Modernism + Modernist Revolutions

Question 1

Lady of Shallot
Romanticism

Answer 1

• yearny, love, individual
• interpretation of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, The Lady of Shalott. The poem’s about the mysterious lady of Shalott who has been cursed in a castle, forbidden to look outside.

Question 2

Psycholorial
Realism

Answer 2

inner worlds of characters
are the real world

Question 3

Miss Julie

Answer 3

wanted the
audience to
ask “what makes
them tick?”

Connection
Ibsen but
Ibsen worked
on a societal level

Question 4

Industrial Revolution

Answer 4

transition from creating goods by hand to using machine
- makes people nostalgic

Industrialization Art turns to Realism

Question 5

Modernism

Answer 5

at beginning of the 20th century, artists + intellectuals who went against tradition into radical experimentation.

Question 6

Changes at the beginning of the 20th Century

Answer 6

Film
Women’s Rights

Question 7

Orientalism

Answer 7

the West’s fascination with the “East.”
Middle East or Far East (Japan or China)

Question 8

Madame Butterfly

Answer 8

Puccini
Sympathetic to Japanese culture. Based in Realism.

Question 9

The Mikado

Answer 9

comic opera in the UK; negative depiction and disrespectful.
Lots of Othering.
Also othering in Salome

Question 10

Charles Darwin

Answer 10

Theory of Evolution.
Against teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious ideas.

Question 11

Sigmund Freud

Answer 11

The Interpretation of Dreams.
Dreams as a wish fulfillment?
Sexuality

Question 12

The Common Practice - 1600-1900

Answer 12

1) Tonal Harmony.
- Major + minor chords.
- Sense of a home chord.
- Each chord is in relation to the one before + after.
- Consonance and dissonance.
2) Melody.

Question 13

Globalization-1889 World Fair in Paris

Answer 13

Puccini hears music from Japan, and Debussy hears music from Java

Question 14

Javanese Gamelan

Answer 14

Ensemble of 20-25 players playing percussion instruments.
Mostly wood and metal; many different timbres.

-osintinato
-colotomic
-pentatonic

Question 15

Osintinatio

Answer 15

repeated rhythmic idea

Question 16

Colotomic

Answer 16

different rhythmic cycles

Question 17

Pentatonic Scale

Answer 17

5 note scale
2-2-3-2-T
used in Javanese Gamelan

Question 18

Japanese Mode

Answer 18

A B C E F

Question 19

Impressionist painters + photography

Answer 19

What were they trying to capture in their art?

Nature, colour + shapes
Spontaneity
Emphasis on light, colour and shades.

Monet Cathedral
No clear lines
Individual brush strokes, little flecks

Question 20

Debussy

Answer 20

wants music to flow, rid of tonality and be free.

“Pagodes”
Floating
Like Water
No Clear Melody
No Clear or Demanding Need to Resolve

“Afternoon of a Faun”
Blurry
Dreamlike (Harp)

How?
No clear beat
No clear melody - little instrument “flecks” (in + out)
Dynamics - quiet
Harps + flutes + instruments that are quiet are not as strong as a clear timbre

Question 21

Traditional Ballet

Answer 21

• upward direction
• round

Question 22

Faun

Answer 22

half human half goat waking
from a sleep with nymphs

Question 23

Igor Stravinsky

Answer 23

Modernist Composer
“Rite of Spring”
-ballet
- primitivist

Question 24

Les Fauves
“The Wild Beasts”

Answer 24

used colour to present emotion rather than an image in front of you

Question 25

Picasso

Answer 25

after realism

“Desmoiselles d’Avignon”
lots of angles colours
masks lots of artists were
painting the other through masks

“Primitivism”
painting African masks on women to represent primal emotions - othering

Question 26

Primitive

Answer 26

a way to escape European decadence get back to what’s important basic human emotion

non-western