Listening List Flashcards
1
Q
Images I “Reflets dans l’eau”
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Debussy
- Character piece
- Impressionism
- Reflections in the water”
2
Q
Le Tombeau de Couperin
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Ravel
- Suite
- each movement is dedicated to an individual that he knew
3
Q
Pierrot Lunaire, No. 8: Nacht
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Schoenberg
- Melodrama
- ominours
- depicts the wings black moths covering the sun
- atonal
4
Q
Wozzeck: Act 3, Scene 2
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Alban Berg
- Opera
- atonal
- “the murder scene”
5
Q
All-Night Vigil, (Glory to God In the Highest)
A
Rachmaninoff
- Sacred Choral Works
- Russian Orthodox
- peaceful, lovely, slightly distant quality
6
Q
La Sacre du Printemps: Dances of the Young Girls
A
Stravinsky
- ballet
- from The Rite of Spring
- edgy intense, girls paints faces
7
Q
Pulcinella: Overture
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Stravinsky
- ballet
- striking, repetitive rhythms/phrases
- neoclassical aesthetic
8
Q
Appalachian Spring
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Aaron Copland
- Ballet
- begins very slowly with harp
- tells story of young frontier couple on their wedding day
9
Q
Classical Symphony, Op. 25 1st movement
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Prokofiev
-almost all notes are either eighth or quarter notes, very simple and straightforward rhythms
- Sonata form
10
Q
String Quartet no. 4 1st movement
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Schoenberg
- serial 12 tone composition
- Sonata form
11
Q
String Quartet No. 8 3rd Movement
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Shostakovich
- Theme from his first cello concerto
- Repetitive
- spooky waltz-rondo
12
Q
Concerto for Orchestra 2nd Movement
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Bartók
- bears the subtitle “Game of the Couples”
- chain of short sections play by a pair of wind instruments
-jostle, elbowing against each other
13
Q
Finlandia
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Sibelius
- tone poem
- tense and ominous mood
- gradual addito of strings and woodwinds
14
Q
Maple Leaf Rag
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Joplin
- piano rag
- athletic bass lines, offbeat melodies
- recurring theme
- homophonic
15
Q
Rhapsody in Blue
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George Gershwin
- “love theme”
- integration of jazz rhythms with classical music
- clarinet glissando
