3rd test listening Flashcards
Le Création Du Monde
Milhaud 1923 Ballet -sax, ragtime, syncopations are American -Has neoclassical traits: fugue -Has modernist traits: Polyrhythms
The Ballade of Mack the Knife
Weill 1931 Opera -lilting melody with dark lyrics -exponent of New Objectivity in Germany -had 2nd career composing musicals in America
Symphony Mathis Der Maler
Hindemith
1933
symphony
-Wrote Gebrauchsmusik; music for use
-harmonic fluctuation: consonance, dissonance, back to consonance
-more accessible neoromantic style at the time
Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev 1938 Cantata (film score) -this was one of the Soviet Commissions -mostly diatonic melodies with accessible harmonies -orchestration conveys Russian Sound
Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich 1937 Symphony -Spent his whole career in the Soviet System -inspired by study of Mahler symphonies -wide range of moods
Hyperprism
Varése
1922
Work for winds, brass, and percussion
-aimed to free composition from conventional elements
-pitch, timbre, gesture, rhythm interact
-heard as a block of sound rather than a melody, harmony, or accompaniment
The Banshee
Cowell
1925
piano piece
-had a strong interest in non-western music
-piece is played on open piano strings (new technique
-wrote the piece an octave above where it is actually played
String Quartet
Seeger
1931
String quartet
-two part counterpoint, first violin against other instruments
-two voices heard in opposite direction in density and dynamic
-First woman to win Guggenheim fellowship in music
Bachianas Brasileiras
Villa Lobos 1938 Vocalise and song -modified ABA structure -Instrumental ritornello -Brazilian pop song improv
Appalachian Spring
Copland 1943 Ballet Suite -exemplifies American idiom -used a lot for music and television -it's a ballet but better known as an orchestral suite
Afro American Symphony
Still
1930
Symphony
-first to have a nationally televised opera
-in sonata form but also with 12 bar blues
-second theme suggests a spiritual
