Test #2 Flashcards
The Musical Museum
the idea that newly written work has to be enough like the old works to fit in, but never enough to be interesting
Beethoven’s shadow
Biss’ book, a meditation on the art of performing Beethoven’s piano sonatas
decadence
term introduced by critic in the mid 1880’s to criticize the fin de siecle culture of the rarefied, artificial, esoteric, exacting taste and an acceptance of perversity; subsequently a favorite term of totalitarian authorities for uncooperative artist
decadent element of Struss’s Slome
shocking subject matter and decription of his opera
about a young girl who can only be aroused by death
end with her kissing a dead head
orientalism
musical depiction and representation of non European people. The representation of a “distant” culture as exotic
orientalist elements of Carmen
Carmen is a sensual character. Chromaticism played in her Habanera
Habanera
the name used outside to decpribe the Cuban contradance, names after Havana Cuba, all classes of society dance it.
the principal of developing variation
the are very subtle variations on a small amount of material, the process happen over a whole movement and is revealed best in repeated listening and score study.
whole tone scale
sense of “floaty” feel, lack of gravity, dreamly, Deemphasizing melody.
atonality, atonal
music that has no system of key or mode. there is no clear tonic, sounds tonally free and unresolving
second Viennese school
Schoenberg was the head along with two pupils, Webern and Berm Haydyn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Emancipation of Dissonance
dissonance was now free as consonance, and as valid
Modernism
commitment by artist of the late 19th century and the early 20th century to reflect the historical present and move toward the future. A revolt against the late romanticism and musical naturalism
futurism
an early 20th century movement encompassing the work of Italian artist (futuristi), notably poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and painter Luigi Russolo, who called for an “art of noise” and invented devises to produce sonic representation of the flourished and almost immediately after the 1917 revolution and involved extended instrumental techniques; their approach influenced american ultra modernists such as Henry Cowell
maximalism
radical intensification of means toward traditional expressive ends. it can include a sense of awe in the face of sublime sensuality. works are usually vast, loud; long words with complicated textures. Motifs and variations applies to Mahler and Stauss
Impressionism (in painting and music)
in Impressionistic painting, one can see the brush strokes. Artist may leave blobs of pain on the canvas. It is representational - you can still tell what the painting depicts. it aims to capture the transitory visual impressions or feelings
Expressionism
a style of art that explores the unconscious, emotional drives, and wishes of which human subject is unaware. it may explore socially unacceptable impulses, things that are repressed (Freud). Style within the broader type of Modernism. A criticism of expressionist art is that it is unintelligible.
Spechstimme
manner of singing that is speech like; pitches are approximated. style reflects emotion and sound of natural speech. Schoenberg felt that this style was appropriate for expression ism and its extreme emotions.
symbolism
a movement in poetry. this aims to depict the world beyond the senses, a high reality. Seeing symbols in all things. raven = death
synaesthesia or synesthesia
interchangeability of senses
the occult
hidden knowledge that symbolism can receal
Ballet’s Russes
the ballet company that premiered The Rite of Spring
Sergey Diaghilev
an impresario of a company called Ballet Russes
pantomime
acting without speaking
scenarist
the person who determines how to express the plot into a dance
ballet d’action
“plot ballet” includes a scenario, planned by a sequence of dances,
primitivism
the belief that what is least cultivated by modern society (peasants, children, “savage”, raw emotions) is closet to truth. this is another, anti romantic point of view
Transcendentalism
no a musical style, it was a pin on inspiration for Ives; philosophical movement: one should respect one intuition and instinct rather than dogma or the teachings or institutions on fining god. they are not interested in rationalizing ones way to a conclusion like the Enlightenment thinkers
