Mary Queen of Scots
Thea Musgrave
Blue Beards Castle
Bartok
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Heitor Lobus
Wozzeck
Alban Berg
Zeitmasse
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Krsysztof Penderecki
Carmina Burana
Carl Orff
Le Marteau sans maitre
Pierre Boulez
Glassworks
Phillip Glass
A London Symphony
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
Stepping Stones
Joan Tower
Symphony, Op. 21
Webern
Three Places in New England
William Schuman
Dances of Galanta
Zolton Kodoly
The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky
Ionisation
Edgar Varese
Ancient Voices of Children
George Crumb
Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
Notjustmoreidlechatter
Paul Lansky
City Life
Steve Reich
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
George Washington Bridge
William Schuman
The Ghosts of Versailles
John Corgliano
Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg
The Roots of the Moment
Pauline Oliveros
Peter and the Wolf
Sergei Prokofiev
Banshee
Henry Cowell
Mathis der Maler
Paul Hindemith
Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Rachmominoff
The Age of Gold Ballet
Dmitri Shostakovich
La voix Humaine
Francis Poulens
West Side Story
Leonard Berstein
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Gian Carlo Movotti
Quartet for the End of Time
Oliver Messiaen
Primitivism
using Non-Western (other countries) music and style
Neo-Classicism
went back to classical principals (refers to the baroque period, mainly Bach and Handel)
New Nationalism
Went deeper than romantic nationalist, deeper research into folklore and music
Expressionism
deeper emotions (distorted and irrational), music tended to be atonal and serial.
Neo-Romanticism
back towards realism and tonality, back to romantic style
Quartal harmony
Harmonic system with chords built in fourths
Dodecaphonic
The free use of all 12 tones around a tonal center
Polyrhythmic
Use of 2 or more rhythmic or metrical patterns at once
Polychord
A vertical combination of notes having more than one tonal center
Pandiatonicism
Free use of all 7 notes of the diatonic scale
Polymetric
Changing meters
Secundal harmony
Harmonic system with chords built in seconds
Polytonal
Playing in more than one key at a time
Was the 20th century orchestra larger or smaller than that of the Romantic era?
Smaller
One of Stravinsky’s first teachers was one of the “Great Russian Five”. Which one of the five did he study
with?
Rimsky-Korsakov
One of Prokofiev’s most popular compositions is a work used to help introduce young people to the
symphony orchestra. What is the name of the piece?
Peter and Wolf
Prokofiev has provided us with the best analysis of the elements of his style. What are these 5 elements?
Ostinato, neo-classic, scherzo grotesquerier, lyricism, harsh innovation to express powerful emotion.
In the Classical Symphony , Prokofiev used the music of what composer as a model
Stravinsky
Bela Bartok was born in
Hungary
Bartok was a collection of 153 piano works which he began as a teaching method for his son. The name of
this collection is
Mikrokosmos
Ives is known as a “quotation” composer. What does that mean?
He quotes other composers in his pieces
Bartok is best known to the public by the 3 major works of his last period. Name the works:
Music for strings, perc., and celesta, concerto for orch, 3rd piano concerto
Who was the composer responsible for developing the twelve-tone method?
Arnold Schoenberg
Sprechstimme
Melody is spoken at approximate pitches
An original 12 tone row may be manipulated in three different ways:
Inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion
Who were the 2 disciples of Schonberg who followed his example by writing serial music?
Alban Berg, Anton Webern
What does the term “klangfarbenmelodie” mean
no instrument can play more than 2 notes of the melody
A group of six French composers
les six
Name the three most well known composers of les six
Francis Poulens, Arther Honegger, Darius Milhaud
Gebrauchsmusik
Utility Music, music for the sake of music
Composer of Gebrauchsmusik
Paul Hindimeth
What American composer incorporated folklore elements (cowboy songs, Mexican rhythms, New
England and Quaker Hymns) in his music
Aaron Copland
Know as “the king of ragtime
Scott Joplin
What does the term “aleatoric” music mean?
Chance music, roll of the dice
Europeans labeled music in new forms and idioms (a new means of expression) with a term that
translates to “the new garde”. What is the term?
Avant Garde
What composer steadfastly maintained that art is the ideal expression of religious faith?
Oliver Messiaen
Music made up of natural sounds and disc recordings that were altered by changing the playback
speed was labeled
Musique concrete
repetition of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with
very little variation.
Minimalistic
In many Eastern African cultures, music was based on what scale?
pentatonic
The tunes played by Eastern African drum ensembles come mostly from where
Uganda
Much of the African music is transmitted through an oral tradition. Explain what this means.
Music is passed down through people rather than in writing
The music of India is based on melodic formulas called
Ragas
The music of India is based on rhythmic formulas called
Talas
The complexity of African music is quite remarkable, often combining several rhythms at the same time,
creating a kind of rhythmic
Polyrhythms
Stravinsky
Symphony of Songs
Stravinsky
Symphony in C
Stravinsky
Rake’s Progress
Stravinsky
Firebird
Stravinsky
Petrushka
Stravinsky
Rite of Spring
Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf
Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kiji
Prokofiev
The Classical Symphony
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev
The Love of Three Oranges
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Shostakovich
The Age of Gold (ballet)
Rachmoninoff
3 symphonies,4 piano concertos, many piano solos
Britten
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Britten
War Requiem
Britten
Peter Grimes
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Ralph Vaughn Williams
A London Symphony
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Bartok
Mikrokosmos
Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok
Blue Beard’s Castle
Kodoly
Dances of Galanta
Kodoly
Hary Janos
Orff
Carmina Burana
Hindemith
Mathis der Maler
Hindemith
Hin und Kuruck (as a palindrome)
Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis
Hindemith
Symphony in Bb for concert band
Berg
Wozzeck
Berg
Lulu
Berg
Violin Concerto
Poulens
La viox humaine
Poulens
Dialogues des Carmelites
Poulens
La Memelles de Tiresias
Honegger
Pacific 231
Honegger
La Roi David
Milhaud
La Creation du Monde
Copland
Appalachian Spring
Copland
Rodeo
Copland
El Salon Mexico
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Gershwin
An American in Paris
Gershwin
Porgy and Bess
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Barber
Vanessa
Barber
School for Scandal
Shuman
New England Tryptich
Schuman
George Washington Bridge
Movotti
Medium
Movotti
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Movotti
The Consul
Ives
Concord Symphony
Ives
Wrote 4 symphonies.
Villa-Lobos
Bachianes Brasilerias #5
Bernstein
West Side Story
Bernstein
Jeremiah Symphony
Bernstein
On The Town
Bernstein
Candide
Corigliano
The Naked Carmen
Corigliano
The Ghost of Versailles
Corigliano
AIDS Symphony
Floyd
Susannah
Floyd
Of Mice and Men
Floyd
Cold Sassy Tree
Stockhausen
Zeitmasse
Boulez
Le Marteau sans Maitre
Penderecki
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Varese
Ionization
Crumb
The Ancient Voices of Children
Cowell
The Tides of Manaunaun
Cowell
Lilt of the Reel
Lansky
Notjustmoreidlechatter
Lansky
Six Fantasies on a Poem By Thomas Campion
Glass
Glassworks
Glass
Einstein On The Beach
Reich
Drumming
Reich
City Life
Musgrave
Mary, Queen of Scots
Tower
Stepping Stones
Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time
Messiaen
Hymn to the Holy Sacrament