MUS 121 Final
Pyotr Ilycich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake, Nutcracker, sleeping beauty all ballets composed by:
miniature composition
The Erlkonig is a:
rhythm and electronic music
Varese was known as innovative in area:
Valkyrie and Erlkonig
We watched an excerpt from:
Not a romantic composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Influences on early american music
a and b, no professional musicians among founders and that america is a melting pot
Appalachian spring is:
a ballet about a pioneer celebration in Pennsylavina
two most important elements of Wagner operatic style:
a concept of Gesamtkunstwerk and technique of leitmotiv
Song Cycle
a group of songs with a common poetic theme or common poet or other unifying element
Aida was commissioned:
a new opera house in Cairo, Egypt
True of the fifth movement of Fantastic
a plainchant melody, Dies Irae, is heard in this selection
emotional goal for 19th century music
a search for freedom of self-expression, artistic freedom
Erlkonig are consistent with all german leid:
one soloist and piano
Wozzeck is an:
opera
Symphonic Poem
orchestra work composed later in romantic period in one movement with a free form and with a program
rise of nationalism in music was a reflection:
people cherishing their distinctive artistic heritage
Romeo and Juliet
plot of west side story bears a resemblance to which of shakespeare plays
Piano accompaniment to Erkonig bring to mind:
pounding of a horses hooves
Fantastic Symphony
program symphony
focal point for romantic orchestral music
public concert hall
Progression of jazz history progress from:
ragtime, blues, new orleans jazz, swing to behop
popular themes in the romantic period
revolt, macabre, and love
violent, surging, and frantic
rhythms and tempo in a rite of spring create a mood:
False
romantic melodies have more regular phase lenghts and are less interesting than classical
Program symphony is:
romantic multi movement symphony that is based on a program
Octatonic scale
scale in which eight pitches are made to fit into the octave by alternating whole and half steps
octatonic scale
scale in which the octave is divided into whole steps only
the twelve tone system (serialism)
schoenberg invented a method called:
Statement is False
schumanns musical career was over shadowed of his wife, musically gifted (true or false)
Post World War 2 composers intent:
searching for new sound materials
3 basic forms of Lieder
strophic through composed a combo of those two
thematic transformation
technique having same fragment reappear with some transformation loosely recurring intervals
aleatoric music
term for chance music
Gesamtkunstwerk
term refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work or total work of art
Most prized romantic artist
the integrity of the expression of individual feeling
characteristics of music nationalist music:
the use of the folk music of each century
Composer _________ generally regarded most flamboyant pianist
Franz Lizst
Erlkonig composer:
Franz Schubert
Composed Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Greatest influence on early romantic composers
Thematic Transformation
Leitmotivs are developed by the means of:
separate compositions
Miniatures are generally heard as:
Handels Messiah
Model of El Nino
program music
Pictures at an exhibition is considered:
an electric compostiton
Poème Electronique is
riot by the audience
Premier of the Rite of Spring was famous for:
Composed the Valkyrie
Richard Wagner
Kitsch are from:
Russia
Second Viennese School
Schoenberg, Webern and Berg
Broadway in New York City
main source of American popular music form musical theater
Ballets
major works of Stravinsky's early period
Composing romantic "grandiose" created works
more movements, longer lengths and bigger orchestra
Ludwig Beethoven
most responsible for self expression
Minimalism
music simple melodies, motives, and harmonies, repeated and change small over long periods of time
Rubato
music term flexibility in rhythm and tempo
Atonal music
music where a tonal center cannot be found
program music
music without singing but a poem, story
Dates of 20th century
1750-present
Lied
19th century german genre consisting musical setting short poem voice and piano
Piano
19th century most likely instrument played solo:
Mahler and Berlioz
2 composers known for their large great orchestra
pentatonic scale
5 note scale playable on the black keys of the piano
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false
Aaron Copland was a great avant-garde modernist innovator WAS NOT INTERESTED (true or false)
opera
Aida is an
Jazz
American music style caught Stravinsky's ear
Wozzeck is:
Atonal
nationalism
Bartok style embraced:
Percussion
Berlioz, Symphony Fanstastique, instruments not heard before
Tom and Jerry
Cartoon we watched featured Franz and two characters
character pieces for piano
Chopin was most noted for composing: character pieces for piano
larger and bleed tone color in new ways
Compared to classical orchestra, typical romantic orchestra was:
metric modulation
Debussy influenced by
Percussion
Family of the orchestra underwent most growth and innovation in the 20th century
Rhythm section of jazz ensemble includes:
all above, drums, piano, bass
using the same themes several different symphonies
all characteristics of thematic unity in romantic symphonic except:
Concert overtune:
an overture is not connected to any following music: opera, progmmatic element
john cage 4'33'' consists of
any sound and silences occurring in performance halls
Neoclassicism
artistic movement that came after world war 1
Rite of spring is a:
ballet
early 20th century harmony:
became more dissonant
Modernist composers composed music they did:
because they felt it was the natural progression of where music should go
Purpose harmony in romantic
both a and b, accompany melodies and composed for its own sake, sound of it
Form
category is a symphonic poem different from a concert overture
John Cage father of:
chance music
newest modernist composers
changed melody, harmony and tonality
miniature composition for piano
character piece is a:
Eusebius and Florestan are:
character pieces that represent two personality aspects of composer
use of long, sweeping beautiful, inspired melodies
characterize a modernist approach to melody except:
Fantastic symphony includes:
chorus
Sprechstimme
combination of song and speech
Romantic treatment of tone color
combining and blending different instrumental tone color
John Adams
composed El Nino
Robert Schumann 2
composed Eusebius and Florestan from carnival
Hector Berlioz
composed Fantastic Symphony
Fredrick Chopin
composed Nocturne in F-Sharp
Modest Mussorgsky
composed Pictures at an Exhibition
Leonard Bernstein
composed West Side Story
Bela Bartok
composed music for strings, percussion and celist
Edgar Varese
composed poem electronique
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
composed romeo and juliet
Alban Berg
composer Wozzeck
Claude Debussy
composer called an impressionist
Aaron Copland
composer of appalachian
Igor Stravinsky
composer of the Rite of Spring
Charles Ives
composer of the Rock-strewn Hills join in the peoples outdoor meeting
Claude Debussy
composer of the clouds from three nocturnes
Robert Schumann
composer who started the magazine (new music journal)
romantic composers view of form
did not allow form to restrain spontaneous creativity, transformed forms
Franz Schubert
earliest and known as the greatest master of lied
Bela Bartok has many careers:
ethno musicologist and codirector of budapest academy of music
primitive fertility rites
events in the rite of spring involve:
Purpose of nationalist music was to:
evoke the sound of the composers native lands
expressionist style was characterized by:
extreme, exaggerated emotion, hysteria, insanity
true of Webern's five orchestral pieces
extremely short and atonal
statement about charles Ive's is false:
he wrote music in a romantic period style
conductor
important new member of romantic orchestra
Johamme Brahms
important romantic composer, violin concerto, Viennese classicism
Cultivated music is ___ and vernacular music is ___
imported western art music, of the people
two key features of jazz performance style
improvisation and high developed syncopation
George Gershwin known for:
including jazz in classical compositions
True of program music
it refers to some non musical idea such as poetic or literary work
Gustaw Mahler
late romantic composer response late with bittersweet nostalgia for innocence
Arnold Schoenberg
leading expressionist composer
other arts had the greatest influence on the early romantic composers
literature
Stravinsky, Debussy and Schoenberg
thee of the leading first-phase modernist composers
Happens to Radomes and Aida in Tomb Scene:
they will die in the tomb
Example of aleatoric music
throwing dice to determine in order of sections performed composition
Music Concrete
use of recorded sounds from life called:
Maurice Ravel's Piano concerto in G:
uses elements of american jazz
Chromaticism
using all twelve notes of the chromatic scale liberally
Miniatures written for:
voice and piano or piano alone
Music Drama
wagner call his new style of opera in the 1850
John Cage
watched an excerpt from an old tv show featuring:
Erlkonig
we read out loud as a class poem
Thematic unity occurs:
when a composer uses the same themes in all of more one movements
Tone Color
which musical element is clearest in clouds
