MAPEH EXAM Q1 Flashcards
was one of the most influential and leading composers of the 20th century.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
He was the principal exponent of the impressionist movement and the inspiration for other impressionist composers
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
He was known as the “Father of the Modern School of Composition”
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
compositions of claude debussy
String Quartet
La Mer
Claire de Lune
What group of people inspired many of Bartok’scompositions?
Hungarian people
Which Russian composer created the music for the ballet The Firebird?
Igor Stravinsky
Who is considered the foremost impressionist?
Claude Debussy
What kind of musical style is attributed to Schoenberg and Stravinsky?
Expressionism
Who was the target audience of Prokofieff’s Peterand theWolf
The target audience are the children
was born in Ciboure, France to a Basque mother and a Swiss father. At age 14, he entered the Paris Conservatory where he was musically nurtured by a prominent French composer, Gabriel Faure.
MAURICE RAVEL
His works are defined with intricate and sometimes modal melodies and extended chordal components.
MAURICE RAVEL
was originally used in visual and literary arts and was probably first applied to music in 1918
Expressionism
made use of the whole-tone scale. It also applied suggested, rather than depicted, reality. It created a mood rather than a definite picture. It had a translucent and hazy texture; lacking a dominant-tonic relationship.
Impressionism
was a partial return to a classical form of writing music with carefully modulated dissonances. It made use of a freer seven-note diatonic scale
Neo-classicism
revealed the composer’s mind, instead of presenting an impression of the environment. It used atonality and the twelve-tone scale, lacking stable and conventional harmonies. It served as a medium for expressing strong emotions, such as anxiety, rage, and alienation.
Expressionism
was associated with electronic music and dealt with the parameters or dimensions of sound in space. It made use of variations of self-contained note groups to change musical continuity, and improvisation, with an absence of traditional rules on harmony, melody, and rhythm
The avant garde style
is a looser form of 20th century music development focused on nationalist composers and musical innovators who sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials
Modern nationalism
Music that uses the tape recorder is called
musique concrete, or concrete music.
The ability of electronic machines such as synthesizers, amplifiers, tape recorders, and loudspeakers to produce different sound
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
was considered an “innovative French-born composer
EDGARD VARÈSE
Father of Electronic Music
EDGARD VARÈSE
Stratospheric Colossus of Sound
EDGARD VARÈSE
is a central figure in the realm of electronic music. Born in Cologne, Germany, he had the opportunity to work with Messiaen, Schoenberg, and Webern, the principal innovators at the time
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Also known as Aleatoric music refers to a style which the piece always sounds differently at every performance because of the random techniques of production
CHANCE MUSIC