35 - Between the Wars Flashcards
france 2
anti-debussyism and neoclassicism (counterpoint, restraint, 18th century forms and genres, neotonal harmony, against excesses of romantic period)
most indl of les 6 (3+1)
honegger, milhaud, poulenc
broad outlines of neoclassicism
arthur honeggar 4
dynamic action, bold colour, dissonance, ostinato rhythms
darius milhaud 3
- prolific, diverse style and approach
- open to sounds from americas
- la creation du monde
milhaud’s la creation du monde 2
- inspired by jazz
- neoclassic and modernist traits
francis paulenc 4
- drew on parisan pop song
- graceful, witty, satirical
- wide range of styles
- neoclassic
main point of neoclassicism
against excesses or romanticism
new objectivity 2
opposed complexity, promoted familiar elements
aka new realism or new matter of factness
kurt weill 2
- new objectivity
- die moritat von mackie messer
weill’s die moritat von mackie messer (ballad of mack the knife) 3
- lilting melody undercuts brutal imagery
- about murderous gangster
- progresses through insturments of centuries (starts with organ, ends with jazz band)
paul hindemith
- realist approach
- gebrauchsmusik”music for use” for amateurs that’s still in a high qualiyt
music for use, accessible
gebrauchsmusik
carl off
naively believed music was autonomous from politics, remained in germany
soviet union’s writer’s congress 3
- simple and accessible music for common people (socialist realism)
- music for own sake
- modernists condemned as formalist
sergey prokofiev 2
- left russia after revn, returned
- cantata alexander novsky
prokofiev’s alexander novsky 3
- socialist relealism
- promotes common people, history, people rising together
- hymnlike, chordal, homophonic
dmitri shostakovich 4
- entire career in soviet union
- lady macbeth of the mtsensk district angered stalin for modernism, banned
- conformed to socialist realism after criticism
- 5th symphony
schostakovich’s 5 symphony allegretto 2
- evoked russain funeral music, triumphant finale
canada 2
macmillan - collected and arranged folk tunes
champagne - first canadian composer with international rep
states 3
- 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
states new currents
ultramodernsit and americanist, both asserted independence from europe
edgard varese 4
- spatial music and sound masses (move through musical space)
- sought to liberate composition from conventuonal elements
- hypermrism - chaotic noises
- poem electronique tape piece
henry cowell
the banshee - played on strings of piano
ruth crawford seeger 3
experimental,
turned to preserving folk songs
string 4tet
george gershwin 2
used folk music, jazz, blues
fused seemingly disparate traditions
aarin copland
- sought to appeal to larger audiance (radio, simple textues, reduced modernist technqiues)
- appalachian spring
copland’s appalacihan spring 3
- exemplifies american idiom
- transparently widely spaces sonorities
- diatonic dissonances
william grant still 3
- afro-american symphony
- broke racial barriars
- drew on diverse musical background
still’s afro-american symphony 4
- sonata form
- first theme in 12-bar blue structure
- 2nds theme suggests a spiritual
- numerous other african american traditions
ultramodernist
focused on developing new musical resources, and an Americanist trend that incorporated national styles and sounds into European genres
tone clusters
chords of diatonic or chromatic seconds produced by pressing the keys with the fist or forearm
