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| American composer who first applied serial organization to dimensions other than pitch. Music like science ""who care's if you listen" |
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Baroque Organist and composer
Wrote sacred cantatas for Lutheran church service (choral/solo with orchestral accompaniment)
Brandenburg concertos
Well-Tempered Clavier
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Hungarian composer
Collector of Folk-music
Don't Quote folk-music--let it become a part of you |
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Studied with Nadia Boulanger
Neoclassicist, Nationalist, Modernist, Serialist
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Established the French music tradition
Considered impressionistic (though he didn't want to be)
His opera changed the opera tradition--very anti-Wagnerian
Gamelon--pentatonic scales (world's fair 1889) |
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"Third Stream" Jazz and Classical
Porgy and Bess |
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Baroque German composer
Known for his Italian Operas and English Oratorios (including Messiah) |
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Anticipatory composer
Using cluster chords before they were named
Real-life sound--bands clashing |
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Important Post-Romantic Composer
Orchestral music--10 symphonies
Song cycles with Orchestra (ven mein schatz) |
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French composer--Neo-classic
Drew upon many sources--Jazz, Liszt, Baroque, etc.
Also considered "impressionist" as he worked from themes rather than textures.
Brilliant Orchestrator
Orchestral music, ballets, 2 operas, chamber music, piano music. |
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Atonality
At first tried to write by instinct as direct expression of subconscious.
12-tone method
He taught Anton Webern and Alban Berg
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Viennese composer who created more than six hundred Lieder and several famous song cylcles
Erlkonig
Die Schone Mullerin |
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German composer (1810-1856)
Married to Clara
Song cycle and lieder |
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Neo-classic/ during Nazi Regime
Attempted to conform to bureaucratic wishes
emphasized parody and satire
Lady Macbeth/symphony #5 |
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Bohemian composer/czech nationalist
8 operas (the bardered bride)
Orchestral music--My country: The Moldau |
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African-American composer (mid 1900's)--earned a number of firsts for blacks in classical music.
Afro-American Symphony (first work performed by a major symphony orchestra)
Orchestral music
4 ballets
Vocal music, choral music, chamber music, piano music, film scores |
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Post-Romantic
Known for programmatic symphonic poems
Opera--salome, elektra, der rosenkavalier |
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Primitivism
Firebird Suite
Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov
Very clean breaks between compositional periods:
Student period
Nationalist Period
Neoclassic period
Serialist Period
He is nicknamed the "Chameleon"
He drops earlier elements of his composition completely as he changes styles. |
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| BALLET (late 1800's) Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker suite |
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| Contemporary American Composer "Fanfare for the Uncommon woman" |
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| Italian nationalist and Romantic opera composer (28 operas) |
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Baroque Composer:
Orchestral music (over 239 violin concertos, the four seasons)
Chamber music (sonatas and trio sonatas)
Vocal music (oratioros and magnificat) |
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German Romantic Composer best known for Opera
Music dramas united by leitmotifs--Gesamtkunstwerk
High emotional quality
chromatic dissonance
The Ring Cycle:
Das rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Parsifal |
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Pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
Short works--unusual combinations of instruments in extreme registers
Serialist in more than just melody |
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American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Atonal
Post-modern/neo-romantic
smaller-scale concertos for relatively uncommon instruments.
small number of choral works and song cycles.
Peanuts Gallery
Millenium fantasy |
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Mainly Neo-classicism (Baroque)
Fortspinnung
"Musician's Musician"
Gebrauchmusik--music for use. Valid rep for every instrument. |
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ncredible Orchestrator
Classic form/lyricism
Modernistic melody/harmony (innovation)
Motoric rhythm (toccata like) |
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American "Melodist"
Neo-romanticism
Traditional forms
Very emotive |
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Populist
Neo-classic/Neo-romantic |
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