Test 3 Flashcards
Define pointalistic composition.
Expected the listeners to be able to connect related pitches like the painting connects same collared dots
Constantly changing orchestral colors (Like Mahler on drugs)
Webern
What piece is associated with pointalism?
Webern Symphony Op. 21: mvt. 1 Ruhig schreitend
What are some characteristics of the expressionist movement?
Exploring concepts of the human psyche. Art: distortion of outlines and body parts. Could be abstract but doesn’t have to be.
Name one expressionist painter and the name of their piece.
Art: Ludwig Kirchner Street Dresden
Name one expressionist poet and the name of their poem.
George Trakl “Night Song”
Who are the expressionist composers talked about in class.
Weber and Schoenberg
Describe some characteristics of traditional Bulgarian music.
Bulgarian folk music had asymmetrical meters m. 25 in Bartok’s’ song
2+3+3 (pg. 292 in anthology)
Bartok got drones probably from Bulgarian bagpipe music. M. 5 in song
How is an atonal piece unified?
Motivic Realtionships. Twelve-tone rows. Developing variations
Theme fragments
Define the basic elements of serialism.
Serial structure
Define serial structure
And associate a composer
Each contrapuntal line is a row answered by an inversion of that row.HUge shifts in register. Disjunct melody.
Webern
Define Tone Cluster. Who used this?
Bartok
Define Pentatonic Scale. Who used this?
Bartok
Define Pedal Point. Who used this?
Bartok
Define Symmetrical patterns. Who used this?
Webern and Bartok
What is the name and genre of Duke Ellingtons piece?
Cotton Tail. Big Band Jazz
Define Contrafact
Like contract.
new tune over borrowed harmonic progression that was used in an earlier piece. Chorus of Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm is used in Ellington’s piece
What is the name and Genre of Weill’s piece?
“Ballad of Mack the Knife” from Threepenny Opera. Moritat
Define Moritat
murder ballad. A song glorifying the life of a criminal. Listing off a criminals crimes
What was the name and genre of King Olivers piece?
West End Blues. New Orleans Jazz
What is the name and genre of Milhauds piece?
The Creation of the World, 1st tableau. Ballet. Neoclassical
What is the name and genre of Schoenbergs piece?
Pierrot Lunaire “Nacht”. Melodrama. Expressionism
Define melodrama
Style of vocal writing with approximate pitches and exact rhythms.
Define Passacaglia.
Type of ostinato. Used by Schoenberg
What is the name and genre of Bessie Smiths piece?
Backwater Blues. Blues.
What is the name and genre of Stravinskys peice?
Octet for wind Instruments. Mvt. 1 Sinfonia. Octet. Neoclassical
What is the name and genre of Bartoks piece?
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, Adagio. Modernsim
What is the name and genre of Weberns piece?
Symphony op. 21 mvt. 1. Pointalism
Define Neoclassicism
Reviving older pieces and styles. Imitating and evoking preromantic styles
Describe Stravinskiy neoclassical compositions.
Modern dissonance
Neutrality
Rapid changes in meter
Discontinuities and juxtapositions in mood
Superimposition of multiple layers
Ostinatos
with Classical Era forms and Baroque style rhythms
Octet for Wind Instruments mvt. 1
Define Blues
Blues notes, Scales degrees 3 5 6 which are placed for expressive purposes
Phrases descended to the tonic. Bessie Smith Backwater Blues
Define New Orleans Jazz
Creole people were classically trained and could read music
African Americans were and could not. They were more improvisatory. Took inspiration from Ragtime.Instead of R hand syncopation it was specific instruments
Instead of L hand having a march like Bass, it was specific instruments. Jelly Roll Morton
Also, West End Blues
What were the ideals of Les Six
Seeking to free French music from foreign domination. Anti-romantic. Valued simplicity and clarity.
Who were the members of Les Six?
Honegger. Milhaud. Poulenc. Tailleferre. Auric. and Durey.
Discuss the political movement that Weill and Brecht were associated with.
New objectivity. Opposed complexity. Valued familiarity.
Weimar Republic
Define Swing
And associate with a composer
Jazz meant to accompany dancing. Big Band Jazz like Duke Ellington
Describe the ways Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera) was influenced by 18th century music and by jazz.
18th century texts
A chorale-like melody
French Overture
American Jazz
Street Music
1 tune from the Beggar’s Opera
Cabaret Performances
Define Scat Singing
Mimicking instruments with the voice. Luis Armstrong.
Discuss some of the Serbo-Croatian elements of Bartoks piece
Short accented notes with long 32nd note ornamentations
Describe cyclical characteristics of Bartoks piecce
Tritones. Fugue theme fragments. Characteristics the unify the works.
