Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet Flashcards
What is the closest parallel in art to atonality in music?
Cubism
What is the effect of a lack of a resting tone in atonal music?
There is no sense of home
What art critic created deemed the paintings of George Braque geometric schemas and cubes?
Louis Vauxcelles
What term did Arnold Shoenberg hate?
Atonality
What term did Schoenberg prefer to atonality?
Apantonal
What did Schoenberg feel it was time to abandon?
The obligation to craft chords that performed functional relationships
What was one of the most revolutionary ideas of the 20th century music?
Emancipation of the Dissonance
When did Schoenberg begin to articulate his views on atonality?
In a 1911 harmony textbook
What was the Scandal Concert?
Berg’s performance of Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4 on March 31, 1913
How many months after the Scandal Concert was the “riot” of Spring?
Two moths
What principles did Schoenberg introduce in the 1920’s?
His principles for twelve tone serialism
To what did theorists draw parallels between atonality and?
Experimental literary writers of the early twentieth century who was abandoning linear narrative
What two authors abandoned linear narrative?
James Joyce (1882-1941) and T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
What musical style is similar to atonality?
Expressionism
What piece in the Listening Companion is an atonal piece?
Nacht
What musical style other than Expressionism can also accommodate atonality?
Primitivism
What Romantic era genre does Webern return to by using the label bagatelle?
Character pieces
What is a synonym for bagatelle?
Trifle
Webern’s entire compositional output can be contained on how many compact disks?
Three
Within the first how many measures does Webern employ all twelve notes of the chromatic scale?
7 measures
What do composers working with atonality often refer to the chromatic scales as?
Aggregate
What two new timbres does Webern ask his musicians to play?
Play on the bridge and sometimes the pluck the string instead of bowing it
What Italian verb does Webern use to request the tone color who are plucking the string instead of bowing it or playing on the bridge?
Pizziacto
What does Webern ask all the instruments to use in Six Bagatelles for String Quartet?
Use a mute
What is a mute and what does it do?
Its a small device that limits some of the string’s ability to vibrate which softens the sound
What does Ausserst langsam mean?
Extremely slow
What does Klangfarbenmelodie mean?
Tone color melody and it describes a piece in which the timbre of reach sound matters more than the rise and fall of conventional tune
What do musicians call it when notes unfold at a very unhurried pace, often with only one instrument playing?
Pointillism
How many bars long is Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet?
13 bars long
What is a synonym for canon?
Round
What song is a canon?
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
What instrument starts the canon in Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet?
The cello
At the end of measure 7 in Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet what does the cello launch?
A pizzicato canon
