Listening to Music Quiz 6 Flashcards

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1
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2 major events that influenced music in the first half of the 20th century

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WWI

WWII

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2
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question asked of art during this time

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can art depict the ugly side of life?

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3
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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

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Studied with member of mighty five
Composed for Ballet Russes for 10 years
-Firebird
-Rite of Spring-1913
-Petrushka
flees to France - abandons earlier style for neo-classical style
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4
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Stravinsky’s style

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“additive” - layers
double exposure
-superimpose two or more musical elements on top of each other

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5
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expressionism

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atonal

-composers try to invent new tonal systems

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6
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The Scream

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Edvard Munch

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7
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

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12-tone metod
serial composition
-placed all 12 tones in order and made that the center of tonality
sprechsimme - singing mixed with singing where the singer is given tones to move towards but not specific tones for each note

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8
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Alban Berg (1885-1935)

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wrote operas

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9
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Anton Wevern (1883-1945)

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klangfarbenmelodie

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10
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neoclassicism

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Stravinsky
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Dmitri Shostakovick (1906-1975)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1975)
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11
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Stravinsky

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"A Soldier's Tale"
uses forms (rondo) to organize his pieces
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12
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Prokofiev

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“Peter and the Wolf”

Classical Symphony

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13
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Shostakovich

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Soviets did not like it - “not subservient to the Communist State”

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14
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Hindemith

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music is a reaction to the widening gap between the composer and the audience
wanted to write useful music - gebrauchmusik
used his own very distinct tonal system

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15
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Ludus Finalis

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Hindemith’s version of The Well Tempered Clavier using his system

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16
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experimental and technological music

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Pierre

17
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two types of the experimental music

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composer control
-musique concrete
-electronic music
performer control
-aleatoric
18
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musique concrete

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record sounds and place them into and make music out of them

beginnings of electronic music

19
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electronic music

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Milton Babbitt
Edgar Varese
-1958 World’s Fair in Brussels

20
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graphic scores

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Penderecki

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

21
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minimalism

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write a repeating piece of music while making slight changes until it changes into something completely different
Philip Glass