Exam 2 Flashcards
Paul Verlaine
A poet who illustrated a striving tone in French literature
Fete galante
A popular occasion among the aristocracy of the 18th c. Shown in Verlaine’s collection
Impressionism
A realistic style of French painting of the late 19th c. using everyday subjects and emphasizing the effects of sunlight upon colors.
Claude Monet
An impressionist painter for France in the lat 19th c.
Whole-Tone Scale
Use in impressionist music
Octatonic Scale
Used in impressionist music
Pentatonic Scale
Used in impressionist music
Silver Age
Common designation for an artistic period in Russia during the time of Tsar Nicholas II
Realism
Penetrating psychological and social novels of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.
Alexander Siloti
Conductor and piano virtuoso- founded concerts that served a mixed of Russian and European figures
Evenings of Contemporary Music
Young art loving amateurs- Stravinsky and Pokofiev being leaders
Diaghilev
Remarkable impresario, began in law then switched
Miriskusstav
World of art - Diaghilev wrote with his fellow writers expressed sympathy with modern European developments.
Triple Entente
Russian, French, and British in 1907
The Ballet Russes
Russian Ballet Short Music from different sources Scores with choreographies The history was with the ballet
Mikhail Fokine
Choreographer for Russian ballet
Valsav Nijinsky
Choreographer for the rite of spring
Polychord
The combination arising by a juxtaposition of familiar but unrelated harmonies
Bolshevik and Uladmir Lenin
Promised to end Russian War
Russian Revolution
Musical culture was profound.
Vasili Kandinsky
Russian born artist devoted his works to Schoenberg
Emancipation of dissonance
Dissonant chords could appear frequently
Atonal
Without a tonal center
Tone-Color Melody
A succession of different timbres could take on a structural role in a composition.
Piano Harmonies
Slightly pressing the chord and adding the lower tone
Albert Giraud
Wrote Pierrot Linaire poetry
Sprechgesang
Speech song
Mystic chord
Prometheus chord
Naturalism
A movement in literature of the late 19th c. that depicts society in a objective and truthful manner
Expressionism
Contain a symbolic treatment of characters irrational impulses which offer lead to grotesque of violent conclusions
Georg Büchner
Scientist and amateur writer
Johann Christian Woyzeck
Died in a historical trial and his story becomes a play
Gebrachamusik
Music for use
Beetle Brecht
Berlin poet and play-write
The beggars opera
The reveal of John Gay’s opera
Epic Theater
Highly mixed and loose form for a theatric work
Belle Époque
Beautiful era
Ricordi
Powerful Milan firm
Arturo Toscanini
Artistic director and principal conductor
Verismo
Realism
Pietro Mascagni
Wrote the first verismo opera
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Wrote Clowns
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Viennese writer
Oscar Wilde
Staged Salome
Heckelphone
Member of clarinet family
Dance of the Seven Veils
Dance in Salome
Hugo Riemann
The great German music theorist
Felix Draeseke
A composer and staunch advocate of Wagner
