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Claude Monet

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  • French painter
  • key figure in the Impressionist movement.
  • Deposited the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast.
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Whole Tone Scale

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A scale consisting entirely of intervals of a tone, no semitones
Example: CDEF#G#A#

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Octatonic Scale

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Any eight note musical scale

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Universal Exposition of 1889

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Celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille
World’s fair in Paris. 32 million visitors!

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Javanese Gamelan

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  • An orchestra of 60+ musical instruments
  • Bronze gongs, met allophones, drums, wooden flute and two-strings fiddle.
  • Most distinctive Asian musical cultures.
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Tombeau

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A musical composition in the 16th c, a poem, commemorating the death of a notable individual

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François Couperin

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  • Known for all of his harpsichord music.
  • Highly ornamented melodies and complex accompaniments.
  • French composer.
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Rigaudon

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A lively dance for couples, in duple or quadruple time.
Old Provencal dance.

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2nd Viennese School

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  • 20th century composers who sought to take music to the next logical step of compositional practice.
  • Schoenberg and his pupils
  • Modernist musical movement that introduced radical concepts to Western music, including serialism, atonality, and intentional dissonance
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Impressionism

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Style that explores mood and atmosphere
- interplay of colours
- melodies that lack direction motion
- avoidance of traditional musical form

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Expressionism

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A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist seeks to express an emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

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Wassily Kandinsky

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Russian painter. Pioneer in abstract art, extremely colorful, pure aestehci experiences. Always in shapes and colors.

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Melodram (melodrama)

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A story or play in which there are a lot of exciting events and in which people’s emotions are very exaggerated.

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Sprechstimme

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A cross between speaking and singing in which the tone quality of speech is heightened and lowered in pitch along melodic contours indicated in the musical notation.

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commedia dell’arte

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Theatrical form characterized by improvised dialogue and a cast of colorful stock characters. Formally called Italian comedy.

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passacaglia

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A musical form typically in slow triple time with variations, courtly dance.

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serialism

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A highly specialized technique and way of composition. No note should be repeated until all 12 notes of the note row have been played.

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tone row

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A particular sequence of twelve notes of the chromatic scale used as a base for serial music.

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primitivism

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A theory or belied that the qualities of early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.

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Ballets Russes

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Ballet company begin in Paris between 1909 and 1929.
Brought dancers with great traditional training to look at modern forms of movement.
Bringing music and dance together into a cohesive whole.

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Russian art critic, influence on early modern art. Founder of Ballet Russes (Russian ballet)

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neo-classicism

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Revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, and music.

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Socialist realism

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A Marxist aesthetic theory calling for the didactic use of literature, art, music to develop social consciousness in an evolving socialist state.

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Formalism

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Doing work as its form, the way it is made and its purely visual aspects. A critical approach.

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DSCH

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A musical motif used by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich to represent himself.

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Zoltán Kodály

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Hungarian composer, collector os folk songs, music educator, developed a technique for teaching young children to read music through folk material.

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ethnomusicology

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Study of music in its social and cultural contexts

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arch form

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Sectional structure for a piece of music based on repetition, in reverse order, of all overall form is symmetric, around a central movement.

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Tin Pan Alley

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A collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States.

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Song Plugger

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A vocalist or piano played employed by department stores, music stores.
- Pitch compositions to recording artists and record label teams in hopes of making a big hit.

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blue notes

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Pentatonic scale plus one note.
This note is the blue note, is the flat fifth in a minor pentatonic or flat third in major pentatonic.

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Debussy

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most important impressionist composer
- “Paints” an image of water in his piece Reflets dans l’eau (reflections on the water)

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Ravel

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  • French composer, rejected the term “impressionism”
  • known for painterly approach to orchestral sound
  • often linked with Impressionism
  • Bolero is his most famous composition and most frequently performed
    “Le Tombeau de Couperin”
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Schoenberg

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  • Austrian, American composer
  • Associated with expressionism in German poetry and art
  • leader of the Second Viennese School
  • one of the founders of musical Modernism
  • “Pierrot Lunaire” “String Quartet No. 4 Op. 37”
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Stravinsky

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  • Russian composer
  • later French and American citizenship
  • famous for Rite of Spring, it provoked riots
  • revolutionized 20c. music
  • masterpieces in every genre, notably ballet scores
  • “Le sacre du printemps” “Pulcinella: Overture”
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Prokofiev

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  • Russian composer
  • later worked in the Soviet Union
  • known for ballets such as Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella to film music
  • more or less Classical style but incorporates modern musical elements (neoclassicism)
  • “Symphony No. 1 In D, Op. 25”
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Shostakovich

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  • Soviet-Russian composer
  • internationally known after his first symphony in 1926
  • known for his 15 symphonies, many of them written under the pressures of gov. imposed standards of Soviet art
  • “String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor”
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Sibelius

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  • Finnish composer
  • most noted symphonic composer of Scandinavia
  • known for symphonies and tone poems
  • changed name from Johan Julies Christian to Jean Sibelius since while he was a student he felt inspired to adopt the same French spelling as his uncle Jean, calling it his ‘music name’
  • “Finlandia”
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Bartók

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  • Hungarian composer
  • composer, ethnomusicologist
  • known for piano, violin, and orchestra compositions
  • firmly opposed rise of Nazism
  • “Concerto for Orchestra Sz. 116”
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Gershwin

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  • American composer
  • compositions spanned popular, jazz, and classical genres
  • blended forms and techniques of classical music with elements of pop and jazz
  • An American in Paris, I Got Rhythm
  • “Rhapsody in Blue”
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Ives

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  • American composer
  • music largely ignored in early career, many of his works went unperformed for many years
  • known for his orchestral msuic
  • wrote Variation of America in 1891
  • polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, quarter tones
  • “The Things Our Father Loved”
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Copland

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  • American composer
  • Dean of American composers”
  • known for creating a truly American symphonic style
  • From Brooklyn, New York
  • Wrote about Billy the Kid while never going to the West
  • “Appalachian Spring”
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Bernstein

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  • American composer
  • known for West Side Story
  • wrote orchestral, vocal works, ballet, opera, music theater, and chamber works
  • “Chichester Psalms: II”
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Berg

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  • Austrian composer
  • “Wozzeck” Act 3, Scene 2
  • a part of the 2nd viennese school
  • wrote atonal and 12 tone compositions
  • associated with expressionism

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