First sem. note cards Flashcards
Franz Liszt
1811-1886
- Friend of Wagner
- New German School
- Lisztomania (Roger Daltry)
- Hungarian Nationalist
- Hungarian Rhapsody No.15 Razoczky March
- 19 in total
gypsy scale efg#aBbC#D#E
Recital - memorized music
Arnold Schoenberg
1874-1951
- Removed Toality
- Expressionism
“emancipation of dissonance
Paino Pieces Op.11 1909
- Pierrot Lunaire 1912
- cycle
- 21 narrations for femal speakers
- melodrama (not leid)
Nacht no8
-sprechgesang
Robert Schumann
1810-1856
- schizophrenia
- Neue zeitschrift fur musik
- Floresteu Eusebius, Chiarina, Raro, Davids bundler
- 4 symphonies- piano cycles- 170 leider
- Symphony no 1 “spring”
- partially programmatic
- 1841 2nd movement
- Papillons 1831
- 12 numbers, short intro
- “piano cycle”
Gustav Mahler
1860
- no operas
- lieder w/ orchestral accomp.
liebst du im schonkeit - das knabrn wunderhorn
um Mitternacht- kindertotenlieder
- Ruckert poem
- Symphony no 5 - 4th movement 1902
Franz Schubert
1797-1828
born Vienna
- Erlkonig 1815 lied
- written by goethe
- over 600 lieder
- 9 operas
- Ganymed 1817 lied
Hector Berlioz
1803-1869
- prix de rome
- 4 symphonies
- symphonie fantastique 1830
- programmatic
- idee fixe 5 movements
- absence les nuits dete 1840
- medodie ( collection not cycle)
Johannes Brahms
1833-1897
- conductor/composer
- absolut music- hated program, conservative
- 4 symphones
- symphony no 3 Fmaj 1883
- 3 key exposition
Giuseppe Verdi
1813-1901
Risorgimento
-VERdI- Victorio Emanuel Re d’Italia
Otello 1887
-opera seria
based on a shakespearean play
Giaochino Rossini
1792-1868
cavatina- 1st big solo in opera
patter singing Bel Canto Singing
Il Barbiere di Siviglia 1816
-The barber of Sevielle
Richard Wagner
1813-1883
1849-50 - romantic opera
- gets rid of recitative
- exiled into switzerland
- after 1850 turns to his theories
- Gesamtkunstwerk- total work of art
- leitmotives
der ring des nibelugen - 4 opera cycle
-27 years to complete premiere 1876
das rheingold
die walkure
siegfried
gotterdammerung
Carl Maria vo Weber
1786-1828
opera 1 subject and characters that appealed to germans
2 music is more continuous than singspiel
3 its skill intriguing to todays worlds
Der Freishutz 1821
- wolf’s glen scene
- melodrama
Giacomo Puccini
1858 1924
- well know operas
last great italian
progesional orchestra
“madama Butterfly” 1904
-quotes us national anthem
aria dovunque al mondo
Clara Schumann
1819-1896
Virtuoso pianist married to robert
father was rob’s teacher
-good friends with j. Brahms
“liebst du um schonheit 1841
- poem by ruckert
- joint song cycle w/ her husband
- prelude and postlude
Fryderyk Chopin
1810-1849
polish born
Nocturnes and mazurkas (dance in three)
John Field- irish composer for nocturnes
Nocturne in Db op 27 #2 1835
Irregilar rhythmic groupings
The Five
Mussorgsky 1839-1881
Cui 1835-1918
Balakirev 1837-1910
Rimsky Korsakov 1844-1908
Borodin 1833-1887
Russian Natronalists
selftaught amatures
mariinsky theatre
Gesamtkunstwerk
total work of art
correct imbalance of music vs lyrics etc
no stop and go all continuos
more alliteration les rhyme scheme
Leitmotives simple singing no ornaments
love triumps over greed or live > all else
New German schoo
lizst
Berlioz
wagner-only german
Music of the future- zukunfstmusiker
more like a support system aided their students
-counter to this was absolutist
absolute music
brahms hanslick
music for the sake of music
chamber works symphonies calassic and baroque forms
Ballet
French thing made way to russia
-tchaikovsky
diaghilev
marre Taglioni
Marius petipa
stravinsky
-no text mimes and poses
corps de ballet- entire company
pas de deux duet 2 dancers
variations single dancer aria
divertissement random shit
Impressoinsim
the artist’s impression of something
kind of abstract, light colors “float”
non functional cords 9th 11th
planning, ambiguous tonal centers extreme registers and dynamics
ostinato trills tremelos glissandi
Debussy Strauss boulenger
Expressionism
Dark disturbing emotions
absract shapes fields of color distortion
temoval of tonality- persusive dissonace
atonal
no functional key, chromaticism
all notes are equal
Realism
Silver age- Russia
like a snapshot of a scene and the rest could easily be retold
Mussorgsky tolstoy morphed
Neo Colassism
Drawing from past sources and re-establishing them
-ravel and satie
Classical forms w/ modern harmonies
Romantic
Short- Post beethoven (1827) to 1899
long 1790s-1918
Rise of programmatic impressionist realist
rise fo recital and festivals
absolute music
nationalist music
evolution of opera, symphony
Eric satie
1866-1925
Eclectric little man
parade- found sounds
Sarabande no. 2 1887
Maurice Ravel
1875-1937
neoclassism
-Studied couperin and classical form
Le tombeau do couperin 1914-1917
6 movements- mostly old school form
Rigaudon- ternery from
Igor Stravinsky
1882-1971
fled russia lived in europe eventually USA
-ballets symphiec poemes- other stuff
The rite of string 1913
ballet
strang harmonies rhythmic groupings
riot at the premeire
programmatic about the concept of string
Richard strauss
1864-1949
concertos and symphonic works
some operas- idolized wagner
salome
-1 act 5 scenes
lituraturopa
very controversial
Lili Boulanger
1893-1918
first woman to win Prix de rome
sister was famous composition theory prof
Clairieres dans la cicl
elle est gravement faie
melodie
Claude Dubussy
1862-1918
symponic poems character pieces
reflets dans leau- images 1905
nuages- nocturnes 1900
-planing floaty music
Edward Elgar
1857-1934
oratorios, pomp and circumstance, chjoral wrks
Enigma variations 1899
theme and 14 variations- programmatic
Nimrod- Variation 9
Peter Tchaikovsky
1840-1893
international fame
opera- queen of spades, eugene onegin
6 symphonies, ballet music immediate repetitions of melody
Act 1 Scene 8 Nutcracker 1892- extra harp
Modest Mussorgsky
1839-1881
A night on bald mountain- tone poem
Boris Gudunov - opera
Pictures at an Exhibition- Piano Cycle
3 song cycles
“within Four Walls” Sunless 1874
-russian Art song- realism
