Exam 3 Flashcards
Claude Debussy
Leading impressionist, early Wagnerian, Nuage, Prelude a l’après midi d’un faune, chord streaming and planing, chromatic
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist impacted Expressionism and Primitivism
Primitivism
Underlying influence in the human, primitive ways and ugliness
Richard Strauss
Salome based on Wilde, psychosis
Stravinsky
Primitivism Russian, Rite of Spring
Sergei Diaghilev
Ballet impresario sponsored Stravinsky
Impressionism
From Monet’s Impression: Sunrise, captures first glances rather than detail, blurring of light, related to literary Symbolism
Expressionism
Ugly, human depths stream of consciousness, clashing, Kandinsky, Schoenberg
Wassily Kandinsky
Painted Schoenberg
Synesthesia
Mixing senses
Second Viennese School
Schoenberg, Berg, atonality
Arnold Schoenberg
Twelve tone serialism, Pierrot Lunaire , Sprechstimme, pantonalism
Alban Berg
Wozzeck, 5 movement symphony, Schoenberg’s student
Anton Webern
Shoenbergs student, serialism in organization from klangfarbenmelodie, musically economical
Charles Ives
Insurance clerk, all sounds beautiful, Concord Sonata, American, musical kid
Modernism
post WW1, newness and futuristic ideals, serialism, electronic
Neoclassicism
return to Classical forms and textures, Satie, late Stravinsky
Les Six
neoclassical objectivity and tonality: Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Pouenc, Georges Auric
Paul Hindemith
unified movements (science, modernism, neoclassicism) within his music, spatial chord relationships, Mathis der Maler, German progressivism
Gebrachmusik
practical music by Hindemith, also Bartok, pragmatism over self-expression
Bela Bartok
first big ethnomusicologist, researched folk tunes and fused with West
socialist realism
Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Soviet Union and everybody can listen to good music! Art should appeal to and glorify the common people
Dimitri Shostakovich
Lady Macbeth, Symphony no.5,
Dimitri Shostakovich
Lady Macbeth, Symphony no.5, tension with Soviets
Nadia Boulanger
French composition teacher, taught Aaron Copland’s generation
Aaron Copland
American composer, Rodeo, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid
Martha Graham
choreographed Appalachian Spring
William Grant Still
first major African American composer, Afro-American Symphony