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Modern Era Part One Flashcards

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Impressionism in Music

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Late 19thand early 20th-century French style associated most closely with the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel; often programmatic

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Expressionism in Music

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Early 20th-century German style; marked by extreme dissonance, angular melodies, irregular rhythmic groupings

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Atonality

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Music that has no tonal center; no sense of key

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Serialism

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A compositional approach developed in the 20thcentury by the Second Viennese School; any number of musical parameters (such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tone colour) are organized using a specific ordering (set) that undergoes manipulation

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Indeterminacy

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a 20th-century development whereby composers introduced elements of chance and randomness into their scores and/or performances; also called aleatoric music

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Graphic notation

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visually descriptive approach to music notation; symbols and shapes outside the realm of traditional notation used to convey microtonal pitches, texture, articulation rhythm, and tempo

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Neo-Classicism

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A post-World War I style marked by a return to absolute music and traditional formal structures

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Minimalism in Music

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A style of music that evolved in the latter half of the 20thcentury; generally characterized by the seemingly endless repetition of short melodic patterns, complex cross-rhythms, and a return to tonal/modal principles

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Symphony

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A multi-movement orchestral work; developed in the 18thcentury, especially by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

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Cyclical Structure

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Material heard in one movement recurs in later movements

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Symphony NO.4 Mahler Genre, composition date, source of text, language, structure, performing forces

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Genre- Symphony
Composition date- 1899-1901
Source of text- Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn)
Language of text- German
Structure- four movements
Performing forces- large orchestra with soprano soloist for the fourth movement

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Symphony No. 4 Mahler one point each section

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Introduction: Marked Sehr behaglich (very comfortably)
-begins with clarinet very softly
Verse1: mezzo-soprano, more expansive version of the theme
-melisma on heaven
Verse2: word painting for little lamb achieved by a two-note “bleating” figure played by oboes
Verse3: concludes with another version of the descending melodic line

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Gustav Mahler dates

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1669-1911

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Mahler compositions

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9 symphonies, unfinished 10th (resurrection, tragic, etc), lieder, das klagende, das lied von der Erde

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Impressionism in Music

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Late 19thand early 20th-century French style associated most closely with the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel; often programmatic

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Whole Tone Scale

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A non-traditional scale employed by composers of the late 19thand 20thcenturies; consists of six different pitches, all spaced a whole tone apart

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Pentatonic Scale

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A scale consisting of five different pitches; can be rendered easily by playing the five black keys on the piano

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Jeux d’eau Genre, Premiere date, Translation of title, Dedicated to, Premiered by

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Genre- solo piano work
Premiere date- 1902
Translation of title- Water Games
Dedicated to Gabriel Fauré
Premiered by- Ricardo Viñes

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Jeux d’eau key, key, form, tempo, meter

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Key- E major
Form- resembles sonata form
Tempo- Allegretto
Meter- C

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What is Symphony No.4 in G Major 4th movement about

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-About a child’s optimistic and naive view of heaven, describing the bountiful feast prepared by the saints

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Maurice Ravel dates

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1875-1937

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Ravel life

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-Born in France, in the village of Ciboure, moved to Paris three months later
-Began piano lessons at age seven
-entered Paris Conservatory
-First published work was a piano solo
-Grew in popularity as a composer
-Maintained a comfortable lifestyle
-Began WWI military service as a military transport driver
-Mother’s death slowed his creative output
-Taxi accident (brain damage detected years later)
-Final years had failing health and reclusive behaviour
-Died in Paris after brain surgery

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Musical style Ravel

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-expanded tonal language includes modes, pentatonic, whole-tone scales, parallel chord streams, unresolved seventh and ninth chords, and polychords
-humour and gentle, even naive, charm is evident in some works
-attraction to American jazz evident
-had a natural affinity for Spanish music because of his mother’s Basque heritage; Spanish influences revealed in works such as Rapsodie Espagnole, Boléro, etc
-Thin textures, contrapuntal writing, traditional forms (neo-classicism)

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Ravel compositions

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Rapsodie espagnole, piano concerto for the left hand, menuet antique, bolero

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Twelve Tone Music

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A method of composition developed by Schoenberg; an approach used to organize atonal music

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Expressionism in Music

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Early 20th-century German style; marked by extreme dissonance, angular melodies, irregular rhythmic groupings

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Atonality

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Music that has no tonal center; no sense of key

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Second Viennese School

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musical style forged by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern; encompasses atonality, Expressionism, and often the twelve-tone method

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Inversion

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rewriting a melody upside down

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Retrograde

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rewriting a melody backward

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Tone Row

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Fixed order of the twelve chromatic pitches; the basis of a twelve-tone composition

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Canon

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From the Latin for “law”; strict imitation of a musical line at a fixed interval throughout

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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German for “tone-colour melody”; individual notes of a melody are distributed among several instruments and often over a wide range; a concept developed by Schoenberg in the early 20thcentury

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Sprechstimme

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German for “speech-voice”; a vocal technique developed by Schoenberg and used for the first time in his song cycle Pierrot Lunaire; the singer/reciter performs what sounds like “pitched speaking”

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Pierrot lunaire op 21 genre, composition date, language, german, translation of title, source of text

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Genre- song cycle
Composition date- 1912
Language- german
Translation of title- Moonstruck Pierrot
Source of text- twenty-one poems by Albert Giraud

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Die Mondleck key, form, tempo, meter, translation of title, performing forces, text summary

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“Die Mondleck” (no.18)
Key- atonal
Form- Rondeau
Tempo- Very quickly
Meter- 3/4
Translation of title- The Moonfleck
Performing forces- voice, piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Text summary (story)- Pierrot is upset by a white fleck on his black jacket. He doesn’t realize it is a moonbeam and rubs the spot.

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Die Mondleck summary

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-brisk angular melody
-flickering effect
-contrapuntal devices such as three-voice fugue

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O alter Duft aus Marchenzeit key, form, tempo, meter, translation of title, performing forces, text summary

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Key- Atonal
Form- Rondeau
Tempo- Bewegt (with motion)
Meter- C
Translation of title- “O Scent of Fabled Yesteryear”
Performing forces- voice and eight instruments
Text summary- A nostalgic Pierrot basks in warm sunlight, dreaming of life’s happy possibilities

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O alter Duft aus Marchenzeit

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-Melodic lines are more flowing and lyrical, a traditional sound that hints at tonality
-Wistful and dream-like quality of the text is depicted through the parallel-third writing and the use of triads

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Schoenberg dates

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1874-1951

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Schoenberg life

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-Born in Vienna, Austria
-Family struggled financially after father’s death
-Schoenberg left school and worked at a bank for five years to support his family
-played cello in an amateur orchestra
-Married Mathilde
-Moved between Berlin and Vienna several times in his early career
-Attracted private students in Vienna
-Earned very little money as a teacher and composer
-Served briefly in WWI, left him depressed and slowed his musical output
-Moved back to Berlin to be master-class instructor
-Moved to Los Angeles

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Schoenberg musical style

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-supported atonality and developed the twelve-tone method
-contrapuntal textures, chamber-like sonorities
Schoenberg’s music can be divided into four stylistic periods
-Post-romantic, programmatic elements, lush orchestration
-Expressionist, marked by rejection of tonality, polyphonic, dissonant procedures
-Twelve-tone, composed using twelve-tone, used classical forms
-American, greater stylistic diversity, more liberal twelve-tone composition

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Schoenberg compositions

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-Pelleas und Melisande, three piano pieces, gurre-lieder

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Cluster Chord

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A dissonant chord consisting of major and minor seconds; often employed in atonal music

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Expressionism in Music

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Early 20thcentury German style; marked by extreme dissonance, angular melodies, irregular rhythmic groupings; explored deeply psychological themes

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Wozzeck genre, composition date, language, source of plot, libretto, and structure

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Genre- Expressionist opera
Composition date- 1922
Language- German
Source of plot- 19th- century play Woyzeck, by Georg Büchner
Libretto- prepared by the composer himself
Structure- three acts; five scenes in an act

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Plot summary of Wozzeck

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Plot summary- Wozzeck, a soldier, is subjected to Captain’s taunts and the Doctor’s dietary experiments. His wife, Marie, has been unfaithful to him. Wozzeck meets Marie by a pond, and he stabs her to death. When he returns to search for his knife, he wades into the water and drowns.

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Act 3, Scene 4 notes

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-To open the scene, a six-note repeated chord is played by woodwinds and horns; the chord recurs throughout the scene in different guises
-Extended harp passage rises from the depths at the mention of the “blood-soaked moon”
-frenetic, angular vocal line covers a wide range
-a backdrop of dialogue between doctor and captain, dense, six-note chord formations swell chromatically

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Alban Berg dates

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1885-1935

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