Chapter 33 - Radical Modernists Flashcards
Many early 20th century modernists began by writing what kind of music
Late romantic style tonal music
Schoenburg avoided _________ in his works
Schoenburg avoided repetition
Schoenburg wanted what to take the place of repetition?
Variation
Schoenburg was heavily influenced by what characteristic of Brahms?
Developing variation
When did Schoenburg abandon tonality for atonality?
1908
Who came up with the 12-tone method?
Arnold Schoenburg
Birth and death dates: Alban Berg
1885-1935
Despite incorporating atonality and romantic structure, why was Berg’s music better received than his teacher?
Berg’s music infused atonality not only with the forms and procedures of Romanticism, but with the other expressive elements of romanticism as well, keeping tonality closer to the surface
Birth and death dates: Anton Webern
1883-1945
What is Klangfarbenmelodie?
A concept pioneered by Schoenburg where changes in pitch color are regarded as changes in pitch itself
Birth and death dates: Stravinsky
1882-1971
Name three trademarks of Stravinsky
- Disruption of meter and rhythm
- Colorful use of instruments
- Non lyrical
- Frequent accents
- Discontinuity
- Varied pitch collections
- Frequent ostinatos
- Blocks of sound and layering/ juxtaposition
When was Stravinksky’s Russian period?
Birth to 1918
What is primitivism?
A rejection of the stylishness and sophistication of trained art and modern life. It embraces, the crude, elemental, and the uncultured.
Which of Stravinsky’s works most clearly displays primitivism?
The Rite of Spring
