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Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, No. 8 Nacht Flashcards

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What responses do Expressionist artists seek to depict?

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Emotional

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What does Expressionism confront?

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Human reality

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What is a common feature of Expressionism?

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Uneasiness

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What does Expressionism depict the destruction of?

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The trust between humans and th world

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Expressionism is seen as a way of conveying?

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Inner reality or truth

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What were three prominent Expressionist painters in Germany and Austria?

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Franz Marc, Max Beckmann and Egon Schiele

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What notable Expressionist artist was born in Russia but came to Germany to hone his craft?

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Wassily Kandinsky

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What is the most widely recognized Expressionist painting?

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The Scream

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Who painted The Scream?

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Norwegian Edvard Munch

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Who used himself as a model for a number of self-portraits that made him seem stressed or even anguished?

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Arnold Schoenberg

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What musical style is the first that many think of when they hear the term avant-garde?

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Expressionism

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In all Expressionist works what dominates over consonance?

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Dissonance

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What city was the hub of musical Expressionism?

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Vienna

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What was Arnold Shoenberg’s landmark achievement?

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Erwartung 1909

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What is Erwartung about?

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One singer accompanied by orchestra narrating her experience of searching for her lover at night, stumbling through a dark forest finding his corpse and suffering a mental breakdown

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Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Arnold Shoenberg made up what school?

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The second Viennese School

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WHat was Webern’s best example of Expressionism?

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Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op, 10

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What is Berg’s most celebrated Expressionist work?

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The opera WOzzeck 1917 to 1922

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What is a common them in Expressionist music?

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madness

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What does Pierrot luanire translate to?

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Moonstruck Pierrot

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What has been blamed for bizarre behavior?

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The moon

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WHat are two stock figures in commedia dell’arte?

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Harlequin and Colombine

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Who was Pierrot in commedia dell’arte?

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A mischief maker who would get into trouble and land on his feet, he was painted with heavy white make-up and dressed in a white costumes

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How many poems did Giraud publish in French describing the various misadventures of Pierrot?

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50

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Who translated Albert Giraud’s 50 poems from French to German?

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Otto Erich Harleben

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What is a song cycle?

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A set of vocal pieces connected in some way, by musical motifs or by texts

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What happens in Pierrot lunaire?

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He gets drunk on moonbeams and sobers up as the sun rises

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Who commissioned Schoenberg to write Pierrot lunaire?

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ALbertine Zehme

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What did Zehme expect Schoenberg to compose for Pierrot lunaire?

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A piano accompaniment

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How may players when in the group that produced Pierrot lunaire?

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Fiive

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How many instruments were used in PIerrot Lunaire?

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EIght

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What are the eight instruments used in pierrot lunaire?

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Cello, piano, flutist, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola

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What instrument does the flutist double with?

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The piccolo

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What instrument does the clarinetists also play in Pierrot Lunaire?

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The bass clarinet

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What instrument is the violinist expected to play at times in Pierrot Lunaire?

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The viola

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What is sprechstimme?

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When notes are half spoken, half sung

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What subtle Expressionist message can we glean from the voice seldom relating to the instruments in Pierrot Lunaire?

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That we are each alone in the world

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How does Schoenberg divide up his 21 songs?

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into threee sets of seven each

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What pattern does Giraud use in his poem?

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ABACA

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What are Reisenfalter?

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Black moths or butterflies

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What is a passcaglia?

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When new melodies appear over a repeating bass line

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How long is Schoenberg’s passacaglia bass line?

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Three notes long

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What is an ostinato?

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A short pattern that repeats many, many times

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WHat is fermata?

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When performesrs sustain a particular note longer than its written value

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How is the cellist asked to play in Pierrot Lunaire?

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On the bridge

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What is the effect of the cellist playing on the bridge in Pierrot Lunaire?

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IThe strings cannot virate very freely and the cello’s timbre sounds glassy and chilly

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What is word-painting?

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When a composer set the music so that it illustrates the literal meaning of a particular word

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What word is word-painted in Nacht?

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Duft

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What does duft mean?

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Fragrance

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What is the only word in Nacht performed by conventional singing rather than by Spreschstimme and what does it mean?

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Vershwiegen which mean mutely

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Who called Pierrot lunaire the solar plexus of the 20th century?

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Igor Stravinsky

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