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Igor Stravinsky Flashcards

1
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What does art have?

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Intention

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What are poetics believed to be in the art community?

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The purest form as it relies on nothing but words

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Who is the informed/expert opinion in igor’s book?

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Himself

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What is the artist’s opinion? Explain how this correlates with the viewer’s

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The artist is always right - viewers can have an opinion but the artist’s idea is the correct idea

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What is dogmatic?

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Dogmatic meaning principles laid down by authority

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What will happen to people how takes this class?

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Their identity will be challenged

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“Every formal process proceeds from a principle and the study of principle requires precisely what we call dogma” this quote by Igor, what does it mean?

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Be dogmatic - be authoritative, be inarguable

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What is conceive and perceive?

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Conceive is to create

Perceive is to see

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What does Igor believe of himself?

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Believes himself an expert

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What is “dogmatic confidences”?

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Igor is giving an unarguable perspective

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If Igor wasn’t being a revolutionary, then what was he being?

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Trying to be original

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What does Igor say about simple tones?

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They are pleasant but they aren’t considered music

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What does it take to make music?

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Takes a human being

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What type of human being can make music?

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Someone who is sensitive to these sounds but is gifted with with the aptitude to put them in an order

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What is constantly passing through our minds?

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passive Music

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What is active music compared to passive music?

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Active is what humans creates

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What is “added benefits of artifice”?

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Must do something to generate something - artifice is a trick

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What happens for those who have studied music when they go to create it?

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It will be “correct” as there are certain methods that are taught and that would be used

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Can history help or ruin music?

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Too much history can make it difficult for music to move forward and evolve

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What are our ideas about anything?

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Preconceived

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If our ideas are preconceived notions, how can history affect that?

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History is judge to be bad in this case as we are influenced by it

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What is the act of creating the same as? Explain

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Act of creating is the act of speculating - not knowing where the idea is going

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What is music that takes place in time?

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Rhythm

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What does music require?

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Your memory

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What is a pulse or meter?

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Time in real life

27
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What is temp or speed?

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References time in music

28
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Is rhythm impacted by tempo?

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No

29
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How does your life influence the music?

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What we are going though impacts our perspective of the music

30
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What is expressive time?

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Think of ocean in and out - takes it time

31
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What is similarity?

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Similarity is hidden = works through problem = more valuable

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What is contrast?

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Contrast is everywhere = immediate problem = do opposite to solve

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What is consonant and what is dissonant?

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Consonant is the same

Dissonant is change

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What did masters of music leave out to are it easier?

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The harmony

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What are people being taught today to leave out?

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The harmony but shouldn’t

36
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Why did music have to be simpler?

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To dumb it down for the people

37
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What part of music is always remembered?

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The melody

38
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What is the most difficult part to create in music?

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The melody

39
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What is Beethoven compared to Bellini?

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Beethoven - simple and remembered

Bellini - complex and not heard anymore

40
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What did Wagner do?

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Back to the past to get back on track for music

41
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What are the profound upheavals Stravinsky refers to?

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We are losing our understanding of what is important in life which is art

42
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What are the modern man’s values?

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It is no longer art = it has become more about money than enjoyment

43
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What is the “fundamental laws of human equilibrium”?

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A balance between all things in our lives - a balance between feeding your mind, body and soul and still seeking substance (job or relationship)

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What does Stravinsky say is happening to our fundamental laws of human equilibrium?

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They are being violated - art is no longer in balance with the rest of our lives and we have allowed this to happen

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What does “spiritus ubi vult spirat” mean?

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The Spirit blows where It wills

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How does “Spiritus ubi vult spirat” apply to Stravinsky’s theory about music?

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The spirit is the inspiration that motivates us to create

47
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What does Stravinsky mean when he’s says that “people question the direction of the wind of the spirit is taking, not the rightness of the artisan’s work”?

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Questioning why someone made the art is challenging the spirit to create - we are better off asking if the art was well made

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What does Stravinsky mean by the “periphery of a work”?

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Means the easiest part that we can understand - inexperienced music-lovers will cling to the basics of music instead of exploring deeply into it to discover the real meaning

49
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What is the essence of music?

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The idea to discover the fullness of the work of art and not just be satisfied with the surface

50
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Why is criticism useless?

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Because you can never really understand the exact motivations which drove a person to create the art

51
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What is music in its pure state?

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When it is at it’s purest - no one but the artist has heard it - where there is no context or purpose it just simple exists right now for the artist

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What does Stravinsky mean by music is free speculation?

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We are free to see/hear/guess/judge/understand just like the artist does

53
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What does Stravinsky think about inspiration?

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Is not necessary in creating works of art - nice to have but you can create art without it as you can’t rely on inspiration as you can’t make it come around

54
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What is inspirations value?

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It is priceless but still it comes second to hard work and dedication

55
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What does Stravinsky say about artists and artisans?

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Artist = create the idea and sometimes the art 
Artisan = skilled people who create art based from the artist's ideas
56
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Give an example if artists and artisans

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Artist = a composer of music 
Artisan = playing the music
57
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What do you think Stravinsky means by that we have duty to music?

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Have a duty to invent and create something new not just copy what has come before

58
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How do people today feel about music?

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People tend to have very few opinions about music- they either like it or hate it and often can’t explain why

59
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What does Stravinsky mean by invention presupposes imagination but should never be confused by it?

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Invention is to solve a problem or find a solution

This can come not by your imagination but previously learned

60
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What does Stravinsky mean by faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself?

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Creating isn’t one step - it is many given to us by observations and outside influences

61
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What does Stravinsky say about accidents?

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Allows for new ideas to come

62
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What does Stravinsky mean by “the creator must refine his taste or run the relish of losing his perspicacity”?

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Perspicacity = quality of having a ready insight into things
We must be absolute about our art to maintain the vision and direction that we want it to go

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