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Grieg (Country)

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Norway

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Sibelius (Country)

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Finland

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Rachmaninov (Country)

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Russia

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Smetana (Country)

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Czech

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De Falla (Country)

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Spain

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Nielsen (Country)

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Denmark

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Skryabin (Country)

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Russia

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Dvorak (Country)

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Czech

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Vaughan Williams (Country)

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England

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Elgar (Country)

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England

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Franck (Country)

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Belgium

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Prince Igor

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Borodin

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Boris Godunov

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Musorgsky

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The Bartered Bride

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Smetana

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Elektra

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Strauss

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Jenufa

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Janecek

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Ruslan and Lyudmilla

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Glinka

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Hansel and Gretel

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Humperdinck

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Daphnis and Chloe

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Ravel

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Symphony of a Thousand

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Mahler

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Peleas and Melisande

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Debussy

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Peer Gynt

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Grieg

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Who and what was the mighty handful?

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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

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Define Impressionism

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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

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Ravel vs. Debussy

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Ravel - Neo-Classicist - structured, easy to follow, clear transitions between sections, clear harmonic structure, clear time signatures
Debussy - Impressionism - dissonance

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Influences on Debussy’s music

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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

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Define Nationalism in music

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use of musical influences associated with a specific country
still be based in western-art music, merely adding national elements

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Relationship between Mahler’s symphonies and song cycles

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melodic material from song cycles used in Symphonies
Ex. Songs of Wayfarer - Symphony #1
Boy’s Magic Horn - Symphonies #2-4

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Who wrote the programmatic suite “The Planets?”

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Gustav Holst

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Famous Danish composer of six symphonies

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Nielsen

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What is the eight-note scale alternating half and whole tones?

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octatonic

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Name a ballet by Tchaikovsky

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Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

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Tchaikovksy’s last symphony is subtitled

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Pathetique

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Tchaikovsky overture (blank) was based on a play by Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet

35
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Dvorak’s Most Famous Symphony

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New World

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The Italian song book and the Spanish Songbook were composed by

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Hugo Wolf

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Pictures at an exhibition was composed by (1), for which instrument? (2) It was orchestrated by (3)

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Musorgsky
Piano
Ravel

38
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Who used the mystic chord?

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Scriabin

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Name one song cycle by Mahler

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Kindertotenlieder (songs on the death of children)

da lied von der erde

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Name three Strauss tone poems

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Macbeth, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Also Sprach Zarathustra

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Name two Sibelius tone poems

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Finlandia, Tapiola

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The Patriotic 1812 overture was composed by

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Tchaikovsky

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Who composed “Sea”, “London,” and “Pastoral” symponies

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Vaughan Williams

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Composer of nine symphonies, fantasy on greensleeves

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Vaughan Williams

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Which Russian composer wrote a book on orchestration?

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Rimsky-Korsakov

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A Night on Bald Mountain

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Musogrsky

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Which Strauss tone poems is based on a Cervantes novel?

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Don Quixote

48
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Der Rosenkavlier is an opera by

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Strauss

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Discuss the English Nationalistic Music.

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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.”

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The influences on the symphonies of Bruckner

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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.

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