Diverging Traditions Flashcards

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french music 2

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  • challenging to position, trying to establish french identity and repertoire
  • concerts of german classics and new french works
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french politics 3

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  • significant musical govt funding
  • political pressure
  • works associated with political movements
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french music schools 3

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  • conservertoire - prestigious, technical, focus on opera
  • niedermeyer - general instruction, focus on church music
  • schola cantorum - focus on historical studies
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2 strands of composition france

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  • cosmopolitan tradition (Franck and pupils)
  • more specifically French tradition (Faure)
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counterpoint

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note against note, not block chords

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cesar franck style 3

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  • counterpoint and classical forms
  • liszt’s thematic transformation
  • wagner’s harmony and cyclic unification
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franck organ chorale style 2

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  • improvisatory (new for organ)
  • orchestral colour
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franck’s symphony in dm

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cyclic form (themes recur in other movements, binds them together)

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franck chamber music

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  • he was founder of french chamber music
  • all chief works in cyclic form
  • violin sonata
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franck violin sonata 8

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  • renaissance and baroque procedures with romantic harmony and thematic structure
  • riternello combined with sonata, ternary, rondo forms
  • extended canon of main theme
  • modulated by 3 over A chord
  • main theme alternates with themes of previous mvmnts
  • tonal
  • accessible to average listener
  • violin and piano toss prominence back and forth
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gabriel faure general style 4

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  • drew primarily on earlier French composers
  • order and restraint, reserved and simple
  • subtle patterns of tones, rhythms, colours
  • stretched in new directions, provoked resistance from conservative establishment
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faure songs

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developed new language of fragmented melodic lines, harmony less directional, not sure where melodies will land as they move through chord modulation

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avant que te ne t’en allies 6

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  • song of faure’s la bonne chanson cycle
  • each poetic image set to melodic phrase in own tonal world
  • harmonic successions dilute need for resolution, prolong tension
  • chords fade into one another, linked through common tones
  • chromaticism as means to achieve equilibrium, restraint
  • symbolism where things are suggested instead of explicately said, listener interpreting for self
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tchaiovsky general 4

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  • cosmopolitan music renowned all over europe and north america
  • wide appeal, works at heart of repertoire
  • best known symphonies almost as performed as beet’s
  • funded by wealthy widow
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tchaiovsky’s symphony no 4 4

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  • classical form
  • draws from schubert: 3 key expositions, recapitulation behins away from tonic
  • private program
  • horn call in intro symbolizes inexorable fate
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tchaiovsky’s symphony no 6 (pathetique) 3

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  • private program left as a mystery
  • light scherzando character, evokes triumphant march
  • motivic fragments coalesce into main theme (theme emerges instead of being introduced right away)
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borodin 3

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  • devotee of chamber music
  • admired mendellson
  • melodies seldom quote folk tunes, but reflect their spirt
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musorgsky

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  • pictures at an exhibition (scenes instead of narratives)
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rimsky-korsakov 4

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  • known for programmatic orchestral works
  • genius for orchestration, musical characterization
  • capricccio espagnol, sceharzade exoticism from spain and arabia
  • russian esater overture - nationalist
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smetana and dvorak 3

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  • bohemia
  • better known outside of bohemia for instrumental music than operas
  • influenced by new german school
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smetana 2

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  • sought to create national music
  • ma vast (my country) - 6 symphonic poems
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dvorak 3

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  • follows in brahm’s footsteps
  • international style
  • czech elements to achieve national idiom
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dvorak’s savonic dances 2

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  • can hear dance beats
  • first in rhythm and style, widely knowsn czech dance
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dvorak’s symphony 9 in em 3

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  • “from the new world”
  • elements of native and african american idioms
  • pentatonic melodies, syncopation, drones, plagal cadences
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edvard grieg 6

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  • forged distinctly norwegian pieces
  • international style - but folk tunes and texts in some pieces
  • modal turns of melody and harmony
  • frequent drones in bass or middle register
  • combo of 3/4 and 6/8 meters
  • lyric pieces - short piano pieces similar to chopin
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britain 3

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  • english musical renaissance - movmnt to created british musical tradition
  • start to become prominent internationally
  • foreign-born musicians and styles dominated
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parry 3

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  • best known for choral music and 5 symphonies
  • drew on brahms, wagner, liszt - texchniques of development, thematic transformation, cyclic form
  • english influences - anglican church music, british folk songs, 16th and 17th english composers
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stanford 5

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  • influence on church music
  • known for choral music, symphonies, concerts
    -modelled after brahms and mendellson
  • diatonic style
  • flavor of native irish folk tunes
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edward elgar 7

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  • catholic (outsider in england)
  • no academic training led to unique personal style
  • first english composer with internation recognition in 200+ years
  • outsider to renaissance
  • harmonic approach
  • leitmotives in oratorios
  • symphonic output
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usa theories 2

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  • dvorak said usa music would come out of african americans and native americans
  • others said it would be more international
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folk

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passed through oral tradition

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classical 3

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centered on composer
attention to notated score
now means serious, for thinking

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pop 4

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written down
sold as commodity
focus on performer
composed by a specific person

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germans in usa 2

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german style and teaching dominated bc of german immigrants up to wwi
fostered divide between classic and pop

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theodore thomas

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  • one of most famous immigrant musicians
  • founded own professional orchestra
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native born usa composers 3

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  • studied in germany and usa
  • styles rooted in german tradition
  • internationalism vs nationalism
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amy beach 3

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  • most works engaged in traditions of german classics
  • style rooted in brahms
  • gaelic symphony
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beach’s gaelic symphony 5

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  • ethnic and nationalist
  • in response to dvorak’s new world sympyony
  • based on irish tunes (lilting 12/8)
  • fast development
  • modulates around 2 circles of major 3rds
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bands 4

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  • mix of serious and pop music
  • spread of bands related to divisions of us army having own bands
  • music to march and entertain
  • amateur and professional bands
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patrick s gilmore

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  • founded own band
  • success led to flood of professional touring bands
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john philip sousa 2

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  • “march king”
  • altered form for dramatic effect - build to climax instead of returning to beginning (no de capo), forward motion
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band repertory 2

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  • marches, dances
  • classical composers encouraged transcriptions, arrangements, medleys
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march form 4

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  • brief intro of 4 measures
  • 2 strains or periods, each repeated
  • trio in contrasting key (often 4th), 2 repeated strains
  • de capo repetition up to trio
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pop song4

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  • late 1800s introed gulf between classic and pop
  • sought to entertain, sell, accomodate amateurs
  • interplay of convention and novelty
  • verse-refrain form, with catchy hook
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african american music 7

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  • call and response
  • improvisation based on simple formula
  • syncopation
  • multiple layers of rhythm
  • bending or sliding pitches
  • spirituals had greatest impact - from bible with hidden meanings
  • many ethnic groups with different language and customs
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world music

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dvorak’s idea that music is becoming less national in style

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usa diversity

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stewpot, where each group maintained its own music while lending a flavour to the whole

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usa approaches to nationalism 4

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  • music should transcend nationalism
  • composers should just write the best music they can
  • or nationalism important for international recognition
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art songs

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  • required professional skill
  • artistic statement instead of entertainment
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chorus popular songs

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used to mean group of singers, came to mean refrain

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spirituals 2

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  • religious song of southern slaves, passed down through oral tradition
  • texts were usually based on images or stories from the Bible, but they often carried hidden meanings of enslaved people’s yearning for freedom