Quiz 2 Flashcards
Grieg (Country)
Norway
Sibelius (Country)
Finland
Rachmaninov (Country)
Russia
Smetana (Country)
Czech
De Falla (Country)
Spain
Nielsen (Country)
Denmark
Skryabin (Country)
Russia
Dvorak (Country)
Czech
Vaughan Williams (Country)
England
Elgar (Country)
England
Franck (Country)
Belgium
Prince Igor
Borodin
Boris Godunov
Musorgsky
The Bartered Bride
Smetana
Elektra
Strauss
Jenufa
Janecek
Ruslan and Lyudmilla
Glinka
Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck
Daphnis and Chloe
Ravel
Symphony of a Thousand
Mahler
Peleas and Melisande
Debussy
Peer Gynt
Grieg
Who and what was the mighty handful?
5 Russian Composers (Borodin, Rimsky-Korsokov, Cui, Mussorgsky, Belekeirev) who sought to bring nationalism to Russian music.
unconvential, anti-establishment, founded first music conservatory in Russia - St. Petersberg
music influenced by Beethovan, Berlioz and Liszt, also Russian folk music
Define Impressionism
branched out of movement of impressionism in painting
Associated with Debussy
attempting to write music to evoke a certain mood, feeling, and atmosphere
Music less structured and more interpretive
includes much rubato, not set tempo, tone-colour and fluidity, whole-tone scale, meter less defined, ambiguous rhythmic figures, less pull of dominant-tonic traditional harmonic structure, non-resolving melodies and harmonies
Harp became more commonly used
non-functional harmony
Ravel vs. Debussy
Ravel - Neo-Classicist - structured, easy to follow, clear transitions between sections, clear harmonic structure, clear time signatures
Debussy - Impressionism - dissonance
Influences on Debussy’s music
Trip to Paris World-Expo - eastern island music gamelan
Medeival Music - parallel organum - motivated him to use parallel harmonic structures
Modality, pentatonic scale and whole tone scale
Define Nationalism in music
use of musical influences associated with a specific country
still be based in western-art music, merely adding national elements
Relationship between Mahler’s symphonies and song cycles
melodic material from song cycles used in Symphonies
Ex. Songs of Wayfarer - Symphony #1
Boy’s Magic Horn - Symphonies #2-4
Who wrote the programmatic suite “The Planets?”
Gustav Holst
Famous Danish composer of six symphonies
Nielsen
What is the eight-note scale alternating half and whole tones?
octatonic
Name a ballet by Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovksy’s last symphony is subtitled
Pathetique
Tchaikovsky overture (blank) was based on a play by Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak’s Most Famous Symphony
New World
The Italian song book and the Spanish Songbook were composed by
Hugo Wolf
Pictures at an exhibition was composed by (1), for which instrument? (2) It was orchestrated by (3)
Musorgsky
Piano
Ravel
Who used the mystic chord?
Scriabin
Name one song cycle by Mahler
Kindertotenlieder (songs on the death of children)
da lied von der erde
Name three Strauss tone poems
Macbeth, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Also Sprach Zarathustra
Name two Sibelius tone poems
Finlandia, Tapiola
The Patriotic 1812 overture was composed by
Tchaikovsky
Who composed “Sea”, “London,” and “Pastoral” symponies
Vaughan Williams
Composer of nine symphonies, fantasy on greensleeves
Vaughan Williams
Which Russian composer wrote a book on orchestration?
Rimsky-Korsakov
A Night on Bald Mountain
Musogrsky
Which Strauss tone poems is based on a Cervantes novel?
Don Quixote
Der Rosenkavlier is an opera by
Strauss
Discuss the English Nationalistic Music.
After the death of Purcell, there were no famous/ great composers until Arthur Sullivan. After that, Edward Elgar came along and he was the first English who had international reputation. He used very few English folk music in his music. Vaughn Williams used a lot of folk music in his compositions. Gustav Holst wrote band music, choral music and “The Planets.”
The influences on the symphonies of Bruckner
Wagner - length of work, great orchestration
Schubert - extremely short transitions
Beethoven - The opening of the 9th symphony - growing out of nothing, high usage of motifs.
