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Radical Modernism Flashcards

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1
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Who is in the second veinese School?

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Schoenberg, Berg, Webern

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What do we need to know about Berg?

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He made Wozzeck

-the atonal expressionist opera

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How is Wozzeck traditional?

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it uses leitmotifs and uses traditional forms (suite, rhapsody etc)
-it is well thought out expressionism, not just random

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Wozzeck Act III, Scene III

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Berg

  • Opera
  • 1917
  • unifies scene through developing variation
  • almost constant reference to familiar
  • he used expressionist techniques while keeping with traditional forms
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5
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How did Berg write his rows

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in such a way that they allowed tonal-sounding chords, progressions

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6
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What are the other pieces that Berg wrote besides Wozzeck?

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Lyric suite, violin concerto, and Lulu (his second opera)

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7
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how did Anton Weber view music history?

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  • natural law
  • great art does what is necessary
  • evolution in art is necessary
  • history and musical idioms can ONLY MOVE FORWARD
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8
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Is equality justice?

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no

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Symphony Op. 21 (175)

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Webern

  • Symphony
  • 1927
  • entire movement is 2x cannon in inversion
  • deliberately integrates them
  • Applies Schoenberg’s concept of Klangfarbenmelodie
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10
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How much influence did Webern have?

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not a lot

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11
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Where was stravinsky born?

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St. Petersburg

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12
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Did Stravisnky ever go to a conservatory?

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no

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13
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What boosts Stravisnky to fame?

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His ballets

  • Petruschka
  • firebird
  • rite of spring
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Who was Stravisnky’s main funding person?

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Sergei Diaghilev

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15
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What did Rite of Spring Cause?

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a freakin’ Riot!!!!

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16
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Where did Stravisnky move to during war years?

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Switzerland

17
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Where did STrav go during WWII?

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THe US

18
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What did Starvisnky bring from Russia?

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  • The undermining of meter
  • Good for French because that language does not have a lot of accents… it’s fluid
  • pervasive ostanato (repeating figure in base)
  • layering and juxtaposition of static blocks of sound
  • dry antilyrical, colorful use of instruments
19
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What is period number 1 for Stravinsky?

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the Russian period

20
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What company performed Stravisnky’s ballets in paris?

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Ballets Russes

21
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How can a composer AVOID a pull towards tonic?

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using the octatonic scale which has 2 major triads a tritone away

22
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what is primitivism?

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evocation of elemental, simple, natural state of prehistoric peoples

23
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Which piece did we talk about having primitivism?

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The Rite of Spring

-Igor Stravinsky

24
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What is characteristic of Stravinsky’s works?

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they don’t really elide (DISCONTINUITY)

-like where one phrase goes into the next

25
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DANSE DES ADOLESCENTES (from Rite of spring)

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  • Stravinsky
  • 1911
  • Ballet
  • Undermining meter
  • ostinatos
  • juxtaposes static blocks of blocks
26
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How did composers establish their place in classical repertoire?

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They used neoclassicism in their works

27
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Symphony of Psalms

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Stravinsky
Choral Symphony
1930
-Changing meters
-unexpected rests
-scoring for 2x reed instruments, evokes renaissance consort
28
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Serial period

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  • 12 tone methods extended to parameters other than pitch

- music based on series became known as serial music

29
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Who popularized neoclassicism?

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Stravinsky

30
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What is important to know about Bela Bartok

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  • He was a virtuoso pianist, educator, ethnomusicologist, and composer
  • performed as virtuoso pianist all over Europe
31
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What was Stravinsky’s 2nd period?

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the neoclassical period

32
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Mikrokosmos No. 23, Staccato and legato

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Bartok

  • etude
  • 1926-39
  • use of canon andinversion between the two hands
  • successfully blended peasant and classical traditions
  • tonal structure reminiscent of Bach
33
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (MSP)

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-Bela Bartok
-symphony suite
-1936
-neotonality (1 and 5 w/o common practice
harmony)
-analogous to modal melodies and folk songs
-form and counterpoint from classical tradition

34
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Charles Ives

A
  • did not study music lot

- works in obscurity for most of his life

35
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What was Charles Ives’s Father?

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a bandmaster
-so, he was around a lot of small town music (church, band)
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36
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What are Ives’ four distinct spheres

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  • vernacular music
  • protestant church music
  • European classical music
  • experimental music
37
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General William Booth Enters into Heaven

A 
Charles Ives
Song
1914
-art song drawn from American vernacular and Church music
-experimental piano drumming
-polytonality and novel chord structure
38
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Piano Suite Op. 25

A 
Schoenberg
Suite
1921
-Founded the 12-tone method
-12-tone rows stand for keys
-shaped course of musical practice in the 20th century
39
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Pierrot lunaire Op. 21

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Schoenberg
1912
song cycle
-had expressionist elements (Sprechstimme)
-return to form (motives, themes, etc..)
-had traditional elements (varied repetition)

Music History III (5 decks)

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