Modern I

Question 1

1870 – 1900

Answer 1

• Brahms, Wagner, Bruckner, Dvorak, Mahler
• 1876 – Telephone invented
• Freud studies subconscious

Question 2

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Answer 2

• 1872 – 1958
• English Neo-Romantic, English Nationalism
• 39 Vocal/orch, 14 a cappella – secular symphony
• 25 arrangements of English folk songs
• 14 hymn tune collections, 9 choral collections
• Hodie, Serenade to Music

Question 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Answer 3

• 1873 – 1943, Russian Romantic
• All Night Vigil
• Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
• The Bells

Question 4

Gustav Holst

Answer 4

• 1874 – 1934, English – Romantic
• Part Songs, Carols
• The Planets, Hymn of Jesus
• Hymns from Riga Veda

Question 5

Arnold Schoenberg

Answer 5

• 1874 – 1951, Austro/Hungarian, 12-tone / Expressionist
• Inner (Mental) Expression (20c Psych)
• Gurrelieder (1900 – 1911) – Chorus/Orchestra
• Pierrot Lunaire – solo speaker/chamber orch (1912)
• Friede auf Erden, Three motets

Question 6

Charles Ives

Answer 6

• 1874 – 1954
• American
• Psalms 24, 67, and 90
• Harvest Home Chorales
• Circus Band

Question 7

Impressionism Style Characteristics

Answer 7

• Ravel and Debussy define Impressionism
• Modes
• Baroque forms, National styles, (including Jazz)
• Traditional diatonic system, Repeated notes, Parallel chords
• Triads more for timbre than tonality
• Chromatic passing tones and appoggiatura
• Falling 4ths and gapped scales

Question 8

Maurice Ravel

Answer 8

• 1875 – 1937
• French Impressionist
• Trois Chanson

Question 9

Pavel Chesnokov

Answer 9

• 1878 – 1944
• Russian Romantic
• 400 choral works
• Requiem

Question 10

Bela Bartok

Answer 10

• 1881 – 1945, Hungarian
• Folk Song Collection
• Cantata Profana
• Evening

Question 11

Zoltan Kodaly

Answer 11

• 1882 – 1967, Hungarian Neo-Romanticism
• Collected Eastern-Euro folk songs
• Use of asymmetry
• Numerous choral works for a variety of voicing (incl. Mixed, Treble, Male, Children)​
• Psalmus hungaricus, Ave Maria, Te Deum, Missa Brevis

Question 12

Igor Stravinsky

Answer 12

• 1882 – 1971
• Russian, Romantic, Neo-Classical, Serial
• 16 major works, Masses, Requiem
• Symphony of Psalms, Mass, Pater Noster, Credo
• Ave Mariam, Dove Descending

Question 13

Ernst Bloch

Answer 13

• 1886 – 1959
• Swiss American
• Sacred Service

Question 14

Romantic and Victorian 1837 – 1901

Answer 14

• Philosophy – Hegel
• Poets – Hoffman
• Philosopher – Kierkegaard

Question 15

Arthur Honegger

Answer 15

• 1892 – 1955
• French
• Jeanne d’Arc

Question 16

Darius Milhaud

Answer 16

• 1892 – 1974
• French
• 40 Choral Works
• Les Duex Cites

Question 17

Herbert Howells

Answer 17

• 1892 – 1982, English, 15 Anthems and motets
• Magnificat and Nunc, Hymnus Paradisi
• Christmas Carols, Here is the Little Door
• A Spotless Rose, Sir Patrick Spens

Question 18

Paul Hindemith

Answer 18

• 1895 – 1963, German American, Neo-Classical
• Numerous small works in various voicing
• 6 Chansons
• Apparebit repentina dies

Question 19

Howard Hanson

Answer 19

• 1896 – 1981, Swedish American
• 11 choral works
• Lament For Beowulf, Song of Democracy
• Mystic Trumpets, Psalm ci