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Franz Liszt

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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

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Arnold Schoenberg

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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

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Robert Schumann

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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”
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Gustav Mahler

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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
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Franz Schubert

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1797-1828

born Vienna

  • Erlkonig 1815 lied
  • written by goethe
  • over 600 lieder
  • 9 operas
  • Ganymed 1817 lied
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Hector Berlioz

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1803-1869

  • prix de rome
  • 4 symphonies
  • symphonie fantastique 1830
  • programmatic
  • idee fixe 5 movements
  • absence les nuits dete 1840
  • medodie ( collection not cycle)
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Johannes Brahms

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1833-1897

  • conductor/composer
  • absolut music- hated program, conservative
  • 4 symphones
  • symphony no 3 Fmaj 1883
  • 3 key exposition
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Giuseppe Verdi

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1813-1901

Risorgimento

-VERdI- Victorio Emanuel Re d’Italia

Otello 1887

-opera seria

based on a shakespearean play

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Giaochino Rossini

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1792-1868

cavatina- 1st big solo in opera

patter singing Bel Canto Singing

Il Barbiere di Siviglia 1816

-The barber of Sevielle

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Richard Wagner

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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

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Carl Maria vo Weber

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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
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Giacomo Puccini

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1858 1924

  • well know operas

last great italian

progesional orchestra

“madama Butterfly” 1904

-quotes us national anthem

aria dovunque al mondo

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Clara Schumann

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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
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Fryderyk Chopin

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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

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The Five

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Mussorgsky 1839-1881

Cui 1835-1918

Balakirev 1837-1910

Rimsky Korsakov 1844-1908

Borodin 1833-1887

Russian Natronalists

selftaught amatures

mariinsky theatre

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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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

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New German schoo

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lizst

Berlioz

wagner-only german

Music of the future- zukunfstmusiker

more like a support system aided their students

-counter to this was absolutist

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absolute music

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brahms hanslick

music for the sake of music

chamber works symphonies calassic and baroque forms

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Ballet

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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

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Impressoinsim

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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

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Expressionism

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Dark disturbing emotions

absract shapes fields of color distortion

temoval of tonality- persusive dissonace

atonal

no functional key, chromaticism

all notes are equal

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Realism

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Silver age- Russia

like a snapshot of a scene and the rest could easily be retold

Mussorgsky tolstoy morphed

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Neo Colassism

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Drawing from past sources and re-establishing them

-ravel and satie

Classical forms w/ modern harmonies

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Romantic

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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

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Eric satie

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1866-1925

Eclectric little man

parade- found sounds

Sarabande no. 2 1887

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Maurice Ravel

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1875-1937

neoclassism

-Studied couperin and classical form

Le tombeau do couperin 1914-1917

6 movements- mostly old school form

Rigaudon- ternery from

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Igor Stravinsky

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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

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Richard strauss

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1864-1949

concertos and symphonic works

some operas- idolized wagner

salome

-1 act 5 scenes

lituraturopa

very controversial

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Lili Boulanger

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1893-1918

first woman to win Prix de rome

sister was famous composition theory prof

Clairieres dans la cicl

elle est gravement faie

melodie

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Claude Dubussy

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1862-1918

symponic poems character pieces

reflets dans leau- images 1905

nuages- nocturnes 1900

-planing floaty music

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Edward Elgar

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1857-1934

oratorios, pomp and circumstance, chjoral wrks

Enigma variations 1899

theme and 14 variations- programmatic

Nimrod- Variation 9

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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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

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Modest Mussorgsky

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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

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