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| "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" was composed by: |
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| "Maple Leaf Rag" was composed by: |
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| "The Rite of Spring" was composed by |
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| "Pierrot Lunaire" was composed by: |
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| "The Concord Sonata" was composed by: |
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| "Rhapsody in Blue" was composed by: |
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| A rhythmic pattern that shifts the musical accent from its expected position |
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| Year of "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" |
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| Year of "The Rite of Spring" |
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| Year of "Pierrot Lunaire" |
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| Year of "The Concord Sonata" |
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| Year of "Rhapsody in Blue" |
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| A form of dramatic declamation between singing and speaking |
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| How did Joplin insure that he made money from the Maple Leaf? |
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| He and his lawyer negotiated a contract so that he would receive royalties. |
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“...four aspects of late-nineteenth century American musical life...” that spawned ragtime:
the cakewalk
the march
sheet music
the concert band
Explain the influence of each. What musical aspects of the cakewalk and the march were combined? |
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The cakewalk: Plantation dance where slaves parodied their white owners. It was an international dance craze. Ragtime writers took the idea of syncopation.
The march: Ragtime writers took this even & neat shape as the form for their music.
Sheet music: Most people learned new music by buying the sheet music - "Maple Leaf Rag" sold thousands of copies. |
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| Rimsky-Korsakov. Who was he? |
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| The father of a fellow student of Stravisnky and leading composer of the RUssian nationalist school. |
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| Why was there a riot at the premiere of "The Rite of Spring?" Could there be such a riot at a similar concert today? |
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| The piece's sound was described as brutal, savage, and chaotic - the audience witnessed something new and original unfold in front of their eyes. It is not likely that such a riot would occur at a similar concert today because we have been exposed to more types of music and we can't be as easily shocked. |
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| a manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated and colors are intensified for emotive or expressive purposes. |
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Who were the composers of the FIRST
Viennese School?) |
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| Pierrot Lunaire (what’s “lunaire”? Who’s Pierrot?) |
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the mythical tortured clown
"the disassociated images of a dream" |
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| Define “12-tone”. Define “serial”. |
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a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music
serial: a way of relating the human mind to the world and creating a completeness when dealing with a subject |
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“Classical” forms: why are they important to Schoenberg?
e.g., passacaglia, canon, fugue
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| To control the potentially chaotic situation. He sets some songs in traditional form of a song cycle - organization |
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| What’s a sonata, by classical definition? By baroque definition? |
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sonata: a composition for one or two instruments, typically in three or four movements in contrasted forms and keys
baroque: "misshapen pearl" |
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“This is music that could not have been written in Europe.” ....Why? (om Ives)
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| Because there are several recognizable American tunes in "The Concord Sonata" |
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| Why did Ives develop so differently from the other American composers of his time?? |
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| While the other American composers of his time went off to Europe to develop, he trained with his father. |
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| Ives got a degree from Yale; how did he get along with Horatio Parker, the master teacher there? |
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| He found Park to be a bright man but had limited himself to what the German tradition had taught him and eventually stopped sharing his experiments with him. |
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| Ives - Insurance Man?!?!?! |
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| Ives was in the insurance business during the day and any other time was dedicated to music. |
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| The role(s) of quotation in Ives’ music. |
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| Ives believes great themes are universal and should continue to grow and expand. He uses quotations to make musical sense. |
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| a musical group of connected free fantasies, often with an epic, heroic, or national character. |
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| What is the (technical) difference between composing songs and “concert music”? |
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| When composing "concert music" he focused on the design of the musical structure and work on organic growth and thematic development. |
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| note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. |
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| “Tin Pan Alley” Carnegie Hall --define and locate them. |
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Tin Pan Alley was b/w 5th & 6th Avenue in New York City.
Carnegie Hall - One of the most famous venues in the US. Located in Manhattan, New York. |
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| Basque ancestry: What does it have to do with his Ravel's music? |
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It was the first music he ever heard and it haunted him for all his life.
"The Basques feel deeply but seldom show it, and then only to a very few." |
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