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| Name the Art-Song Composers |
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| Collection of songs w/ related text (same poet) to be performed together |
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"Die Schone Mullerin"
"Winterreise"
"Schwanengesang" |
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"Dichterliebe"
"Liederkreis" |
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| Role of Piano during this period? |
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| Accompaniment and set tone of text |
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| What was Romanticism about? |
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| Self Expression, fusion of the arts |
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| Name the Romantic Piano Composers |
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| What was Liszt known for? |
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Experimenting with Harmony
Tone Poems |
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| What was Berlioz known for? |
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id'ee fixe
His work Symphonie Fantastique |
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| What were the types of Operas? |
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Always historical
Largest Budget
Serious and Huge |
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Small
Simple Music
Comical Plots |
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Large Orchestra
Large Cost
Focus on Melody and Realism |
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| What is Wagner known for? |
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| leit motif (person, thing or idea associated with a short motive) |
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| Programatic work for orchestra based on another work (one movement) |
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| What is Strauss known for? |
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Tone Poems
"Sprach Zarathrusta" (most famous tone poem) |
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"Ring Cycle"
"Paracefel"
"Tristan and Isolde" |
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| What was Brahms known for? |
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Classical Forms
hemiola (double/triple meter on top of one another) |
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| What was Mahler known for? |
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| Writing 9 huge Symphonies |
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| What was Debussy known for? |
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Impressionism
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
"LaMer"
"Nocturnes" |
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| French Impressionism vs German Impressionism |
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light, sweet - dark, heavy
no emotions - emotions
delicate refined - rougher |
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| What was Stravinsky known for? |
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ositnato (repeating, underlying part)
"Rite of Spring" (cause riot)
"Firebird"
polyrythm
polytonality |
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| What was Schoenberg known for? |
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spreechstimme (glide pitch around while singing)
12 tone method
atonal music |
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| What was Webern known for? |
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Mega short pieces
tone-color melody (take one melody and give a note to each instrument) |
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| What is Copland known for? |
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Writing music for the public
"Fanfare for the Common Man" |
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| What was Messiaen known for? |
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| "Quartet for the End of Time" |
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| What was Shostakovich known for? |
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| What was Gershwin known for? |
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classical with jazz/pop
"Porgy and Bess"
"Rhapsody in Blue" |
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| What was Britten known for? |
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"Perter Grimes"
"Billy Bud"
"Death in Venice"
"Turn of the Screw" |
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| use of restricted set of note/chords |
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| What is John Cage known for? |
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| Name the Minimalism Composers |
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| What was Penercki known for? |
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graphic notation
"Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" |
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| focus on timbre (color of instrument) |
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| Name the Spectralism Composers |
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| What is Arvo Part known for? |
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| tintinnabuli (2 lines: 1 moves free, other is members of a chord) |
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