20th Century Flashcards
1
Q
Modern sound
A
-huge variety of instruments
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2
Q
Stravinsky
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- Russian composer
- wrote for unusual instruments: unable to write freely because of lack of people, since WWII, and oppressed by leaders
- first classical music celebrity
- used the 12 tone system
- most significant pieces: Right of Spring and Firebird
- neoclassical and expressionist composer
3
Q
Copland
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- American composer
- nationalist, wrote American folk tunes and ballets
- wrote Appalachian Spring
4
Q
Bela Bartok
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- Hungarian composer
- ethnomusicology: historian of non-western music
- wrote many folk tunes, very nationalist
- anti nazi, left to US
- wrote concerto for orchestra*
- 20th century harmonic ideas with folk tunes
- inspired by jazz
4
Q
Schoenberg
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- father of atonality*
- Austrian
- invented serialism
- wrote in 12 tone system
- created Second Viennese School
- sprechstimme: speech singing
5
Q
Penderecki
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- Polish
- expressionist
- tone cluster
- described war
6
Q
Webern
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- Austrian
- serialst
- shot by American soldier, mistaken for a nazi (early death)
7
Q
Gershwin
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- American nationalism was jazz
- composed rhapsody in blue and Cuban overture
8
Q
Berg
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-wrote completely in atonal style
