Music Module 3 Flashcards
Combination of two simple ideas, It is a connection with the use of other materials from other cultures, indigenous materials, and use of materials from European ethnic groups
Primitivism
•ethnomusicologist
•exposed to different ethno cultural diversities
Bela Bartok
Bela Bartok studied her piano lesso with her mother at the age of __ and compose small dance piece at the age of __
5 and 9
Bela Bartok completed his first major symphonic work ________ along with zolthan kodaly which is know for ________
Kossuth and Kodaly method
A person who studies music in a socio cultural context
Ethnomusicologist
Includes the use of hand signals during singing exercise to provide visual aid
Kodaly method
•revival or adoption of classical music
•drew inspiration from the 18th century
Neoclassicism
• neo-classicist, nationalist, and avant garde
composer.
•His contacts with Diaghilev and Stravinsky gave him
the chance to write music for the ballet and opera,
notably the ballet Romeo and Juliet and the opera
War and Peace.
Romeo and Juliet
•featuring toccata-like rhythms
Sergei Prokofiev
● One of the relatively few composers born into wealth and
a privileged social position, the neo-classicist was a member of the group of young
French composers known as “Les Six”
● rejected the heavy romanticism of Wagner and the so-
called imprecision of Debussy and Ravel.
FRANCIS POULENC
Other members of Les six?
•George Auric—music for the movies
•Louis Durey—traditional ways
•Arthur Honegger —chamber music
•Darius Milhaud—He love jazz
•Germaine Tailleferre—only female
It is a French word for ‘advance guard” or “vanguard,” which is used to describe the
musical styles that evolved after 1945.
● center of experimentation and innovation applied in music
● closely associated with electronic music, the avant-garde movement dealt with the
parameters or the dimensions of sound in space.
Avant-garde
•crossover artists
•father of American jazz
•Influenced by Ravel, Stravinsky, Berg, and Schoenberg, as well as the group of
contemporary French composers known as “Les Six” that would shape the
character of his major works—half jazz and half classical
George Gershwin
•philosophy was that the universal language
of music is basically rooted in tonality.
● He achieved pre-eminence in two fields: conducting and
composing for Broadway musicals, dance shows, and
concert music.
Leonard Bernstein