the Expressionist journal | |
| 136196920 | Ferruccio Busoni | - Italian pianist and composer who lived in Germany - Wrote Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music, basically predicting that in the future we would separate the octave into more than 12 degrees | |
| 136196921 | octave | The Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music predicted that we would separate the _____ into more degrees than it currently has | |
| 136196922 | Busoni | Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music was written by _____ | |
| 136196923 | Italian Germany | Ferruccio Busoni's nationality was _____, and he lived in _____ | |
| 136196924 | Der Blaue Reiter | _____ _____ _____ was an Expressionist movement heralded by Wassily Kandinsky | |
| 136196925 | abstract | Der Blaue Reiter promoted an _____ style of painting | |
| 136196926 | Wozzeck | _____ - An opera in three acts composed by Alban Berg - Five scenes in each act, so its structure is 3x5 - Based on the incomplete drama Woyzeck by Büchner - Very twisted: cycle of teasing leads Wozzeck to kill his wife, his son is teased b/c his mom is dead; hence the cycle continues - Each act based off of a musical form (I. character pieces. II. sonata. III. inventions) | |
| 136196927 | Altenberg-Lieder | The _____ by Alban Berg, is a collection of songs that show his experimentation with 12 note chords | |
| 136196928 | Wozzeck Buchner | _____ was based on the incomplete drama Woyzeck by _____ | |
| 136196929 | Buchner | _____ wrote the unfinished drama that Wozzeck was based on | |
| 136196930 | Wozzeck | _____ The title character kills his wife, his son is teased since his mom is dead; then the cycle continues!!! o_O | |
| 136196931 | Wozzeck | Each one of the three acts in the work _____ is based off of a musical form. | |
| 136196932 | character piece | The musical form for Act I of Wozzeck is the _____ | |
| 136196933 | sonata | The musical form for Act II of Wozzeck is the _____ | |
| 136196934 | invention | The musical form for Act III of Wozzeck is the _____ | |
| 136196935 | Alexander Zemlinsky | _____ _____ - An Austrian composer/conductor - He gave Schoenberg lessons in counterpoint - Brother of Schoenberg's wife | |
| 136196936 | Zemlinsky | The only formal teacher that Schoenberg had was named _____ | |
| 136196937 | Alexander Zemlinsky | Schoenberg's brother-in-law was named _____ _____ | |
| 136196938 | Berg | - Not Jewish, but music was very decadent - Stayed in Vienna his whole life - Grew up wealthy - Flunked 6th and 7th grade - Studied with Schoenberg whilst being treated like a servant - Expressionist | |
| 136196939 | Vienna | Alban Berg remained in _____ for his whole life | |
| 136196940 | Berg | _____ grew up with lots of money | |
| 136196941 | Berg | _____ flunked the sixth and seventh grades | |
| 136196942 | Alban Berg | _____ _____ was an Expressionist composer that studied with Schoenberg | |
| 136196943 | Berg | _____'s music was quite decadent although he was not Jewish | |
| 136196944 | Berg | _____ followed the French more than the German tradition | |
| 136196945 | illegitimate child | Berg had an _____ _____ at age 17 | |
| 136196946 | Berg | _____ was a snotty kid that slept around | |
| 136196947 | Berg | _____ did not begin to compose until he was 15 |
Music History Final 2011
Texas Tech MUHL 2301 final information!
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| 168164186 | Who is the composer of "Beautiful Dreamer"? | Foster | |
| 168164187 | Who is the composer of "Caprices, no. 24, Op. 1 in A minor"? | Paganini | |
| 168164188 | Who is the composer of "Virga Jesse floruit"? | Bruckner | |
| 168164189 | Who is the composer of "Lyrical Pieces, Op. 47: Halling"? | Grieg | |
| 168164190 | Who is the composer of "Symphony No. 3, Op. 55, Mvt. 1 and 2" and what are the names of the movements we're studying? | Beethoven; Eroica and Marcia Funebre | |
| 168164191 | Who is the composer of "Piano Sonata in C, Op. 53"? | Beethoven | |
| 168164192 | Who is the composer of "Symphonie Fantastique, Mvt. 5"? | Berlioz | |
| 168164193 | Who is the composer of "Wanderers Nachtlied, D. 768"? | Schubert | |
| 168164194 | Who is the composer of "Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4"? | Chopin | |
| 168164195 | Who is the composer of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"? | Rossini | |
| 168164196 | Who is the composer of "Etudes d'execution transcendante, No. 1"? | Liszt | |
| 168164197 | Who is the composer of "The Banjo"? | Gottschalk | |
| 168164198 | Who is the composer of "Rigoletto, Act 3, No. 16"? | Verdi | |
| 168164199 | Who is the composer of "Tristan und Isolde"? | Wagner | |
| 168164200 | Who is the composer of "Symphony No. 9, Mvt. 2" and what was it called? | Dvorak; "New World Symphony" | |
| 168164201 | What type of composition is "Beautiful Dreamer"? | Parlor Song | |
| 168164202 | What piece did Foster write? | "Beautiful Dreamer" | |
| 168164203 | What instrument(s) was "Caprices, No. 24, Op. 1 in A minor" written for? | Violin | |
| 168164204 | What type of group would perform "Virga Jesse floruit"? | Four-Part Chorus | |
| 168164205 | What piece did Bruckner compose? | "Virga Jesse floruit" | |
| 168164206 | What instrument(s) perform "Lyrical Pieces"? | Fiddle and Piano | |
| 168164207 | What piece did Grieg write? | "Lyrical Pieces" | |
| 168164209 | What is another name for Beethoven's "Piano Sonata in C"? | "Walstein Sonata" | |
| 168164208 | What pieces did Beethoven compose? | "Symphony No. 3, Mvts. 1 and 2" and "Piano Sonata in C" | |
| 168164210 | Who composed the "Walstein Sonata" and for which instrument was it written? | Beethoven; Piano | |
| 168164211 | What piece did Berlioz compose? | "Symphonie Fantastique, Mvt. 5" | |
| 168164212 | Which piece did Schubert compose? | "Wanderers Nachtlied" | |
| 168164213 | What type of composition is "Wanderers Nachtlied"? | Lieder; Song | |
| 168164214 | What did Chopin compose? | "Mazurka in A minor" | |
| 168164215 | What type of composition is "Mazurka in A minor"? | Character Piece; Dance | |
| 168164216 | What piece did Rossini compose? | "Barber of Seville" | |
| 168164217 | What type of composition is "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"? | Opera | |
| 168164218 | Which parts are we studying from "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"? | Act 1, Scenes 2 (Figaro) and 5 (Rosina) | |
| 168164219 | What opera style characteristic do Act 1, Scenes 2 and 5 of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" fall under? | Cavatina | |
| 168164220 | What grouping of pieces does "Wanderers Nachtlied fall under? | "Three Lieder" by Schubert | |
| 168164221 | For which instrument was "Mazurka in A minor" composed? | Piano | |
| 168164222 | What type of composition did Liszt write? | Etudes | |
| 168164223 | For which instrument(s) did Liszt write? | Piano | |
| 168164224 | For which instrument was "Etudes d'execution transcendante, No. 1" written? | Piano | |
| 168164225 | Which composition did Gottschalk write? | "The Banjo" | |
| 168164226 | Which instrument did Gottschalk write for? | Piano | |
| 168164227 | For which instrument was "The Banjo" composed? | Piano | |
| 168164228 | What type of composition is "Rigoletto"? | Opera | |
| 168164229 | What composition did Verdi write? | "Rigoletto" | |
| 168164230 | Which work did Wagner write? | "Tristan und Isolde" | |
| 168164231 | What type of work is "Tristan und Isolde"? | Opera | |
| 168164232 | What piece did Dvorak write? | "Symphony No. 9" | |
| 168164233 | What was Dvorak's piece named? | "New World Symphony" | |
| 168164234 | What was an alternative name for "Symphony No. 9" by Dvorak? | "New World Symphony" | |
| 168164235 | Which country did Chopin represent? | Poland | |
| 168164236 | Poland was represented by which composer? | Chopin | |
| 168164237 | Which country did Glinka represent? | Russia | |
| 168164238 | Russia was represented by which composer? | Glinka | |
| 168164239 | Which country did Dvorak represent? | Bohemia/Czech | |
| 168164240 | Bohemia/Czech was represented by which composer? | Dvorak | |
| 168164241 | Which non-native country did Dvorak compose for? | America | |
| 168164242 | Which non-native composer represented America? | Dvorak | |
| 168164243 | Which country was represented by Verdi? | Italy | |
| 168164244 | Italy was represented by which composer? | Verdi | |
| 168215264 | Romantic Ideology focuses on | a persona; a person or role portrayed through a piece. | |
| 168215265 | Romanticism emphasizes | the worth of a person as a unique individual. | |
| 168215266 | The concept of organic unity means | humanity is the culmination of life and art and religion are its pinnacles. | |
| 168215267 | Dionysian | passion, vastness, ruggedness, yearning toward the unattainable. | |
| 168215268 | Who established a discipline of musicology? | Guido Adler | |
| 168215269 | Who came up with the idea of romantic rhetoric? | Carl Dahlhaus | |
| 168215270 | Was there an increased or decreased sense of national identity? | Increased | |
| 168215271 | Exoticism | Interest in "the other" | |
| 168215272 | Name a piano virtuoso of this time. | Liszt | |
| 168215273 | Name a violin virtuoso of this time. | Paganini | |
| 168215274 | Musical periods as a | long continuum. | |
| 168215275 | The Cecilian Movement was | a nineteenth century movement for reform in the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| 168215276 | The Cecilian Movement brought about | the development of church choirs and congressional singing. | |
| 168215277 | The Cecilian Movement promoted | a cappella polyphony and Gregorian Chant. | |
| 168215278 | Beethoven wrote a letter called the | Heiligenstadt Testament. | |
| 168215279 | The Heiligenstadt Testament was written by | Beethoven. | |
| 168215280 | The Heiligenstadt Testament detailed | Beethoven's sorrow about his deafness and death wishes. | |
| 168215281 | Beethoven fought a legal battle for | his nephew. | |
| 168215282 | The Beethoven Myth claims that | Beethoven began the Romantic composer model. | |
| 168215283 | The Romantic composer model included | an artist enduring affliction and living for music alone. | |
| 168215284 | Beethoven worked mainly in | Vienna. | |
| 168215285 | Berlioz was in love with | Harriet Smithson. | |
| 168215286 | Berlioz was interested in | Shakespeare. | |
| 168215287 | Berlioz wrote the | Treatise on Instrumentation. | |
| 168215288 | The Treatise on Instrumentation was written by | Berlioz. | |
| 168215289 | Berlioz was considered ______ and prefered ______ music. | too progressive; program | |
| 168215290 | "Symphonie Fantastique" is a | program symphony. | |
| 168215291 | Berlioz is the | "creator of the modern orchestra." | |
| 168215292 | The Treatise on Instrumentation indicated | instruments' ranges and abilities and how to/not to use them. | |
| 168215293 | Idee fixe means | fixed idea; a musical idea that recurrs throughout a piece. | |
| 168215294 | "Symphonie Fantastique" transforms from movements 1-5 but is connected throughout because it is | through-composed. | |
| 168215295 | Romantic song became popular because of | changes in class, focus on home, more time and money (Industrial Revolution), rise of the amateur musician, more individualistic ideas, and war. | |
| 168215296 | The biggest cause of romantic song popularity is | war. | |
| 168215297 | Who are poets of German literature? | Goethe, Schiller, Heine | |
| 168215298 | Schubert studied with | Salieri. | |
| 168215299 | Schubert wrote more than | 600 songs. | |
| 168215300 | Schubert's main category of music was | the song. | |
| 168215301 | Strophic | hymn-like; each verse of a poem set to the same music | |
| 168215302 | Modified Strophic | music is mainly the same but is varied to fit new verses' texts | |
| 168215303 | Through-composed | music written to fit a poem with no real pattern or repetition throughout | |
| 168215304 | Chopin lived mainly in | Paris. | |
| 168215305 | Schubert lived mainly in | Vienna. | |
| 168215306 | Chopin concentrated on music for | the salon. | |
| 168215307 | Chopin was usually employed by | aristocratic patrons. | |
| 168215308 | Chopin was a composer as well as a | teacher. | |
| 168215309 | Which composer was also a teacher? | Chopin | |
| 168215310 | Chopin mainly wrote music for | piano; his primary instrument. | |
| 168215311 | Chopin wrote dances called | Mazurkas and Polonaises. | |
| 168215312 | Chopin was interested in what musical characteristic? | Harmonic color | |
| 168215313 | Chopin's style usually included | long melodic lines, chromaticism, colorful harmonic palette, tempo rubato, and melancholic character. | |
| 168416176 | There were ______ kinds of of subject matter for librettos, including ______ themes. | new; narrative/novelistic | |
| 168416177 | Lyricism in romantic opera | increased during this time. | |
| 168416178 | Romantic operas made use of what technical style? | Bel Canto | |
| 168416179 | Opera seria plots were formerly based on | ancient mythology. | |
| 168416180 | Opera seria plots transformed into | historical and romantic historica novelistic dramas. | |
| 168416181 | Opera buffa style | remained traditional. | |
| 168416182 | Opera buffa included what type(s) of characters? | Everyday/commedia dell'arte | |
| 168416183 | Rossini spent most of his compositional life in | Italy. | |
| 168416184 | Rossini's compositions were mostly | operas. | |
| 168416185 | Scena ed Aria | Two-part form of Italian Romantic Opera | |
| 168416186 | The first section of Scena ed Aria is called the | cavatina. | |
| 168416187 | Cavatina | free passage; a mixture of recitative and arioso-style singing | |
| 168416188 | The cavatina has a ______ nature and is ______. | reflexive; slow/ lyric | |
| 168416189 | How many stanzas are usually included in the cavatina? | Two | |
| 168416190 | The second section of Scena ed Aria is called the | cabaletta. | |
| 168416191 | Cabaletta | fast and brilliant form | |
| 168416192 | The cabaletta expresses ______ and is the _____. | powerful emotions; climax of a scene | |
| 168416193 | Bel Canto Style Era was characterized by | impeccable legato, light tone, flexible technique, execution of fast passages, the expectation of improvisation. | |
| 168416194 | The Bel Canto tradition declined for many reasons including: | it was difficult to find able singers the style had been around for a long time it was not easy to perform in the home the orchestra overshadowed singing over time composers were moving back toward realism | |
| 168416195 | Composers of romantic opera preferred | realistic themes. | |
| 168416196 | Virtuosi became | more popular. | |
| 168416197 | Virtuosi and composers were seen as | demigods. | |
| 168416198 | There was ____ drive for public concerts during this era. | more | |
| 168416199 | Music was used as a | distraction from war. | |
| 168416200 | What key factor made amateur musicianship and public concerts more attainable? | Technological Advances | |
| 168416201 | Which technological advances impacted the music world most? | Mass paper-making and printing; instrumental structure improvements | |
| 168427704 | Etudes focused on which two aspects of music? | sound and technique | |
| 168427705 | Etudes were lacking in | harmonic progression. | |
| 168427706 | Etudes included | non-tonal sections and chromaticism in the bass. | |
| 168427707 | Verdi built on the styles of which two Italian composers? | Rossini and Bellini | |
| 168427708 | Verdi achieved greater flexibility of _______ and ______ than his predecessors? | harmony; phrase structure | |
| 168427709 | Verdi was very careful in his choice of | libretto. | |
| 168427710 | Verdi preferred what type of libretto? | Serious | |
| 168427711 | The La Scala Opera House was associated with which composer? | Verdi | |
| 168427712 | Which of the composers we're studying was known for his serious, melancholic librettos? | Verdi | |
| 168427713 | Verdi was associated with which architectural structure? | The La Scala Opera House | |
| 168427714 | The La Scala Opera House was built in which city? | Milan, Italy | |
| 168427715 | Verdi's topics included mostly | important events and forces from his own life. | |
| 168427716 | Verdi wrote about two specific main topics, which included | tragic relationships between father and son as well as political liberty and the overthrow of tyranny. | |
| 168427717 | The Risorgimento was when | everyone wanted a piece of Italy. | |
| 168427718 | The Risorgimento occurred because | Italy was perfectly located geographically for money-making purposes. | |
| 168427719 | Verdi was used as a | political tool. | |
| 168427720 | Verdi's name was a political | acronym. | |
| 168427721 | Verdi was a symbol of | Italian unity. | |
| 168427722 | Which of Verdi's operas stood for Italian independence? | "Nabucco" | |
| 168427723 | Who was the composer whose works were sometimes censored? | Verdi | |
| 168427724 | Which composer was a political activist? | Verdi |
Music History III Test 4
Chapters 79-83
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| 367825320 | Pierre Schaeffer | (1910-55) created concrete music | |
| 367825321 | combinatoriality | the capacity of two forms of a twelve-tone row to create multidimensional aggregates | |
| 367825322 | total serialism | a compositional method in which the choice of most of the principal elements of a composition (including pitches, rhythms, and dynamics) is governed precompositionally by an integrated system or arrangement. | |
| 367825323 | Darmstadt | German town near Frankfurt that was the birth place to many great composers | |
| 367825324 | surrealism | twentieth-century literary and artistic movement that confounds superficial reality or logic in order to evoke unconscious states of mind | |
| 367825325 | prepared piano | a piano whose sound is modified by the introduction of mutes and other objects between strings | |
| 367825326 | musique concrete | (concrete music) electronic music made from recordings of matural or man-made sounds | |
| 367825327 | jungle style | a big band style, associated especially with Duke Ellington in the 1920s and 1930s, evoking African or primitive music effects bebop | |
| 367825328 | cool jazz | a style of jazz of the 1950s characterized by subdued playing and moderate tempos | |
| 367825329 | free jazz | a type of jazz of the 1950s and 1960s characterized by the removal or reinterpretation of key, normal harmonic progressions, and familiar jazz forms | |
| 367825330 | jazz fusion | a style of popular music that mixes elements of jazz and rock | |
| 368854520 | Bebop | jazz style that uses improvisation and scat singing | |
| 367825331 | extended techniques | playing and singing in unusual ways in order to expand the sounds available in a musical work | |
| 367825332 | metric modulation | a term associated with the composer Elliott Carter designating a proportional change of tempo by which a small division of a beat is regrouped into a new beat so that a new tempo results | |
| 367825333 | phasing | a term associated with composer Steve Reich; a phrase piece is one that begins with two sources of sound giving forth an identical ostinato; one sound source gradually pulls ahead, creating a constantly-changing rhythmic interaction with the other source | |
| 367825334 | micropolyphony | a term associated with the composer Gyorgy Ligeti designating a texture in which a large number of lines merge into a sound mass | |
| 367825335 | gate | in electronic music, a device allowing for shifts in amplitude in an electronic signal; in the music of John Adams a point of modulation from one collection of tones to another | |
| 367825336 | tintinnabuli | (bell style) a term coined by the composer Arvo Part for a polyphony in which a melodic line is joined to a "bells" line limited to the three tones of the tonic triad | |
| 367825337 | Cage - Indeterminacy | 4'33" | |
| 367825338 | Varese - electronic | Poeme electronique | |
| 367825339 | Berio - chamber | In Circles | |
| 367825340 | Crumb - chamber | Ancient Voices of Children | |
| 367825341 | Riley - Chamber | In C | |
| 367825342 | Ligeti - Contemporary | Poem Symphonique for 100 Metronomes | |
| 367825343 | Hungarian Rock | Ligeti - Instrumental | |
| 367825344 | Adams - Opera | Nixon in China | |
| 367825345 | Glass - Opera | Einstein on the Beach | |
| 367825346 | Copland - Symphony | Fanfare for the Common Man | |
| 367825347 | Impressionism | natural, ambiguous tonality, subtle rhythm, melodic fragments; Debussy; En sourdine | |
| 367825348 | Serialism | organized, repetition, rhythmic ;Babbitt; Composition for Piano No. 1 | |
| 367825349 | Neo-Classicism | impulsive, balance, bold rhythm/texture; Stravinsky; Pulcinella, Octet | |
| 367825350 | Indeterminism | freedom, process, discovery; Cage; 4'33" | |
| 367825351 | Modernism | control, product, construction; Boulez; The Hammer Without a Master | |
| 367825352 | Minimalism | constructed, repetitive, rhythmic, innovative; Reich; Clapping Hands |
Music History Final
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| 66192596 | Arnold Schoenberg | Moved the German classical tradition towards atonality. | |
| 66192597 | Arnold Schoenberg | Later developed the 12-tone method for the systematic ordering of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale in 1908. | |
| 66192598 | Arnold Schoenberg | Born in Vienna and was the son of a Jewish shopkeeper. | |
| 66192599 | Arnold Schoenberg | Two famous students were Berg and Webern. | |
| 66192600 | Arnold Schoenberg | Converted to Lutheranism, but converted back to Judaism and moved to France in 1933. Later taught in UCLA | |
| 66192601 | Arnold Schoenberg | Verklarte Nacht, Gurrelieder, Pelleas and Melisande, String Quartet No. 1 in D | |
| 66192605 | Arnold Schoenberg | Non-repetition between and within pieces was _____________'s guiding principal. | |
| 66192606 | Arnold Schoenberg | "Emancipation of the dissonance" | |
| 66192607 | Arnold Schoenberg | Developing variation, integration of harmony and melody, chromatic saturation. | |
| 66192608 | Saget mir, auf welchem | Based on a poem, was one of his first completely atonal works. | |
| 66223325 | Atonal Pieces Completed in 1909 | Book of the Hanging Gardens, Three piano pieces, Five orchestral pieces, Ewartung | |
| 66223326 | Arnold Schoenberg | Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot) | |
| 66223327 | Twelve-tone method | Pitches are related to each other, not to a tonic. | |
| 66223328 | Piano Suite, Op. 25 | First 12 tone piece by Schoenberg | |
| 66229293 | Second Viennese School | Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg | |
| 66229294 | Alban Berg | Studied with Schoenberg | |
| 66229295 | Wozzeck | Opera by Berg | |
| 66229296 | After Wozzeck | Berg adopted the twelve tone system | |
| 66229297 | Alban Berg | Lyric Suite for string quartet, Violin Concerto, Lulu. | |
| 66229298 | Anton Webern | Studied with Schoenberg with Berg | |
| 66229299 | Anton Webern | Concept of music history influenced his development | |
| 66229300 | Anton Webern | His works were influential following WWII | |
| 66229301 | Anton Webern | Symphony, Op. 21 | |
| 66229302 | Anton Webern | Pointillistic Style | |
| 66229303 | Igor Stravinsky | Arguably became the most important composer of his time. | |
| 66229304 | Igor Stravinsky | A modern composer who composed the ballet The Rite of spring. This ballet almost caused a riot when it first was performed in Paris in 1913, because its combination of pulsating, dissonant rhythms from the orchestra pit and an earthy representation of lovemaking by the dancers shocked the audience. | |
| 66229305 | Igor Stravinsky | Studied with Rimsky Korsakov | |
| 66229306 | Igor Stravinsky | Performed tirelessly as a pianist and conductor | |
| 66229307 | Igor Stravinsky | The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, L'histoire du soldat, Pulcinella, Symphonies of Wind instruments, Symphony of Psalms. | |
| 66229308 | Igor Stravinsky | Neo Classicism | |
| 66266162 | Neotonality | Tone centers are established through repetition and assertion, not through traditional harmony. | |
| 66266163 | Serialism | 20th century music that uses of a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition | |
| 66266164 | Bela Bartok | His composer was a Hungarian who was one of the leading composers of the early 20th Century. His compositions focused on the folk music of his country and the eastern European region. | |
| 66266165 | Bela Bartok | Played piano | |
| 66266166 | Bela Bartok | Died of Leukemia in 1945 | |
| 66266167 | Bela Bartok | He created original works by blending rhythmic, melodic, or formal charateristics of peasant music with classical and modern traditions. | |
| 66266168 | Bela Bartok | Bluebeards Castle, Allegro Barbaro, Two Violin sonatas, the Third and Fourth String quartets, The Miraculous Mandarin, The Fifth and Sixth string quartets, Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta, Concerto for Orchestra, and Mikrokosmos (a book with 153 piano works) | |
| 66266169 | Bela Bartok | Maintained a single pitch center using diatonic and other scales. | |
| 66266170 | Bela Bartok | retained eleborate contrapuntal procedures from the classical tradition, such as the fugue. | |
| 66266171 | Charles Ives | Born in a small Conneticut city, where his father was a band master and music teacher. | |
| 66266172 | Charles Ives | Became the youngest professional church organist in the state at age fourteen | |
| 66266173 | Charles Ives | Was recognized as the first American composer to create a distinctly Anerican body of art music. | |
| 66266174 | Charles Ives | _________ was fluent in four distinct spheres of composition. American Vernacular, Protestant church, European classical, and Experimental music. | |
| 66266175 | Charles Ives | Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back, The Unanswered Question, Third Symphony, four violin sonatas, and First Piano sonata, three places in New England, A symphony: New England Holidays, Concord Mass, The Fourth Symphony, General William Booth Enters into Heaven. | |
| 66266176 | Charles Ives | Could justifiably be called the founder of the experimental-music tradition in the United States. | |
| 66266177 | Modernism | the bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century; called for changes in subject matter, in fictional styles, in poetic forms, and in attitudes. | |
| 66328061 | Modern Times | 1898-1918, development of motion pictures with live musical accompaniment. | |
| 66328062 | Operetta's | The Merry Widow, Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta. | |
| 66328063 | The Merry Widow | Franz Lehar | |
| 66328064 | Babes in Toyland | Victor Herbert | |
| 66328065 | Naughty Marietta | Victor Herbert | |
| 66328066 | Silent Films | Remained silent till 1920's | |
| 66328067 | Band Music | Extended to Colleges and schools, emerged Helen May Butler's Ladies. | |
| 66328068 | Band Music | New serious works were being written by English composers. | |
| 66328069 | Ragtime | features syncopated rhythms against a regular bass. Derived from the clapping Juba of American blacks | |
| 66328070 | Will Marion Cook | an African American composer, introduced the new rhythmic style to broadway. | |
| 66328071 | Scott Joplin | Leading Ragtime composer | |
| 66328072 | Scott Joplin | Wrote an Opera entitled Treemonisha | |
| 66328073 | Scott Joplin | Best known for his piano rags. | |
| 66328074 | Scott Joplin | Maple Leaf Rag | |
| 66328075 | Jazz | Appears to have begun as a mixture of ragtime, dance music, and blues. | |
| 66328076 | Gustav Mahler | Leading Austro-German composer of symphonies after Brahms and Bruckner. | |
| 66328077 | Gustav Mahler Works | Nine Symphonies and a tenth that was unfinished, and five orchestral song cycles. | |
| 66328078 | Gustav Mahler | conducted the Vienna Opera, Metropolitan Opera in NY, and the NY Philharmonic. | |
| 66328079 | Gustav Mahler | Songs play a large role in his symphonies. | |
| 66328080 | Gustav Mahler Song Cycles | Kindertotenlieder, Das Lied von der Erde | |
| 66328081 | Strauss Opera | Salome | |
| 66328082 | Strauss Opera | Elektra | |
| 66328083 | Strauss Opera | Der Rosenkavalier | |
| 66332222 | Claude Debussy | Worked as a music critic, Studied at the Paris Conservatoire at 10 yrs, Won the Prix de Rome. | |
| 66332223 | Claude Debussy | Impressionistic and symbolistic | |
| 66332224 | Claude Debussy | Creates musical images through motives, exotic sclaesm and timbre. | |
| 66332225 | Claude Debussy's Works | L'isle joyeuse, The twenty four preludes, The afternoon of a Faun, Nocturnes (Nuages, Fetes, Sirens), La Mer. | |
| 66341315 | Claude Debussy | provided a model for later composers in his use of harmony and orchestration. | |
| 66341316 | Maurice Ravel styles | Consummate craftsmanship, Traditional forms, Diatonic melodies, Complex harmonies | |
| 66341317 | Maurice Ravel | Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Rapsodie espagnole, Daphnis et Chloe (ballet) Pavane pour une infante defunte, Le tombeau de Couperin, String Quartet in F, Piano Trio, La Valse, Tzigane for violin and piano, The Violin Sonata, Piano Concerto for the Left hand. | |
| 66341318 | Manuel de Falla's Works | El amore brujo, El retable de maese Pedro, Concerto for Harpsichord with five solo instruments. | |
| 66341319 | Gustav Holst | Somerset Rhapsody, choral Hymns form the Rig Veda, The Planets. | |
| 66341320 | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Studied with Ravel | |
| 66341321 | Leos Janacek | leading Czech nationalist composer of the twentieth century. | |
| 66341322 | Jean Sibelius | gained an international reputation, largely based on his violin concerto and seven symphonies. | |
| 66341323 | Sergei Rachmaninov | Made his living mainly as a pianist. | |
| 66341324 | Sergei Rachmaninov work's | Twenty-four preludes, two sets of etudes-tableaux, four piano concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Three symphonies, The Isle of the Dead, Prelude in G minor. | |
| 66341325 | Alexander Scriabin | Vers la flame. | |
| 66341326 | Avant-Garde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods. | |
| 66341327 | Futurism | The movement anticipated other later developments, including electronic music. | |
| 66347303 | Irving Berlin | prolific and best loved popular songwriters for movies musicals and revues | |
| 66347304 | Revues | Vaudeville shows with a loose collection of variety acts, remained popular. | |
| 66347305 | Cole Porter | Wrote specifically for theatre and Hollywood musicals. Lets do it, It's De-lovely, You're the Top. | |
| 66347306 | Blues | along with jazz was one of two related traditions of African American origin. | |
| 66573907 | Classic blues | Were sung by primarily by African American women | |
| 66573908 | Back Water blues | Bessie Smith | |
| 66573909 | Jazz | Established in the 1910's | |
| 66573910 | Jazz Features | Syncopation, Novel vocal and instrumental sounds, unbridled spirit that seemingly mocks social and musical properties, improv. | |
| 66573911 | New Orleans Jazz | Was the dominant jazz type just after WWI | |
| 66573912 | New Orleans Jazz | Improvises on a 12 bar blues, a 16 measure strain from rag time, or a 32 bar popular song form. | |
| 66573913 | Leading Jazz Musicians | Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton. | |
| 66573914 | King Oliver | West End Blues | |
| 66573915 | George Gershwin | Porgy and Bess, I got Rhythm , Of thee I sing. | |
| 66573916 | Of thee I sing won | Pulitzer Prize for Drama | |
| 66573917 | Duke Ellington | Most important composer of Jazz to date | |
| 66573918 | Duke Ellington | Studied piano, including ragtime, from age 7 | |
| 66573919 | Cotton Club | In Harlem, provided alcohol and entertainment by black performers for whites. | |
| 66573920 | Duke Ellington | Many of his works were sold as popular songs, such as Sophisticated Lady and Don't get Around Much More. | |
| 66573921 | Duke Ellington | Take the A Train, Cotton Tail. | |
| 66573922 | Max Steiner | Became one of the foremost composers in Hollywood. | |
| 66740073 | Modern Music | Written for Amateur Performers | |
| 66740074 | Les Six | Arnold Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, George Auric, Louis Durey. | |
| 66740075 | Arnold Honegger | Pacific 231, King David. | |
| 66740076 | Darius Milhaud | Le boeuf sur la toit, Christope Colomb, Sacred Service, La Creation du monde, Saudades do Brasil. | |
| 66740077 | Francis Poulenc | used neoclassicalism, strong influenced melodies, and mild dissonace. | |
| 66740078 | New Objectivity | The trend against the emotional intensity and complexity of the late romantics and the expressionism of Schoenberg and Berg. | |
| 66740079 | Ernst Krenek | Jonny spielt auf (opera) | |
| 66740080 | Kurt Weill | Opera composer who was an advocate of New Objectivity | |
| 66740081 | Kurt Weill Works | Die Dregroschenoper, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | |
| 66740082 | Reich Music Chamber | Richard Stauss was president. Organization to which all the musicians had to belong under rule of the Nazi's. | |
| 66740083 | Carl Orff | Not sympathetic toward the Nazi regime. Works include Carmina Burana. | |
| 66740084 | Paul Hindemith | Adopted the aesthetics of New Objectivity | |
| 66740085 | Paul Hindemith | Gebrauchmusik, Mathis der Maler, Ludus Tonalis, Symphonic Metamorphisis, Symphony in Bb for Band, Un cygne. | |
| 66740086 | Soviet Union | controlled all aspects of the arts and concert program was strictly regulated. | |
| 66740087 | Sergey Prokofiev | The Love for Three Oranges (opera), Lieutenant Kije, Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, Alexander Nevsky, Piano Sonatas | |
| 66740088 | Dmitri Shostakovich | First Symphony, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Fifth Symphony. | |
| 66740089 | Dmitri Shostakovich | was criticized in the newspaper Pravda for his dissonacnes and lack of melody. | |
| 66740090 | Claude Champagne | First Canadian composer to acheive international repuation. | |
| 66740091 | Heitor Villa Lobos | Was the most important Brazilian composer | |
| 66740092 | Heitor Villa Lobos | Choros, Bachianas brasileiras | |
| 66740093 | Carlos Chavez | Sinfonia India, Sinfonia romantica. | |
| 66740094 | Silvestre Revueltas | Sensemaya | |
| 66740095 | Edgard Varese | Ameriques, Integrales, Ionisation, deserts, Poeme electronique. | |
| 66740096 | Henry Cowell | Many of his early works were experimental works for piano. | |
| 66740097 | Henry Cowell | The Tides of Manaunaun, The Aeolian Harp, The Banshee | |
| 66740098 | Ruth Crawford Seeger | Was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship in music. | |
| 66740099 | Aaron Copland | Jewish, Homosexual, and leftist politics, he was somewhat of an outsider. | |
| 66740100 | Aaron Copland | Music for the Theatre, Piano Concerto, El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, The Second Hurricane, Our Town, Appalachian Spring, Variations on the Shaker Hymn Simple Gifts, The Third Symphony, Piano Quartet, Piano Fantasy, Inscape. | |
| 66740101 | William Grant Stille | First African American to conduct a major orchestra in the US. | |
| 66740102 | William Grant Stille | Afro-American Symphony | |
| 66740103 | Virgil Thomson | Composer and critic for the New York Herald Tribune. | |
| 66740104 | Virgil Thomson Works | Variations on Sunday School Tunes, The Mother of Us All | |
| 66740105 | Musical Pluralism | Unprecedented experimentation and diversification in music. | |
| 66740106 | Rock and Roll | combination of unrelenting beats of rhythm and blues with the guitar background of country music. | |
| 66740107 | Rodgers and Hammerstien | Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music. | |
| 66740108 | Free Jazz | Built on melodic and harmonic gestures, new sounds, atonality, and improvisations on free forms. | |
| 66740109 | Avant-Garde Jazz | The style is based on very fast playing, motivic development, new sonorities, and greater dissonance and density of sound. | |
| 66740110 | Olivier Messiaen | Most importan French composer born in 20th Century | |
| 66740111 | Olivier Messiaen | Notated birdsongs and used them in his compositions. | |
| 66740112 | Olivier Messiaen | quatuor pour la fin du Temps, Liturgie de cristal. | |
| 66740113 | Benjamin Britten | Tempered modernism with simplicity and created a widely appealing idiom, homosexual. | |
| 66740114 | Benjamin Britten | War Requiem, Peter Grimes. | |
| 66740115 | Samuel Barber | Adagio for Strings, The Monk and His Cat from Hermit Songs. | |
| 66740116 | Alberto Ginastera | Most popular Latin American composer after Villa-Lobos. | |
| 66740117 | Milton Babbit | Leading serial composer and theorist in US | |
| 66740118 | Milton Babbit | Three Compositions for Piano, Third String Quartet. | |
| 66740119 | Pierre Boulez | Wrote the first European work of total serialism. Structures for two Pianos | |
| 66740120 | John Cage | His goal was to bring to music sounds that had been traditionally excluded. | |
| 66740121 | John Cage | Invented the prepared piano. | |
| 66740122 | Harry Partch | Invented a new scale with fourty three notes to the octave | |
| 66740123 | George Crumb | Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels | |
| 66740124 | Krzysztof Penderecki | Threnody: To the victims of Hiroshima, St. Luke Passion, The Devils of London. | |
| 66740125 | Gyorgy Ligeti | Atmospheres | |
| 66740126 | Witold Lutoslawski | Uses indeterminacy selectively while maintaining ties to modernism | |
| 66740127 | Karel Husa | Music for Prague. | |
| 66740128 | Stephen Sondheim | Company, Sweeny Todd, Sunday in the Park, Assassins | |
| 66740129 | Andrew Lloyd Weber | Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera | |
| 66740130 | Claude-Michel Schonberg | Les Miserables, Miss Saigon. | |
| 66740131 | Jonathan Larson | Rent | |
| 66740132 | Charles Dodge | Speech Songs | |
| 66740133 | Paul Lansky | Smalltalk, Night Traffic | |
| 66740134 | Jean Claude Risset | Inharmonique | |
| 66740135 | John Williams | Star Wars | |
| 66740136 | Minimalism | Materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures are simplified. Often consists of repetition of simple elements. | |
| 66740137 | Terry Riley | Experimented with tape loops that played the same material repeatedly. | |
| 66740138 | Steve Reich | Piano Phase | |
| 66740139 | Philip Glass | Einstien on the Beach, The Voyage. | |
| 66740140 | John Adams | Phyrigian Gates for Piano, Harmonielehre, Nixon in China | |
| 66740141 | Radical Simplification | Minimalism is an example of this | |
| 66740142 | Arvo Part | Estonian composer began with neoclassical and serial works and juxtaposed modernist and Baroque styles. | |
| 66740143 | Arvo Part | Seven Magnificat Antiphons, O weicheit, O Konig aller Volker | |
| 66740144 | John Corigliano | American Composer draws upon styles from the baroque and Classic to Avant Garde | |
| 66740145 | Bright Sheng | Seven Tunes Heard in China |
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| 390633403 | Allegro con brio: Symphony no. 5 in C minor | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| 390633404 | Waltz no. 6 in D flat (The "Minute" Waltz) | Frederic Chopin | |
| 390633405 | Molto Vivace: Etudes d'execution transcendante | Franz Liszt | |
| 390633406 | Hungarian Dance no. 5 in G minor | Johannes Brahms | |
| 390633407 | Radetsky March | Johann Strauss, Sr. | |
| 390633408 | Nessun Dorma from Turandot | Giacomo Puccini | |
| 390633409 | Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore | Giuseppe Verdi | |
| 390633410 | Largo al Factotum from Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Gioachino Rossini | |
| 390633411 | Prelude from Carmen | Georges Bizet | |
| 390633412 | Gymnopedie no. 1 | Erik Satie | |
| 390633413 | Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre | Richard Wagner | |
| 390633414 | Finale: 1812 Overture | Peter Tchaikovsky | |
| 390633415 | Promenade: Pictures at an Exhibition | Modest Mussorgsky | |
| 390633416 | Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque | Claude Debussy | |
| 390633417 | Flight of the Bumble Bee | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | |
| 390633418 | Variation 18: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Sergei Rachmaninov | |
| 390633419 | Fifth movement of Symphony no. 3 | Gustav Mahler | |
| 390633420 | Vesti la giubba from I Pagliacci | Rugero Leoncavallo | |
| 390633421 | The Auguries of Spring/Dances of the Adolescent Girls: The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky | |
| 390633422 | Mondestrunken: Pierrot Lunaire | Arnold Schoenberg | |
| 390633423 | Suite no. 1: In the Hall of the Mountain King: Peer Gynt | Edvard Grieg | |
| 390633424 | O Fortuna from Carmina Burana | Carl Orff | |
| 390633425 | Allegro: Appalachian Spring | Aaron Copland | |
| 390633426 | "Troika" from Lieutenant Kije Suite | Sergei Prokofiev |
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