MUSIC HISTORY EXAM Flashcards
WHO WAS INNFLUENCE TO NEOCLASSICALISM AND WHAT IS IT
-STRAVINSKY
-REJECTION OF ROMANTICISM
WHAT WAS SATIE’S APPROACH TO MUSIC
SATIRCAL, ANTI-ROMANTICISM
HOW DOES MILHAUD CREAT DISSONANCE IN LA CREATION DU MONDE (GOOFY HADESTOWN)
LAYERING CONSONANT TONES
WHEN WAS THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND WHO LED IT
LENIN IN 1917
WHAT WAS THE VIEWPOINT OF MUSIC TO THE RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION OF PROLETARIET MUSIC
CONSERVATIVE, ANTI-MODERN
WHAT DID THE MANIFESTO OF 1929 SAY IN REGARDS TO MUSIC, CLASS, AND STRAVINSKY
FOLK MUSIC WAS FOR THE PROLETARIET AS THE RULING CLASS HAD ACCESS TO INSTRUMENTS. THEY DID NOT LIKE STRAVINSKY (NEOCLASSICALISM)
DURING THE RULE OF STALIN IN 1929, WAS WAS SOCIALIST REALISM AND FORMALISM
SOCIALIST REALISM: MUSIC THAT PROMOTED SOVIET VALUES
FORMALISM: EXPERIMENTAL
WHAT IS DMITRI SHOTAKOVICH’S, “THE LADY OF MACBETH OF THE MITSENSK DISTRICT” ABOUT
DARK THEME AND EXPRESSIONISTIC: WOMAN- AFAIR, MUDERS, ON THE RUN
WHAT WAS EDGARD VARESE KNOWN FOR
ORGANIZED SOUND AND SOUND MASSES (GROUPING OF SOUNDS)
WHAT WERE THE 2 THINGS HENRY COWELL WAS KNOWN FOR
TONE CLUSTERS AND PLAYING INSTRUMENTS UNCONVENTIALLY
WHAT TECHNIQUES OF UNCONVENTIAL PLAYING ARE USED IN COWELL’S, “THE BANSHEE”
-RUBBING ON PIANO STRINGS
-DAMPER PEDAL PRESSED DOWN
WHAT SOUND DID AMERICANISTS ROOT THEIR MUSIC IN
FOLK MUSIC
WHAT WAS AARON COPLAND’S IMPACT ON
FILM SCORES
WHO DID AARON COPLAND STUDY WITH
NADIA BOULANGER
WHAT IS BEPOP
-SMALL JAZZ COMBOS WITH LOTS OF IMPROV
-VIEWS JAZZ AS AN ART/CLASSICAL MUSIC
IN ANTHROPOLOGY, WHO PLAYS SAX AND WHO PLAYS TRUMPET
PARKER SAX, DIZZY TRUMPET
WHAT SONG IS ANTHROPOLOGY BASED ON
I GOT RHYTHM CHORD CHANGES
WHO WAS OLIVER MESSIAEN
INFLUENTIAL TEACHER IN EUROPE (PARIS)
WHAT INFLUENCED MESSIAEN’S MUSIC
-CATHOLICISM
-BIRD SONG
-INDIAN, ANCIENT GREEK, MEDIEVAL MUSIC
WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE WAS MESSIAEN INSPIRED BY IN “THE END OF TIME”
THE BOOK OF REVELATION
WHO WAS MESSIAEN INFLUENCEDBY
DEBUSSY
WHAT OLD TECHNIQUE DID MESSIAEN USE
ISORHYTHM (REPEATED SEGMENTS)
COLOR= PITCH, TALEA= RHYTHM
WHAT IS INTEGRAL SERIALISM
-DEVELOPMENT OF 12 TONE MUSIC
-SERIES OF MUSICAL ELEMENTS IN CONJUNCTION (DYNAMICS, ARTICULATION, TEMPO)
WHO DID JOHN CAGE STUDY WITH
SCHOENBER AND COWELL
WHAT IS CAGE’S PREPARED PIANO
OBJECTS PUT ON PIANO STRINGS FOR SPECIFIC/PERCUSSIVE SOUNDS
WHAT IS CAGE’S SQUARE ROOT FORM
SUBDIVISIONS HAVE SAME PROPORTIONS AS LARGER ONES
WHAT WAS CAGE INFLUENCED BY
ZEN BUDDHISM
WHAT IS INDETERMINANCY AND WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF IT
GIVING UP CONTROL IN A PERFORMANCE; CAGE’S 4’33”
WHAT IS CHANCE MUSIC
UNPREDICTABILITY/CHANCE IN COMPOSITION
WHAT IS BABBITT’S PHILOMEL BASED ON
OVID’S PHILOMENA, AND OTHERS
(GRUSOME STORY)
WHAT WAS MILTON BABBIT INTERESTED IN
SERIALISM AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
WHAT TECHNIQUE DID BABBITT USE IN PHILOMEL
CHORDS WITH ALL CHROMATIC SCALE NOTES, RETROGRADE
WHAT IS TEXTURAL MUSIC
CONVENTIAL NOTIONS FOCUSED ON COMPLEX SOUNDS WITH INSRTUMENTS OR ELECTRONICS
WHAT IS PHASE MUSIC AND WHO DEVELOPED IT
-REICH
-TEMPOS THAT START TOGETHER, GROW APART, AND COME TOGETHER AGAIN IN A PHASE
