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Term
Gustav Klimt
Definition
symbolist painter, mahler, 4th symphony, symbloism
Term
Kindertotenlieder
Definition
Songs on the Death of Children
Song cycle
Mahler
Term
Das Lied von der Erde
Definition
The song of the earth
Symphony
Mahler
Term
Verismo
Definition
operatic parallel to realism in literature

operas present everyday ppl
Cavalleria Rusticana (rustic chivalry) - Pietro Mascagni

The Clowns - by Ruggero Lioncavallo
Term
Pietro Mascagni
Definition
Cavalleria Rusticana (rustic chivalry)
opera
Verismo
Term
Sigmund Freud
Definition
Mahler, 4th symphony, symbolism
Term
“Symphony of a Thousand”
Definition
2nd symphony, Mahler
Term
Cavalleria rusticana
Definition
Pietro Mascagni
opera
verismo
Term
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Definition
– (the boy’s magic horn) melodies from 12 songs are used in 2-4 symp.
Term
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Definition
I Pagliacci (the clowns)
verismo
Term
I Pagliacci (the clowns)
Definition
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Verismo
Term
Giacomo Puccini
Definition
Italian
opera =
La bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
Turandot
Manon Lescaut

merged numbers opera with endless melody opera
Term
Manon Lescaut
Definition
opera
puccini

3rd opera
catapulted him into fame
Term
La bohème
Definition
opera
puccini

rapid movement of tonal center
conservative music for its era
Term
Tosca
Definition
opera
puccini
Term
Madama Butterfly
Definition
opera
puccini
Term
Turandot
Definition
opera
puccini
Term
Thomas Edison
Definition
Created a recording system for John Philip Sousa's band.
Term
Emile Berliner
Definition
Made a recording system that used a flat disc. Could be used to make any number of duplicates.
Emrico Caruso.
Term
Enrico Caruso
Definition
Tenor. First to become a super star by recordings, made by Emile berliner.
Term
Paul Verlaine
Definition
symbolist poet
claude debussy
nuages
symbolism
Term
Stéphane Mallarmé
Definition
poet
Ravel
Histoires Naturelles
-3 symbolist poems
Term
Paul Valéry
Definition
symbolist poet
symbolism
Term
Stefan George
Definition
symbolist poet
wrote the book of 15 poems "the hanging gardens"
symbolism and modernism
Schoenberg
Tell me on which path
song cycle 5th song
Term
Claude Monet
Definition
Impressionist painter
French
Debussy
Nuages
Impressionism
Term
Paul Cézanne
Definition
Impressionist painter
Debussy
Nuages
Impressionism
Term
Pablo Picasso
Definition
Cubist painter
Stravinsky
cubism
Term
Georges Braque
Definition
Cubism
Cubist painter
Term
George M. Cohan
Definition
Vernacular Music
popular or folk music
American

-Little Johnny Jones
-Give My Regards to Broadway
-The Yankee Doodle Boy
Term
Little Johnny Jones
Definition
Vernacular music
George M. Cohan
Term
Franz Léhar
Definition
Austrian
operetta
the merry widow
vernacular music
Term
The Merry Widow
Definition
Franz Lehar
operetta
Term
Victor Herbert
Definition
American
vernacular music
operetta
babes in toyland
Naughty Marietta
Term
Babes in Toyland
Definition
Victor Herbert
operetta
Term
Naughty Marietta
Definition
Victor Herbert
operetta
Term
Gustav Holst
Definition
English
Band Music
Suite No.1 E-flat Major
Suite No.2 Fmajor
Planets
Term
Suite No. 2 for military band
Definition
Gustav Holst
Band music
Term
Percy Grainger
Definition
Australian
Lincolnshire Posy
Irish Tune from County Derry
Band Music
Term
Lincolnshire Posy
Definition
Percy Grainger
Band music
Term
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Definition
English
Folk/pop/vernacular music

-English Folk song suite
-Toccata Mariale
Term
Toccata marziale
Definition
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Band music
Term
James Reese Europe
Definition
Band leader
african-american bands
Term
Will Marion Cook
Definition
Introduced new rhythms to broadway
African-American

Ragtime

-Clorindy
-The origin Cakewalk
-In Dahomey
Term
Clorindy
Definition
Will Marion Cook
Ragtime
Term
In Dahomey
Definition
Will Marion
Ragtime
Term
Scott Joplin
Definition
African-American
pianist
son of a former slave

-Maple Leaf Rag
-Treemonisha
Term
Treemonisha
Definition
Opera
Scott Joplin
Term
Maple Leaf Rag
Definition
Scott Joplin
Piano Rag
Term
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Definition
White Jazz Band
recordings of Jazz
Jazz
Term
Jelly Roll Morton
Definition
Jazz pianist

Ragtime
Recorded Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
Term
Salome
Definition
Strauss
Opera
1st
Term
Oscar Wilde
Definition
Writer
Salome based off his play Salome
Strauss
Opera
Late Romanticism
Term
Elektra
Definition
Strauss
Opera
3rd
Term
Der Rosenkavalier
Definition
Strauss
opera
4th
Term
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Definition
Play write
Strauss
Electra
opera
Term
Emmanuel Chabrier
Definition
Composer

Claude Debussy
Impressionism
Term
(España)
Definition
Term
Claude Debussy
Definition
French

-pelleas et melisande
-prelude to "the afternoon of a Faun"
-Nocturns
-Le mer
-Images
-Jeux
Term
symbolism
Definition
focuses on the senses and on the present moment. Opening new possibilities of sensuality that had strong parallel in art and music

-ravel
Term
impressionism
Definition
Term derived from art:
used for music that evokes moods and visual imagery through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre

Debussy
Term
Pelléas et Mélisande
Definition
Debussy
opera
Term
Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
Definition
Debussy
Early Piano Music
Term
Nocturnes
Definition
Debussy
orchestral piece
Term
La mer
Definition
Debussy
orchestral piece
Term
Images
Definition
Debussy
Images piece
Term
Jeux
Definition
Debussy
ballet
Term
L’isle joyeuse
Definition
The Joyous Isle
piano piece
Debussy
Term
Estampes
Definition
Debussy
solo piano
Term
Suite bergamasque
Definition
Debussy
piano suite
Term
Pour le piano
Definition
Debussy
Keyboard suite
Term
octatonic scale
Definition
A scale that alternates half and whole steps
Claude Debussy
Nuages Nocturnes
Term
whole-tone scale
Definition
A scale consisting of only whole steps
Debussy
L’isle joyeuse
Term
Maurice Maeterlinck
Definition
Librettist
Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande
Term
Maurice Ravel
Definition
French

Fountains
Balario
miroir

Fountians
Term
Miroirs
Definition
Ravel
piano piece
Term
Gaspard de la nuit
Definition
Ravel
Piano Piece
Term
Rapsodie espagnole
Definition
Ravel
Orchestra Suite
Term
Daphnis et Chloé
Definition
Ravel
Ballet
Term
Histoires naturelles
Definition
Ravel
french french
Term
La valse
Definition
Ravel
orchestral poem
Term
Tzigane
Definition
Ravel
(gypsy)
Rhapsody
Term
Iberia
Definition
Issac Albeniz
piano pieces
Term
Isaac Albéniz
Definition
Composer
spanish
Term
Enrique Granados
Definition
Spanish
composer

-Goyescas
Term
Goyescas
Definition
Enrique Granados
piano piece
Term
Francisco Goya
Definition
artist spanish

Grandos
Term
Manuel de Falla
Definition
opera la vida breve ((life is short)
Spanish
Term
El amor brujo
Definition
Ballet
Manuel de Falla
Term
The Three-Cornered Hat
Definition
Manuel de Falla
ballet
Term
Master Pedro’s Puppet Show
Definition
Manuel de Falla
Based on Don Quixote
popular music
Term
Harpsichord Concerto (de Falla)
Definition
Manuel de Falla
Concerto for harpsichord
Term
(Wanda Landowska)
Definition
Polish
Harpsichordist
Manuel de Falla's
wrote El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show)
Term
Cecil Sharp
Definition
English
Folk songs writer
Term
Norfolk Rhapsodies
Definition
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Folk Music
Term
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Definition
Ralph Vaughan Williams
english hymn
Term
The Planets
Definition
Holst
orchestral suite
Term
Leoš Janáček
Definition
Czech
folk music composer

-jenufa (opera)
-Katya Kabanová
-The Cunning Little Vixen
-The Makropulos Affair
-From the House of the Dead
-Sinfonietta
Term
Jenufa
Definition
Leoš Janáček
opera
Term
Katya Kabanová
Definition
Leoš Janáček
opera
Term
The Cunning Little Vixen
Definition
Leoš Janáček
opera
Term
The Makropulos Affair
Definition
Leoš Janáček
opera
Term
From the House of the Dead
Definition
Leoš Janáček
opera
Term
Sinfonietta
Definition
Leoš Janáček
orchestra piece
Term
Jean Sibelius
Definition
Finnish
Term
Kalevala
Definition
text used in Sibelius' orchestral works.
Term
The Swan of Tuonela
Definition
Tone Poem.
Sibelius
Term
Finlandia
Definition
Tone Poem
Sibelius
Term
rotational form
Definition
repeatedly cycling through a series of thematic elements that are varied each time
Sibelius
Term
teleological genesis
Definition
goal directed process of generating a theme from motivic fragments

-sometimes over an entire mvt. or symphony
Term
Sergei Rachmaninov
Definition
Russian

-The Isle of the Dead
-The Bells
-Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Term
The Isle of the Dead
Definition
symphonic poem
Sergei Rachmaninov
Term
The Bells
Definition
symphony
Sergei Rachmaninov
Term
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Definition
Sergei Rachmaninov
piano concerto
Term
Alexander Scriabin
Definition
Russian

-Poem of Ecstasy
Term
Poem of Ecstasy
Definition
Alexander Scriabin
orchestral work
Term
Prometheus
Definition
Alexander Scriabin
orchestral work
Term
Vers la flamme
Definition
Alexander Scriabin
1 mvt. tone poem for piano
Term
post-tonal
Definition
embraces all ways composers found to find pitch

atonality to neotonality
Alexander Scriabin
Term
avant-garde
Definition
a mvt. that directly challenges french tradition of music
Erik Satie
Term
Erik Satie
Definition
avant-garde
french

-Gymnopédies
-Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear
-Embryon desséchés
-Parade
-Relâche
-Socrate
Term
Gymnopédies
Definition
Erik Satie
piano piece
Term
Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear
Definition
Erik Satie
piano piece
Term
Embryon desséchés
Definition
Erik Satie
piano piece
Term
Parade
Definition
Erik Satie
ballet
Term
Relâche
Definition
Erik Satie
ballet with film
Term
Socrate
Definition
Erik Satie
symphonic drama
for soloist and chamber orchestra
text plato
Term
Furniture Music
Definition
Played during intermissions of play as background music
Erik Satie
Term
Luigi Russolo
Definition
Futurist painter
Italian

Erik Satie
Term
The Art of Noises
Definition
Luigi Russolo

New kind of music based on noise

Divided noises in 6 families

developed new instruments
Term
futurism
Definition
new noises in music

Luigi russolo
Term
Richard Strauss
Definition
German
Term
tone poem
Definition
Symphonic poem, or a similar work for a medium other than orchestra (most of strauss’s tone poems written before 1900
Term
Don Juan
Definition
Strauss
Tone Poem
Term
Also sprach Zarathustra
Definition
a musical commentary on Nietzsche’s long prose-poem, which proclaimed that the Christian ethnic should be replaced by the ideal of a superman who is above good and evil.

Strauss
Term
Don Quixote
Definition
Strauss
Tone Poem
Term
Miguel de Cervantes
Definition
wrote the picaresque novel that Don Quixote was based on

Strauss
Term
Death and Transfiguration
Definition
(Tod und Verklarung) was inspired by Strauss’s recovery from a life threatening illness
Term
Ein Heldenleben (a hero’s life)
Definition
openly auto-biographical, tone poem, glorifies early works Strauss
Term
Till Eulenspiegel
Definition
tone poem, strauss
Term
Gustav Mahler
Definition
German, Symphonies = 9 symphonies, and 10th unfinished symphony, song cycle (lieder eins fahrenden gesellen = Songs of a wayfarer)
Term
Songs of a Wayfarer
Definition
song cycle , Mahler, appears in the first and third movement of his 1st symp.
Term
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Definition
(the boy’s magic horn) melodies from 12 songs are used in 2-4 symp. Mahler
Term
“Symphony of a Thousand”
Definition
2nd symphony, Mahler
Term
Sigmund Freud
Definition
Mahler, 4th symphony, symbolism
Term
Till Eulenspiegel
Definition
tone poem, strauss
Term
Gustav Mahler
Definition
German, Symphonies = 9 symphonies, and 10th unfinished symphony, song cycle (lieder eins fahrenden gesellen = Songs of a wayfarer)
Term
Songs of a Wayfarer
Definition
song cycle , Mahler, appears in the first and third movement of his 1st symp.
Term
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Definition
(the boy’s magic horn) melodies from 12 songs are used in 2-4 symp. Mahler
Term
“Symphony of a Thousand”
Definition
2nd symphony, Mahler
Term
Sigmund Freud
Definition
Mahler, 4th symphony, symbolism
Term
Arnold Schoenberg
Definition
Austrian
Verklärte Nacht (transfigured night)
Gurrelieder (Songs of the Gurre)
Term
Verklärte Nacht
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
Tone Poem
Term
Gurrelieder
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
Cantata
Term
developing variation
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
SQ No.1 in d minor opus 7
The process of deriving new themes initial idea, and creating variations throughout the piece
Term
Erwartung
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
monodrama (one character opera)
Expressionism
Term
Moses und Aron
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
opera
Term
Pierrot lunaire
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
song cycle
(21 songs)
Term
Five Orchestral Pieces
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
orchestral pieces
Term
atonality
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
avoids establishing a tonal center
Term
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
three piano pieces
Term
pitch-class set
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
a collection of pitch classes that preserves its identity when transposed,inverted or recorded. And used melodically or harmonically
Term
chromatic saturation
Definition
The appearance of all twelve pitch classes within a segment of music
Arnold Schoenberg
Term
expressionism
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung
uses exaggerated, angler melodies, unrelenting dissonance to convey tortured emotions of the protag.
Term
Albert Giraud
Definition
Symbolist poet
Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire
Term
Sprechstimme
Definition
Speaking voice approximating the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech while following the notated rhythm exactly
Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire
Term
Oskar Kokoschka
Definition
expressionist painter
Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung
Term
twelve-tone method
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
method of composing with 12 tones that are only related to each other
Term
row/series
Definition
The bases of the 12-tone method
an ordering of all 12 pitch classes that is used to generate the musical content
Arnold Schoenberg
piano suite op.25
Term
prime
Definition
original form of a row
Arnold Schoenberg
piano suite op.25
Term
inversion
Definition
reveresing the upward or downwar direcctoin of each interval while maintaining its size or the new the new melody or row form that results
Term
retrograde
Definition
backwards statement of a previously heard melody, passage or 12-tone row
Arnold Schoenberg
Term
retrograde inversion
Definition
Arnold Schoenberg
the upside-down and backwards statement of a melody or 12-tone row
Term
tetrachords
Definition
a scale of 4 notes spanning a perfect 4th
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Suite op.25
Term
hexachords
Definition
a set of 6 pitches
in 12-tone theory
: the 1st 6 or last 5 in a row
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Suite op.25
Term
Alban Berg
Definition
Austrian
Arnold Schoenberg's student
Wozzeck
Term
Wozzeck
Definition
Alban Berg
expressionist opera
Term
Georg Büchner
Definition
librettist
Alban Berg
expressionist opera
Wozzeck
Term
Lyric Suite
Definition
Alban Berg
String Quartet
Term
Lulu
Definition
Alban Berg
Opera
(not completed because he died)
Term
Anton Webern
Definition
Austrian
Comp. under Schoenberg
Musicologist
Six Bagatelles for string quartet, op. 9
Symphony, op. 21
Term
Six Bagatelles for string quartet, op. 9
Definition
Anton Webern
string quartet
Term
Symphony, op. 21
Definition
Anton Webern
symphony
12-tone
Term
Klangfarbenmelodie
Definition
changes of tone are perceived as parallel to changing pitches in a melody
Symphony, op. 21
1st mvt.
Anton Webern
Term
Igor Stravinsky
Definition
Russian
fire bird
Term
Sergei Diaghilev
Definition
Russian
Stravinsky
Impresario for Ballet Russe (Russian ballet director)
Term
Ballets Russes
Definition
Russian Ballet
-based in france
Stravinsky
Diaghilev
Term
Firebird
Definition
Stravinsky
Ballet
Term
Petrushka
Definition
Stravinsky
Ballet
Term
The Rite of Spring
Definition
Stravinsky
Ballet
Term
L’histoire du soldat*
Definition
(the soldier's tale)
Stravinsky
Small orchestra Stage Work
Term
Octet for winds*
Definition
Stravinsky
neoclassical works
Term
Oedipus rex
Definition
Stravinsky
Opera-oratorio
Term
Symphony of Psalms
Definition
Stravinsky
Symphony
Term
Symphony in C
Definition
Stravinsky
Symphony
Term
Symphony in Three Movements
Definition
Stravinsky
Symphony
Term
Agon
Definition
ballet
Stravinsky
Term
Requiem Canticles*
Definition
Stravinsky
Requiem Mass
Term
George Balanchine
Definition
Ballet Choreographer
Stravinsky
Later founded New York Ballet
Term
Ebony Concerto*
Definition
Stravinsky
American Style
concerto
Term
Robert Craft
Definition
Stravinsky's assistant
12-tone method
Term
neoclassicism
Definition
Trend in music from the 1910s to the 1950s in which compsosers vrevived, imitated or evoked the styles, genres and forms of pre-romantic music, especially those of the eighteenth century
Stravinsky
Term
Nun Will Die Sonn
Definition
kindertotenlieder

song
solo voice
oboe solo
strophic -versus the same
horn solo
Term
Symphony No.4
Definition
sigmund freud --> dream
jingle bells
-ballet motive
-concerted motives
Term
Don Quixote
Definition
Term
Salome
Definition
Term
Der Rosen Kavalier
Definition
Term
La Boheme
Definition
soprano
they call meme
upward voice throws
violin sings with voice
Term
Madame Butterfly
Definition
-pentatonic
-soprano/baritone
-japenese folk motive
-micato
-sakura
Term
Military Suite No. 1
Definition
Holst
Band Music
Mvt. 1
melodic brass
Sectional
Mvt. 2
pirate music
Mvt. 3
bass clarinet
bum bum
Term
Norfolk Rhapsody
Definition
RV Williams
Disney
Term
T.S. Eliot
Definition
Modernist poet " the waste land"
Term
James Joyce
Definition
novelist "Ulysses" strem-of-consciousness
Term
Marcel Proust
Definition
novelist "Remembrance of Things Past"
Term
Bertolt Brecht
Definition
play write political (kurt weill)
Term
Virginia Woolf
Definition
feminist novelist
Term
Marcel Duchamp
Definition
Wrote the "fountain"
Term
Salvador Dali
Definition
surrealist painter; explored dream-like world
Term
Rene Magritte
Definition
surrealist painter ; explored dream-like world
Term
Walter Gropius
Definition
Architect; explored functionality, less decorated
Term
Frank Lloyd Wright
Definition
Architect; explored functionality, less decorated
Term
John Steinbeck
Definition
novelist "Grapes of Wrath"
Term
George Grosz
Definition
Artist German: simple,direct,modern style
Term
Diego Rivera
Definition
artist, Mexico: simple,direct,modern style
Term
Thomas Hart Benton
Definition
American Artist: simple,direct,modern style
Term
Bing Crosby
Definition
Singer, intimate singing style furthered by recording adances
Term
Frank Sinatra
Definition
Singer, intimate singing style furthered by recording adances
Term
Benny Goodman
Definition
Band leader, hosted radio shows w/ band
Term
Sigmund Romberg
Definition
composer, american? "The student Prince"
Term
The student Prince
Definition
opperetta, Sigmund Romberg
Term
Jerome Kern
Definition
show boat american?
Term
Show Boat
Definition
Opera, Kern
Term
Edna Ferber
Definition
Term
Irving Berlin
Definition
cheif ragtime composer "Alexander's Ragtime band"
Term
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Definition
Song, Berlin
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