Quiz 3 Flashcards
Mathis der Maler
Hindemith
Bluebeard’s Castle
Bartok
The Rise and Fall of Mahoganny
Weill
The Rake’s Progress
Stravinsky
Wozzeck
Berg
Moses und Aron
Schoenberg
Peter Grimes
Britten
Dialogue of the Carmelites
Poulenc
Love of Three Oranges
Prokofiev
Lady of The Mtsenks District
Shostakovitch
Miraculous Mandarin
Bartok
War Requiem
Britten
A Child of our Time
Tippett
Carmina Burana
Orff
The Three Penny Opera
Weill
King David
Honegger
La Creation du Monde
Britten
Pierrot Lunaire
Schoenberg
Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky
Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev
Atonality
no tonal center lack of need to resolve to consonance extended dissonance Schoenberg began this period in 1908 notes are treated with equal importance
Polytonality
use of two or more keys simultaneously
can be used in melody and harmony
Mozart used this technique as an ending to a piece called “A Musical Joke”
Neoclassicism
Started with Stravinsky’s move away from folk influence back to western art music
Reaction to Romanticism - revival of forms, genres, and styles of the 18th century classical period
Avoiding big emotional gestures in music
emphasis on rhythm and contrapuntal texture
ex. Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky
Sprechtstimme
in between speaking and singing, similar to melodrama
voice moves up and down following a specific contour, but not necessarily singing exact notated pitches
Expressionism
expression of inner emotion
fragmented rhythm and dissonance
inner torment, emotional anguish
Examples: Erwartung by Schoenberg, Wozzeck by Berg
Gebrauchmusik
Associated with Hindemith
“music for use” as opposed to music for art
for amateur musicians to learn and perform
would be both useful and musically of value
Klangfarbenmelodie
“Tone-colour melody” - describes a succession of tone colours which provide a musical analogy for the changing pitches in a melody
Pandiatonicism
use of diatonic scale without regard to harmonic function
