35 - Between the Wars

Question 1

france 2

Answer 1

anti-debussyism and neoclassicism (counterpoint, restraint, 18th century forms and genres, neotonal harmony, against excesses of romantic period)

Question 2

most indl of les 6 (3+1)

Answer 2

honegger, milhaud, poulenc
broad outlines of neoclassicism

Question 3

arthur honeggar 4

Answer 3

dynamic action, bold colour, dissonance, ostinato rhythms

Question 4

darius milhaud 3

Answer 4

• prolific, diverse style and approach
• open to sounds from americas
• la creation du monde

Question 5

milhaud’s la creation du monde 2

Answer 5

• inspired by jazz
• neoclassic and modernist traits

Question 6

francis paulenc 4

Answer 6

• drew on parisan pop song
• graceful, witty, satirical
• wide range of styles
• neoclassic

Question 7

main point of neoclassicism

Answer 7

against excesses or romanticism

Question 8

new objectivity 2

Answer 8

opposed complexity, promoted familiar elements
aka new realism or new matter of factness

Question 9

kurt weill 2

Answer 9

• new objectivity
• die moritat von mackie messer

Question 10

weill’s die moritat von mackie messer (ballad of mack the knife) 3

Answer 10

• lilting melody undercuts brutal imagery
• about murderous gangster
• progresses through insturments of centuries (starts with organ, ends with jazz band)

Question 11

paul hindemith

Answer 11

• realist approach
• gebrauchsmusik”music for use” for amateurs that’s still in a high qualiyt

Question 12

music for use, accessible

Answer 12

gebrauchsmusik

Question 13

carl off

Answer 13

naively believed music was autonomous from politics, remained in germany

Question 14

soviet union’s writer’s congress 3

Answer 14

• simple and accessible music for common people (socialist realism)
• music for own sake
• modernists condemned as formalist

Question 15

sergey prokofiev 2

Answer 15

• left russia after revn, returned
• cantata alexander novsky

Question 16

prokofiev’s alexander novsky 3

Answer 16

• socialist relealism
• promotes common people, history, people rising together
• hymnlike, chordal, homophonic

Question 17

dmitri shostakovich 4

Answer 17

• entire career in soviet union
• lady macbeth of the mtsensk district angered stalin for modernism, banned
• conformed to socialist realism after criticism
• 5th symphony

Question 18

schostakovich’s 5 symphony allegretto 2

Answer 18

• evoked russain funeral music, triumphant finale

Question 19

canada 2

Answer 19

macmillan - collected and arranged folk tunes
champagne - first canadian composer with international rep

Question 20

states 3

Answer 20

• emerged as influential superpower
• new peak in interest in classical music bc of new techs and education
• fdrs new deal supported musicians, music ed, performance

Question 21

states new currents

Answer 21

ultramodernsit and americanist, both asserted independence from europe

Question 22

edgard varese 4

Answer 22

• spatial music and sound masses (move through musical space)
• sought to liberate composition from conventuonal elements
• hypermrism - chaotic noises
• poem electronique tape piece

Question 23

henry cowell

Answer 23

the banshee - played on strings of piano

Question 24

ruth crawford seeger 3

Answer 24

experimental,
turned to preserving folk songs
string 4tet

Question 25

george gershwin 2

Answer 25

used folk music, jazz, blues
fused seemingly disparate traditions

Question 26

aarin copland

Answer 26

• sought to appeal to larger audiance (radio, simple textues, reduced modernist technqiues)
• appalachian spring

Question 27

copland’s appalacihan spring 3

Answer 27

• exemplifies american idiom
• transparently widely spaces sonorities
• diatonic dissonances

Question 28

william grant still 3

Answer 28

• afro-american symphony
• broke racial barriars
• drew on diverse musical background

Question 29

still’s afro-american symphony 4

Answer 29

• sonata form
• first theme in 12-bar blue structure
• 2nds theme suggests a spiritual
• numerous other african american traditions

Question 30

ultramodernist

Answer 30

focused on developing new musical resources, and an Americanist trend that incorporated national styles and sounds into European genres

Question 31

tone clusters

Answer 31

chords of diatonic or chromatic seconds produced by pressing the keys with the fist or forearm