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Musical Elements in the 20th Century Flashcards

1
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The terms borrowed from the visual arts

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Impressionism and Expressionism

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2
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What does musical impressionism employs?

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  • Open Chords
  • Whole-Tone Scales
  • Free Rhythms
  • Wide Intervals
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3
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Music with impressionistic style is _________

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programmatic

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4
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Impressionism describes emotion based what the composers ____ and demonstrates ______

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  1. sees

2. vague-sounding scales

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5
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A foremost impressionist composer

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Claude Debussy

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6
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Claude Debussy is born in France on ______

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August 22, 1862

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7
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Who saw Debussy’s talent and helped him?

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One of Chopin’s students

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8
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What did Debussy qualified for?

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The Paris Conservatory

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Who are the Russian composers that Debussy gained knowledge from?

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Tchaikovsky, Borodin, and Mussorgsky

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10
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When did Debussy graduated?

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in 1884

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What occupations that his friends had that led Debussy to create music that reflects emphasis on color, mood, and misty atmosphere?

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Impressionist painters and Symbolist poets

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12
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The two Orchestral works of Debussy

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  1. La Mer (The Sea)

2. Nocturnes

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13
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The three piano compositions of Debussy

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  1. Petite Suite
  2. Estampes
  3. Images
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14
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What do Expressionism emphasizes?

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intense and subjective emotions

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15
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Expressionism can be used in making one’s voice heard on some issues in the society. True or False?

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True

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16
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The 3 composers identified as Expressionists

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  1. Arnold Schoenberg
  2. Alban Berg
  3. Anton Webern
17
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The 2 works of Alban Berg

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Wozzeck and Lulu

18
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A work of Anton Webern

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Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

19
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What is the expressionism’s attempt?

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to break with traditions

20
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What are the 3 techniques or methods the Expressionism composers have come up?

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  1. Atonality
  2. Twelve-tone System
  3. Multiple Serialization
21
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When music is atonal, there is no tonal center or underlying key. True or False?

A

True

22
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What is the other name for Twelve-tone system?

A

dodecaphonic

23
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What does the twelve-tone system refer to?

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it refers to music based on serial manipulation of the twelve chromatic pitches

24
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The twelve-tone system is one form of serialism. True or False?

A

True

25
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Multiple serialization only pitches of the tone row are _____ in series.

A

manipulated

26
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When and where was Schoenberg born?

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in Austria in 1874

27
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Schoenberg was not self-taught. True or False?

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False, he was self-taught

28
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The two instruments Schoenberg learned to play in an early age was the ______ and the _____

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  1. Violin

2. Cello

29
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Why did Schoenberg took a job? What was his job? On what age did he started working?

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  1. He had to take the job because his father died
  2. His position was a bank clerk
  3. He started working being a bank clerk in his 16th
30
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What was Schoenberg’s first masterpiece?

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Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 in 1899

31
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Who wrote a huge cantata, Gurrelieder (Songs of Gurre) from 1901 to 1910?

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Arnold Schoenberg

32
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Schoenberg taught music theory and compositions in Vienna in what year?

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in the year 1904

33
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Who was Schoenberg’s students?

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Alban Berg and Anton Webern

34
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The 4 works of Schoenberg that he used a twelve-tone method

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Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (Moonstruck Pierrot, 1912), A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1974), The Violin Concerto, Op. 36 and Piano Concerto, Op. 42

35
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In Pierrot Lunaire, what did Schoenberg developed?

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he developed a gliding speech-song called Sprechstimme or Sprechgesang.

36
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What is Sprechstimme?

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a unique vocal style that is half-spoken and half-sung text. an other term for Sprechstimme is Sprechgesang

37
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Is A Survivor from Warsaw a dramatic cantata or a bright and joyful cantata?

A

a dramatic cantata

38
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What did Schoenberg employed in his work called the A Survivor from Warsaw?

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he employed sprechstimme

39
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Is Musical expressionism is emotionally-oriented, harshly dissonant, and tonal?

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no, it is atonal. the other answer are correct except for tonal

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