Module 13 Flashcards
Late Romantic Era
-Cultural ear and musical genre that flourished from roughly 1850-1900
Romantic music
- A focus on subjective emotions and personal experiences
- National pride
- Musical richness or flamboyance requiring virtuosic skills
Music before Late romantic period
- Stiff and rigid
- Rules were strict
Modernism
- Music of the 20th century
- Characterized by freedom and experimentation with traditional rules of music composition
Gustav Mahler
- 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
Symphonies
-Compositions with several musical parts made to be played by large ensembles
Narrative
- 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
Claude Debussy
- 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
Impressionsim
- Impressionists were painter who used color to capture the felling of a passing moment in time to capture an impression
Bela Bartok
- 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
Ethnomusicology
- The study of folk music
Impressionism in music
- Stresses tone color
- Atmosphere
- Fluidity
- Movement took place between 1890-1920
- Heavily influenced by both impressionist art and French symbolist poetry
Tone color
-The quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another
Dissonant
-Unstable and tense
Chromatic scale
-Using ever note
Whole tone scales
-Having a whole step between each note
Fluidity
-Alterations done to the rhythm of the work
George Gershwin
- 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
Folk opera
-Mix the new style of jazz in with what was considered classical music
~Works like Blue Monday
Leonard Bernstein
- 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
