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Paul Verlaine

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A poet who illustrated a striving tone in French literature

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Fete galante

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A popular occasion among the aristocracy of the 18th c. Shown in Verlaine’s collection

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Impressionism

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A realistic style of French painting of the late 19th c. using everyday subjects and emphasizing the effects of sunlight upon colors.

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Claude Monet

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An impressionist painter for France in the lat 19th c.

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Whole-Tone Scale

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Use in impressionist music

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Octatonic Scale

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Used in impressionist music

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Pentatonic Scale

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Used in impressionist music

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Silver Age

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Common designation for an artistic period in Russia during the time of Tsar Nicholas II

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Realism

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Penetrating psychological and social novels of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.

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Alexander Siloti

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Conductor and piano virtuoso- founded concerts that served a mixed of Russian and European figures

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Evenings of Contemporary Music

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Young art loving amateurs- Stravinsky and Pokofiev being leaders

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Diaghilev

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Remarkable impresario, began in law then switched

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Miriskusstav

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World of art - Diaghilev wrote with his fellow writers expressed sympathy with modern European developments.

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Triple Entente

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Russian, French, and British in 1907

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The Ballet Russes

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Russian Ballet 
Short
Music from different sources 
Scores with choreographies
The history was with the ballet
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Mikhail Fokine

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Choreographer for Russian ballet

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Valsav Nijinsky

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Choreographer for the rite of spring

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Polychord

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The combination arising by a juxtaposition of familiar but unrelated harmonies

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Bolshevik and Uladmir Lenin

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Promised to end Russian War

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Russian Revolution

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Musical culture was profound.

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Vasili Kandinsky

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Russian born artist devoted his works to Schoenberg

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Emancipation of dissonance

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Dissonant chords could appear frequently

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Atonal

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Without a tonal center

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Tone-Color Melody

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A succession of different timbres could take on a structural role in a composition.

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Piano Harmonies

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Slightly pressing the chord and adding the lower tone

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Albert Giraud

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Wrote Pierrot Linaire poetry

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Sprechgesang

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Speech song

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Mystic chord

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Prometheus chord

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Naturalism

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A movement in literature of the late 19th c. that depicts society in a objective and truthful manner

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Expressionism

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Contain a symbolic treatment of characters irrational impulses which offer lead to grotesque of violent conclusions

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Georg Büchner

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Scientist and amateur writer

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Johann Christian Woyzeck

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Died in a historical trial and his story becomes a play

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Gebrachamusik

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Music for use

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Beetle Brecht

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Berlin poet and play-write

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The beggars opera

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The reveal of John Gay’s opera

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Epic Theater

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Highly mixed and loose form for a theatric work

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Belle Époque

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Beautiful era

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Ricordi

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Powerful Milan firm

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Arturo Toscanini

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Artistic director and principal conductor

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Verismo

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Realism

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Pietro Mascagni

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Wrote the first verismo opera

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

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Wrote Clowns

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Viennese writer

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Oscar Wilde

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Staged Salome

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Heckelphone

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Member of clarinet family

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Dance of the Seven Veils

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Dance in Salome

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Hugo Riemann

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The great German music theorist

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Felix Draeseke

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A composer and staunch advocate of Wagner

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