Exam 3: The American Scene, Lecture Flashcards
What did American music draw on for its musical culture
Europe
American composers that studied in Europe were___ who came on the scene too late
Romantistics
Edward McDowell was an_ composer with__recognition
American, some
Americans were___as musicians and___ and an American style of___ was needed
Inferior,composers, writing
American composers began to be noticed when the music scene switched from___ romanticism to ___ Impressionism
German, French
With the musical shift from German to French, comparisons ___ ___ so apt to be made
Were not
Who was most prominent of American impressionists: Charles ___
Griffes
What two things was Charles Griffes most noted for
White peacock, poem for flute
Charles Ives did not have fame until after his ___ but is considered ___ of American music
Death, father
Who was the first original voice of American composers
Charles Ives
Where was Charles Ives born
Connecticut
Who challenged Charles Ives musically
His father
Charles Ives studied at___ with horatio ___
Yale, Parker
Who was not a musician by vocation but owned an insurance company, wrote music on the weekends
Charles Ives
Conductors wouldn’t play this person’s music and scoffed at it
Charles Ives
What age did Charles Ives stop composing due to illness
Charles Ives
Where did Charles Ives’ music first gain attention, and what sonata gained him recognition
Europe, concord
Which number of Charles Ives symphonies was awarded the ___ prize in ___ (year) this was how many years after it was composed?
3, Pulitzer, 1947, 50
Ives’ music made use of hymns, folk, and popular songs indigenous to ___
America
Ives’ music subjects were ___ themed (country)
American
Ives’ was influenced by ___ experiences like ___ bands playing in a parade (diff. Tempo and keys)
Childhood, 2
Ives used polytonality,___, clusters, ___, and ___
Atonality, polyrhythms
Who was one of the first to write without bars or time signatures?
Charles Ives
Who and where was new music in America promoted? And in what year?
Conductors, universities, 1920s
As music scene shifted from Vienna to France, American composers went to ___ to study (country)
France
Who was the most prominent teacher in France? Nadia ___
Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger taught which 4 American composers? (CHPT)
Copland, Harris, Piston, Tomson
Which 4 composers were considered experimentalists? (CHPT)
Copland, Harris, Piston, Thomson
Edgar ___ was born in ___ and came to USA in ___
Varese, Paris, 1915
Who founded international composer’s guild to perform new works? This gave the American premier of ___ lunaire
Edgar Varese
Edgar varese stopped composing b/c public ___ like his works (year too)
Didn’t, 1930s
Edgard varese resumed composing in ___ the world caught up with him and what he was doing and he gained___
1952, recognition
Who was the first to experiment with electronic music
Edgard Varese
Edward varies was one of the extreme ___ of music at that time
Radicals
Edward Varese ‘s music rejected ___ interest in ___, sound for sound’s sale
Tonality, rhythm
Which composer “used good titles”
Edgard Varese
Two sections eager mostly interestedd
Winds, percussion
Who was the 1st of the so-called experimentalists
Henry cowell
Lowell had an interest in music of the far ___ and was influenced by it
East
Cowell’s music encompassed aleatory, ___, polytonality
Atonality
Cowell and Varese are similar in they both used tone ___ for sound rather than harmony
Clusters
1903s, music was inspired more by American. … music
Folk
In 1903s what city became the new music capital of the world
New york
Where was George Gershwin born
Brooklyn
Gershwin had an interest for … at an early age
Jazz
Gershwin got fame with
Swanee
Gershwin’s … was his lyricist
Brother
