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