MUS 114 FINAL EXAM Flashcards
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| 267383770 | What is Romanticism | Was a rebellion against the neoclassicism of the eighteenth century and the age of reason. | |
| 267383771 | What did romantic compsers continue to write? | Symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, concertos, operas, and choral work. | |
| 267383772 | Who long was typical 19th century symphony? | About 45 minutes | |
| 267383773 | What can progammatic instrumental piece represent? | emotions,characters, and events of a particular story, or evoke the sounds and motion of nature. | |
| 267383774 | As for the supernatural,what did romantic have to deal with it? | they were drawn to the realm of fantasy, the unconscious, the irrational, and the world of dreams | |
| 267383775 | What do romantics tend to have a greater range of? | Tone color, dynamics, and pitch. | |
| 267383776 | How many musicians were in an average orchestra during the end of the romantic era? | Close to 100 | |
| 267383777 | Who invented the piano? | Bartolomme Cristofer | |
| 267383778 | What changes were made to the piano in the 19th century? | - cast iron frame was put in to hold strings under greater tension -hammers were covered with felt -the range was extended -se of the damper(loud) pedal allowed a blend of tones | |
| 267383779 | What is Nocturne? | A musical composition inspired by the night, or evocative of the night | |
| 267383780 | What is Etude? | Most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular tech skill. | |
| 267383781 | What were Frederic Copin's musical style characteristics? | -Short works/variety of moods/salon setting -effective use of damper pedal -wide accompaniment patterns -rubato/ slight fluctuations in tempo -absolute music | |
| 267383782 | What is program symphony? | Multi-movement composition with extra-musical content that directs the attention of the listener to a literary or pictorial association | |
| 267383783 | Who is Hector Berlioz? | one of the first french romantic composers and daring creators of a new orchestral sound | |
| 267383784 | Who was "symphonie fantastique" written for? | Harriet Smithson- Berlioz had an obsession to where he wrote her impassioned letters | |
| 267383785 | What is Idee Fixe? | an idea that dominates one's mind especially for a prolonged period | |
| 267383786 | What is nationalism? | Patriotic feeling, principles, or effort | |
| 267383787 | What were the main trait to nationalism? | -used folk songs and dances -nationalist composers wrote operas and program music inspired by the history legends, and landscapes of their native lands | |
| 267383788 | Who wrote Bartered Bride? | Bedrich Smetana | |
| 267383789 | What is a symphonic poem? | A piece of orchestral music in a movement in which the content of a poem a story or novel | |
| 267383790 | What falls into contrasting musical sections that represent different scenes and episodes described in the program? | " The Moldau" | |
| 267383791 | What is an Art song? | A composition for a solo voice and piano | |
| 267383792 | What is lied? | commonly used for a song with german text? | |
| 267383793 | What is through-composed? | writing new music for each stanza | |
| 267383794 | What is polychord? | having many strings | |
| 267383795 | what is a Tone Cluster? | a group of adjacent notes played on a keyboard | |
| 267383796 | What is polytonality? | the use of more than one key at one time | |
| 267383797 | what is atonality? | the absence of a key or tonal center | |
| 267383798 | what is polymeter? | many rhythmic elements | |
| 267383799 | What is Octave displacement? | the displacement of tones into octave register that are not their referent position | |
| 267383800 | What is bitonality? | the musical use of two keys simultaneously | |
| 267383801 | What is Tempo modulation? | scoring techniques for supporting increases in action/drama | |
| 267383802 | What is prepared piano? | grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, etc. | |
| 267401849 | what is serialism? | use of technique of the 12 tone systems to organize rhythm,dynamics, and timbre | |
| 267401850 | what is primitivism? | the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds | |
| 267401851 | what is expressionism? | modernist movement initially in poetry and painting originating in germany | |
| 267401852 | what is minimalism | describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music. | |
| 267401853 | what is quotation music? | music that parodies another work or works. presenting them in a new style or genre | |
| 267401854 | What were the characteristics in the 20th century of timbre? | -new sounds/sources/unusual combinations -independent of a meldoy -related to form | |
| 267401855 | What were the characteristics in the 20th century of melody/harmony? | -unbalanced phrases/angular and fragmented -chromatic -octave displacment -polychord -tone cluster -new tonal system | |
| 267401856 | What were the characteristics in the 20th century of rhythm? | -poly rhythm -ostinatos | |
| 267401857 | What were the characteristics in the 20th century of dynamics? | -extreme use to emphasize elemts such as harmony,melody,rhythm,and timbre -atmosphere | |
| 267401858 | What was Stravinskys style? | -irregular meters -Forms/ abrubt shifts -tone color/ extreme contrat in orchestration -harmonic relationships | |
| 267401859 | What is Stophic? | Repeating the same music for each stanza of the poem | |
| 267401860 | Modified/varied strophic | since two stanza are set to the same music | |
| 267401861 | what is Bel Conto | the quest to get closer | |
| 267401862 | what is recitativo accompagnato? | accompanied by the full orchestra | |
| 267402293 | What is Verismo? | an artistic movement marked by the use of rural characters and common everyday themes often treated in a melodramatic manner |