Test 4 Flashcards
32 Bar Song Form (A-A-B-A)
Classical Symphonic Pattern
A-A-A
12 Bar Blues
A-A-A-A
Strophic
A-B-A-B-C-B
Verse/Chorus
First theme in tonic key
Bridge with modulation to new key
Second theme in new key
Closing section
Exposition
New treatment of themes, modulations
“Bottle”
Height of tension
Development
First theme in tonic key
Bridge
Second theme in tonic key
Closing section
Recapitulation
optional closing section
Coda
-an immense amount of richness and variety where many styles existed
-emphasis on self expression and individual style
-individual style
-expressive subject material
Romantic
instrumental music that represents an idea, an individual, a poem or a scene
Program Music
-impermanence, change, and fluidity
-unstable harmony
Impressionism
impressionism began here
Art Salons of Paris
-develops own tonal language
-lot of Russian influence
-establishes an unstable scale
Debussy
function should always dictate form
-philosophical and cultural movement through the 19th and 20th centuries
-rejected enlightenment thinking and religious beliefs (tradition)
-reaction to the Great War
Modernism
music that lacks tonal center
Atonal