quiz 6 Flashcards
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arnold schoenberg when
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1874-1951
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schoenberg who
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austrian jewish composer
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schoenberg where
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vienna, then us to escape nazis
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schoenberg type of music
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atonal, modernist; “abandoning tonality” around 1908
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schoenberg accomps
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one of first works of atonal music + 12 tone composition
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schoenberg influence + type of music
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german late romantic composers (name sounds german) > chromatic + innovative
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anton webern when
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1883-1945 - “ant”, ends in 3 as in 3 letters; 45, webern, war
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webern original career
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conductor
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webern school
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second viennese - vebern viennese
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webern musical belief
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repetition unnecessary - unlike a web??
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webern literary term
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aphorism - short, like his name
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webern music traits
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few notes, lots of silence, disjunct melodies
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webern techniques music used
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harmonics, col legno bowing “wacky webern” vebern violin … ext techniques
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atonal music
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no rules of harmony; avoidance of pitch ctr
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expressionism where when
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germany scandinavia, 1880-1925
expressive: long = later in cent; even nbrs e and e
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expressionism traits
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intense emotion, isolation, madness, deranged psych state; reaction to impressionism and realism
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expressionism painting chars
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distortions of color, form; unease, altered reality
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expressionist subj matter
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war, poverty, disease, inhumanity
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neoclassicism
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drawing inspo from classical pd
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pizzicato
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breh
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ext technique
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also breh
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pierre boulez when
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1925-2016
25 year old baker
2016 6 letters in first and last names
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boulez which school
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darmstadt “boulez darmstadt energy”
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boulez advocated for
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“rational” aesthetic “pierrational”
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boulez big innovation term
integral serialism/control music "pierre was the stone who was integral in serialism"
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boulez characteristic
abstract, non-representational
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boulez big texture
pointillism
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integral/total serialism
serial procedure applied to all aspects of music instead of just pitch > pitch, rhythm, timbre, dynamics
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pointillism
seemingly random but actually carefully oranized "points" of sound, each isolated in a separate range and timbre; no conventional melody
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john cage when
1912-1992 - he was "caged" in the early 1900s? and then his whole name is 8 letters for 80 years living
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john cage style
avant garde
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john cage what
composer, philosopher, author, lecturer, visual artist
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john cage teacher + influences
schoenberg, non-western culture, percussion, indonesian gamelan, ZEN BUDDHISM
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cage composed for type of ensemble + called what
percussion ensemble; all sound music of future
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western percussion only ensemble started when
post 1920
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cage extended technique
prepared piano
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cage new type of music
aleatory/indeterminacy/chance music > he wasnt "caged" in by norms
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cage new performance type
happening
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cage 4'33"
silent piece
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4'33" when
1952
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percussion ensemble cage quote
"all sounds acceptable to composer of percussion music"
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prepared piano
inserting objects between piano strings according to composer instructions
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aleatoric music/indeterminacy/chance music
intentional intro of random elements during composition and/or performance of music > not predictable to composer (they flip a coin or something and the performer does what they want) or performer (they make mistakes sometimes); allowance of any sounds, even accidental
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chance operations
composing randomly > flipping a coin to compose; structure and randomness
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graphic notation
unconventional written manner of conveying musical ideas > seems more visual than musical; encourages improv
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happening
multiple forms of art simultaneously performed without coordination; multiple pieces performed simultaneously
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electroacoustic music originated when
after ww2 - ww2 ended, the tape began
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electroacoustic music
any natural sound is a sound object; manipulation of these to make new timbres
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musique concrete
music based on natural/real world sounds
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4 manipulations
filtering out, overdub, manipulate speed, sound reversal
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filtering out
physically cutting tape
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overdubbing
combining diff sounds
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pure electronic music
construction and precise control of timbre of musical sounds instead of using natural sounds
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additive synthesis
combination of pure sine waves for artificial overtones
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subtractive synthesis
components of complex sound where specific components are filtered out to produce new timbres
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karlheinz stockhausen when
1928-2007 stockhouse like what was needed in great depression (1928); 07 like almost heinz (57)
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stockhausen significant accomps
first examples of pure elec music; first pub score of elec music
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stockhausen gesang der junglinge
combo concrete sounds and pure electronic sounds with sine tones and filtered noise from subtract synthesis
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gesang der junglinge when
1956 - +4 from 4'33"
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luciano berio when
1925-2003 - 25 to 03, avant garde and free - leaves of 3, berries
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berio taught where
juilliard > founder of juilliard ensemble
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berio sequenze
solo instruments (the silly ones) > silly sequenze
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sequenze genre
fantasia
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berio sinfonia when
1969 - sin
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sinfonia genre
... symphony
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sinfonia ensemble
amplified vocal octet (8 letters in sinfonia), orchestra; extended techniques for voice (whisper, shout, etc)
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sinfonia mvt 2 meaning
"o king" tribute to mlk jr; his name repeated
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sequenzas
berios works for solo instruments; ext techniques, dramatized performance
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fantasia + relation to sequenza
traditionally, 1mvt work for solo inst, imaginitive, innovate, virtuosic, improv character
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cathy berberian when
1925-1983 - 25 like berez (both b), 83 stripsody rhyme
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berberian what
amer singer + composer; avant garde
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berberian married to who
berio; wrote works specifically for her
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berberian influence
historically informed performance; attempt to recreate earlier music using methods + instruments originally used - like a historical liberberarian
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berberian stripsody when
1966 - because it sounds awful and satanic (6)
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berberian noted for
virtuosity in avant garde works
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vocalise/ese?
textless song for voice, as in stripsody
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quotation music/musical quotation/collage
like a remix! can be musical or verbal quotes
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georgy ligeti when
1923-2006 - 23 rhymes with both his names and 2*3 is 6. and 2006 06 for 6 letters in his names
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ligeti what music
electronic music; inspired by sounds encountered in recording lab; idk his name sounds kind of electronic somehow
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ligeti background
hungarian jewish composer, from romania
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ligeti worked with who
stockhausen
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ligeti new style term
soundmass
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ligeti new texture term
micropolyphony
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soundmass comp
eschew conventional melody; merging orch cluster, detailed activity indistinguishable within the larger mass of sound
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micropolyphony
texture term; individual parts lost within complex sonic activity; individ instruments play imit or non imit poly so closely spaced that its indiscernible
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john cage two ways of incorporating aleatory (comp and perform)
rolling dice, highlighting imperfections in music paper; accidental noise
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points of 4'33"
make people uncomfortable and learn to experience nonmusic sound/reevaluate sound; they become performers
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webern four songs wiese im park genre
chamber art song
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webern four songs wiese im park ensemble
soprano, 13 player chamber orch (polyphony? homophony?)
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webern cantata freundselig genre
probably cantata idk
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boulez bourreaux de solitude genre
cycle of chamber art songs
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boulez bourreaux de solitude ensemble
alto voice, mixed chamber ens
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boulez bourreaux de solitude comp process
integral serialism - remember he was the rock/pierre, integral for serialism
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boulez bourreaux de solitude harm lang
atonal
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boulez bourreaux de solitude texture
pointillism - notes in "solitude"
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gesang der junglinge used which types of noise
sine and filtered through subtractive synth
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berio sinfonia o king genre
symphony
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berio sinfonia in ruhig fliessender specific genre
scherzo - part of symphony - "keep going!" like keep dancing - scherzo is a dance
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berberian stripsody style
avant garde??? seriously not sure what else to put for this piece
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ligeti lux aeterna style
soundmass + neoclassical
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ligeti lux aeterna harm lang
atonal
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ligeti lux aeterna texture
micropolyphony
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ligeti atmospheres ensemble
full orchestra, no percussion
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aphorism
accomplishing the "point" of the music in a short amount of time
