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Psycho, Stravinsky wider listening Flashcards

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Night on bald mountain

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Modest Mussorgsky

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AO4 for Night on Bald mountain

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Unease
Restless
Unsettling
Disruption of musical flow

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Melody in night on bald mountain

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Short, fragmente phrases
Angular leaps
Ostinato in strings and winds
Cheomaticism
Rising sequences

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Texture in night on bald mountain

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Homophonic, polyphonic, countermelodies

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Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima

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Krysztof Penderecki

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AO4 for threnody to the victims of Hiroshima

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Sounds like screeching
Suffering
Pain
Distress

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Harmony in threnody to the victims of Hiroshima

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Microtones
Dissonance
Unresolved tension

High pitch beginning
Low pitch ending

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Performance techniques in threnody to the victims of Hiroshima

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Con legno
Play near the bridge
Glissandos

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Tempo in threnody to the victims of hiroshima

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Unmetered

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Music for strings, percussion, and celesta

MTV and composer

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2nd movement (ALLEGRO)

Bela Bartok

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AO4 for music for strings, percussion and Celeste 2nd movement (allegro)

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Unsettling, tense, instability

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Texture in music for strings, percussion, and Celeste (allegro)

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Fugal opening
Dense polyphony

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Harmony in music for strings, percussion, and Celeste (allegro)

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Chromaticism
Dissonance

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Tonality in music for strings, percussion, and celeste

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ATONAL

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Rhythm in music for strings, percussion, and celeste

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Syncopation
Cross rhythms

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Performance techniques in music for strings, percussion, and celeste

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Plucking
Glissandos
Play near the bridge

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Melody in music for strings, percussion, and celeste

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Folk Melodies -> Fragmented and distorted

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Structure in music for strings, percussion, and celeste

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Structural ambiguity

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String quintet n.8

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Dimitir Shostakovich

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AO4 string quintet n. 8

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Represents his inner turmoil
Autobiographical
Fear
Destruction of war and totalitarian oppression

21
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Melody in String quintet n. 8

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DSCH motif repeats all the time
Quasi mechanical repetition
Motif is played in different registers across different instruments

(He created a motif with his initials)

22
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Harmony in string quintet n. 8

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Dissonance
Chromaticism

23
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Tonality in string quintet n. 8

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C minor

However, the tonality always appears to be threatened by the chromaticism

24
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The nightmare and dawn: Vertigo

25
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AO4 for the nightmare and dawn (film: vertigo)

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Reflects the protagonist’s fractured psyche and unsettling emotional state

26
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Harmony in nightmare and dawn

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Dissonance
Chord cluster
Non-functional harmony

27
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Performance technique in nightmare and dawn

28
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Melody in nightmare and dawn

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Leitmotifs are distorted and fragmented
Repetitive

29
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Tonality in nightmare and dawn

30
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Tempo in nightmare and Dawn

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Abrupt tempo changes

31
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Four seasons: Autumn

32
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Harmony in Autumn from the 4 seasons

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Perfect 5ths
Dissonance
Chromaticism

33
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Tempo and rhythm in Autumn from the 4 seasons

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Sudden silences
Rhythmically varied

34
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Autumn, 4 seasons structure

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Programme music…

  1. Hunting scene
  2. Drunken revelry
  3. Quiet stillness with hidden foreboding
35
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Folk Melodies WIDER LISTENING

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Folk song 57

Anton J

36
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Scythian suite

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Prokofiev (1913)

37
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Performance techniques in Scythian Suite

38
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Harmony and tonality in Scythian Suite

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Dissonant
Unstable

39
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Instrumentation in Scythian suite

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2nd mvt. = Woodwind flourishes
Heavy percussion and low brass
Timpani

3rd mvt. = muted brass, soft percussion, ethereal strings, harp, solo woodwind sections

4th mvt. = triumphant brass fanfare

40
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“Sleeping Beauty”

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Tchaikovsky

41
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Melodies in “Sleeping Beauty”

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Leitmotifs used for specific characters.

Aurora: Graceful, major key -> innocence

Evil fairy: angular, dissonant, aggressive rhythms, ominous brass

Lilac Fairy: harp and string accompaniment -> protection

41
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Instrumentation in “Sleeping Beauty”

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99 players, large orchestra

42
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Harmony in “sleeping beauty”

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Lush romantic harmonies
Chromaticism
Modulations

43
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Rhythm in “sleeping beauty”

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Variety of dance styles…

Aurora’s birthday: Waltz
Courtly scenes: Mazurka and Polonaise
Flirtation and intimacy: pizzicato pas de deux

44
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Sabre dance

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Khachaturian

45
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Rhythm in khachaturian’s sabre dance

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Displacement of accents
Rhythmic ostinatos
Syncopation
Dotted rhythms
Irregular groupings
Accelerando

46
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Ewe Ghana Tribal drumming (mention the dance)

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Agbekan Dance

47
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Rhythm in Ewe tribal drumming

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Subdivision of beats
Compound times

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