Unit 6

Question 1

Jean Coulthard style

Answer 1

RVWilliams, Bartok, Copland Schoenberg influencers
NeoRomantic lyricism, emotional
popular
nationalism
serialism a little electronic a little
pedagogy piano violin
Officer of the Order of Canada

Question 2

Jean Coulthard titles

Answer 2

orch: 4 symph Canada Music, Pines Emily Car, Birds Lansdowne
concerto violin
chamber: SQ, duo piano violin, v,cello
piano: etude, sonata, theme+var
vocal: choral song cycle spring rhapsody
opera: The return of the Native

Question 3

The Contented House; Canadian Mosiac general

Answer 3

Coulthard
1974
vancouver
7 songs; lullaby snowy enveing
mam'zelle quebecois
d'sonoqua song
harbour sounds
contented house
billowing fields wheat
happy new year

Question 4

Contented House general

Answer 4

f major
free form
changing meters
folk song a la claire fontaine

Question 5

Contented House Intro

Answer 5

serene homorhythmic fnrech horn support

copland influence searching strings

Question 6

Contented House Rehersal D

Answer 6

dolce, oboe folk song
flute folk dolce expressivo
climax only mf density icnreases
woodwind trills, timpani roll, crash cymbals

Question 7

Contented House Reherseal E

Answer 7

gentle mood
clarinet parallel 6th
triangle
flute folk song

Question 8

contened house Reherseal F

Answer 8

pop a pop crescendo
original progression full form
 clarients descent, triangle delicate
flute violins folk tune
morendo French horn dies away

Question 9

Harry Somers style

Answer 9

12 tone, canadian influence
serialism, quasidiatonic, neoclassical
Boulez and Messiaen influence
Bartok, Copland nationalisn quotation
no more tonality 1960s
four languages
programmatic
light music - for amatures

Question 10

Harry Somers titles

Answer 10

orch: Sketches for orchestra, noth country, picasso suite
opera: Louis Riel, Mario the MAgician, Serinette
vocal: Voiceplay, 5songs for dark voice, 5 songs newfoundland
piano: 5sonatas, strangeness of heart, nothing too serious

Question 11

stephen sondheim style

Answer 11

lyrics writer, quality of language - link to character
multi-dimensional characters
didactic theater
complex issues
concept music
leitmotifs
through composed
rich harmony brahms, ravel
master contrapunctal writing

Question 12

Stephen Sondheim titles

Answer 12

musical: Gypsy, Company, A little night music, Follies, Pacific overtures, Sweeny Todd, Into the Woods, passion, Assasins

Question 13

Steve Reich style

Answer 13

Euro and nonWestern
african drumming, Balinese Gamelan
american jazz, hophop, guitarist
minimalist, proces of change phase shift
motoric drive
Pulitzer Prize double sextet

Question 14

Steve Reich titles

Answer 14

elc: come out, its gonna rain, electric guitar phase, different trains
chamber: 18musicians, proverb, city life, six pianos, drumming, clapping
drama: three tales, the cave

Question 15

Electric Counterpoint general

Answer 15

1987
guitar
3 move
solo and recorded

Question 16

Electric Counterpoint mov 1

Answer 16

44, fast tempo, one sharp E natural minor
minimalist slow changes
relentless tempo momentum
breif syncopated motives, dancelike
sudden contrast modulations 3 flats
layered second, thirs triads
dissonant mild, static harmony

Question 17

Electric Counterpoint mov 2

Answer 17

4 sharps, 3/4, 5/8, 4/4 slow
attacca drive
solo upper lines
gentle phrasing
canon voices added density
constant synco

Question 18

Electric Counterpoint mov 3

Answer 18

1 sharp, D mixo
3/2 fast tempo
attacca as well
unity to other movements intervals inversions
strummed chords stricking difference
more variety
modulations to 3 flats and back
final; 5 voice texture cresenco mf
9th interval
relentless till the end- Ghanian drumming