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Norton Anthology of Western Music Chapter 31 32
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Undergraduate 4
02/25/2013

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Claude Debussy
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Impressionist composer, sourced musi from all around the world. Very unique and impacting

-Prelude to the afternoon of a faune
-Nocturnes
-Pelleas et melisande
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Impressionism
Definition
panting
typically evokes a mood, feeling, atmosphere, or scene
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Symbolism
Definition
Poetry
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Maurice Ravel
Definition
Impressionist composer, creation, craftsman.

-Daphnis et chloe
-le tombeau de couperin
-bolero
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Name three Spanish nationalist composers
Definition
Isaac albeniz
Enrique Granados
Manuel de falla
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Name two English nationalist composers
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Ralph Vaughn Williams
Gustav Holst
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Name a czech nationalist
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Leos Janacek
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Finnish nationalist
Definition
Jean Sibelius
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Three Russian Nationalist composers
Definition
Sergei Rachmaninov
Alexander Scriabin
Erik Satie
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Post Tonal Music
Definition
Encompassed all the new ways that composers organized pitch, from atonality to neo-tonality.
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Avant-garde
Definition
A term used to describe the composers and music who explored new areas in music never before thoroughly explored or seriously considered.
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Futurism
Definition
The rejection of accepted instruments and established pitches. Replaced with machine noise.
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Modernism
Definition
Not concerned about impressing the listener on first hearing, but rather sought to challenge our perceptions and capacities, providing an experience that would be impossible through traditional means.
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Atonality
Definition
Developed by Arnold Schoenberg, a term for music that avoids establishing a tonal center.
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Set, Pitch-class set
Definition
To treat the notes of a motive containing three or more pitches just as we might a triad or other tonal chord, as a collection of pitches that could be transposed, inverted, arranged, etc.
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Expressionism
Definition
Exaggerated gestures, angular melodies, and unrelenting dissonance to convey emotions.
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Sprechstimme
Definition
"speaking voice" Approximating the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following the rhythm exactly.
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Second Viannese School
Definition
ArnoldSchoenberg
Alban Berg
Anton Webern
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Wozzeck
Definition
The outstanding example of expressionist opera.
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Klangfarbenmelodie
Definition
(tone color melody) in which changes of tone color are perceived as parallel to changing pitches in a melody.
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Primitivism
Definition
A deliberate representation of the elemental
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Neoclassicism
Definition
Revived and imitated pre-romantic music
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Newtonality
Definition
Finding new ways to establish a single tonality.
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Three periods of Igor Stravinsky with examples
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Russian

Periods-
Russian Period/Primitivism- The Rite of Spring
Neoclassicism- Symphony of Psalms
Serial/Neotonality- Agon
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Bela Bartok
Definition
Hungarian, born in the austro-hungarian empire.

Created individual modernist idiom by synthesizing elements of Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, and Bulgarian peasant music. Was a virtuoso Pianist, piano teacher, and ethnomusicologist.

Works= Mikrokosmos and Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.
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Charles Ives
Definition
American

Fluent in:
American Vernacular
Protestant church
European Classical
Experimental

Pieces=
General William Booth goes to heaven
Three places in New England
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