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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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Define pointalistic composition.

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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

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2
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What piece is associated with pointalism?

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Webern Symphony Op. 21: mvt. 1 Ruhig schreitend

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2
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What are some characteristics of the expressionist movement?

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Exploring concepts of the human psyche. Art: distortion of outlines and body parts. Could be abstract but doesn’t have to be.

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3
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Name one expressionist painter and the name of their piece.

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Art: Ludwig Kirchner Street Dresden

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4
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Name one expressionist poet and the name of their poem.

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George Trakl “Night Song”

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5
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Who are the expressionist composers talked about in class.

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Weber and Schoenberg

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6
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Describe some characteristics of traditional Bulgarian music.

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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

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7
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How is an atonal piece unified?

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Motivic Realtionships. Twelve-tone rows. Developing variations

Theme fragments

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8
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Define the basic elements of serialism.

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Serial structure

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9
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Define serial structure

And associate a composer

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Each contrapuntal line is a row answered by an inversion of that row.HUge shifts in register. Disjunct melody.

Webern

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10
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Define Tone Cluster. Who used this?

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Bartok

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11
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Define Pentatonic Scale. Who used this?

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Bartok

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12
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Define Pedal Point. Who used this?

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Bartok

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13
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Define Symmetrical patterns. Who used this?

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Webern and Bartok

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14
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What is the name and genre of Duke Ellingtons piece?

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Cotton Tail. Big Band Jazz

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15
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Define Contrafact

Like contract.

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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

16
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What is the name and Genre of Weill’s piece?

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“Ballad of Mack the Knife” from Threepenny Opera. Moritat

17
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Define Moritat

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murder ballad. A song glorifying the life of a criminal. Listing off a criminals crimes

18
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What was the name and genre of King Olivers piece?

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West End Blues. New Orleans Jazz

19
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What is the name and genre of Milhauds piece?

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The Creation of the World, 1st tableau. Ballet. Neoclassical

20
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What is the name and genre of Schoenbergs piece?

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Pierrot Lunaire “Nacht”. Melodrama. Expressionism

21
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Define melodrama

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Style of vocal writing with approximate pitches and exact rhythms.

22
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Define Passacaglia.

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Type of ostinato. Used by Schoenberg

23
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What is the name and genre of Bessie Smiths piece?

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Backwater Blues. Blues.

24
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What is the name and genre of Stravinskys peice?

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Octet for wind Instruments. Mvt. 1 Sinfonia. Octet. Neoclassical

25
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What is the name and genre of Bartoks piece?

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Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, Adagio. Modernsim

26
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What is the name and genre of Weberns piece?

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Symphony op. 21 mvt. 1. Pointalism

27
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Define Neoclassicism

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Reviving older pieces and styles. Imitating and evoking preromantic styles

28
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Describe Stravinskiy neoclassical compositions.

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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

29
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Define Blues

A

Blues notes, Scales degrees 3 5 6 which are placed for expressive purposes
Phrases descended to the tonic. Bessie Smith Backwater Blues

30
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Define New Orleans Jazz

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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

31
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What were the ideals of Les Six

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Seeking to free French music from foreign domination. Anti-romantic. Valued simplicity and clarity.

32
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Who were the members of Les Six?

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Honegger. Milhaud. Poulenc. Tailleferre. Auric. and Durey.

33
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Discuss the political movement that Weill and Brecht were associated with.

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New objectivity. Opposed complexity. Valued familiarity.

Weimar Republic

34
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Define Swing

And associate with a composer

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Jazz meant to accompany dancing. Big Band Jazz like Duke Ellington

35
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Describe the ways Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera) was influenced by 18th century music and by jazz.

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18th century texts
A chorale-like melody
French Overture
American Jazz
Street Music
1 tune from the Beggar’s Opera
Cabaret Performances

36
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Define Scat Singing

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Mimicking instruments with the voice. Luis Armstrong.

37
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Discuss some of the Serbo-Croatian elements of Bartoks piece

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Short accented notes with long 32nd note ornamentations

38
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Describe cyclical characteristics of Bartoks piecce

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Tritones. Fugue theme fragments. Characteristics the unify the works.

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