Module 13

Question 1

Late Romantic Era

Answer 1

-Cultural ear and musical genre that flourished from roughly 1850-1900

Question 2

Romantic music

Answer 2

• A focus on subjective emotions and personal experiences
• National pride
• Musical richness or flamboyance requiring virtuosic skills

Question 3

Music before Late romantic period

Answer 3

• Stiff and rigid

- Rules were strict

Question 4

Modernism

Answer 4

• Music of the 20th century

- Characterized by freedom and experimentation with traditional rules of music composition

Question 5

Gustav Mahler

Answer 5

• Austrian composer of the late 19th century
• One of the last Romantic composers from this region
• His compositions represent the synthesis of the century of Austro German Romantic music into something new and fresh
• He wrote narrative symphonies

Question 6

Symphonies

Answer 6

-Compositions with several musical parts made to be played by large ensembles

Question 7

Narrative

Answer 7

• They follow something of a storyline because they were based in emotional experiences
• Also included vocals to emphasizes the emotional aspect of the musical experience
• Use voices as part of the symphony as just another instrument

Question 8

Claude Debussy

Answer 8

• Late-Romantic French composer of the late 19th and early 20th century
  -Associated with impressionism
  -His music evoked the impression of a mood emotion, feeling, or atmosphere
  -Some of his works
  ~Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
  ~La Mer

Question 9

Impressionsim

Answer 9

• Impressionists were painter who used color to capture the felling of a passing moment in time to capture an impression

Question 10

Bela Bartok

Answer 10

• Hungarian composer of the early 20th century
• One of the major composers who helped transition of Romantic and Modernist music
  -Use of elements from folk songs as parts of formal symphonies
  -He helped create
  ~Ethnomusicology
  ~Non-traditional time signatures
  ~Tempos
  ~Cords
  ~Keys
  ~Scales
  ~Rhythms

Question 11

Ethnomusicology

Answer 11

• The study of folk music

Question 12

Impressionism in music

Answer 12

• Stresses tone color
• Atmosphere
• Fluidity
• Movement took place between 1890-1920
• Heavily influenced by both impressionist art and French symbolist poetry

Question 13

Tone color

Answer 13

-The quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another

Question 14

Dissonant

Answer 14

-Unstable and tense

Question 15

Chromatic scale

Answer 15

-Using ever note

Question 16

Whole tone scales

Answer 16

-Having a whole step between each note

Question 17

Fluidity

Answer 17

-Alterations done to the rhythm of the work

Question 18

George Gershwin

Answer 18

• He worked as a composer for $15 a week after dropping out of school
• He was influenced by his time in Paris and atoned his expertise and jazz
  -Some of the pieces he wrote
  ~Blue Monday
  ~Porgy and Bess
  ~Lady Be Good
  ~Show Girl
  ~Girl Crazy

Question 19

Folk opera

Answer 19

-Mix the new style of jazz in with what was considered classical music
~Works like Blue Monday

Question 20

Leonard Bernstein

Answer 20

• Worked for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as an assistant conductor
  -Some of his works
  ~Candide
  *Brought to life Voltaire and lent in comedic flare
  ~Trouble in Tahiti
  ~A Quite Place
  ~West Side Story