Symphonic work, minor key, in 4/4 (or similar), very much in the classic tradition of symphonic music, influenced by romantic style of composition
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Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4
in E Minor, Op. 98 (1885)
4 movements
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ("Pathetique") (1893)
4 movements
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String quartet; elements of classic, but also modern styles (old and new) |
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Claude Debussy’s Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1893)
;4 movements;
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Heavy on the strings and flute; gives one the feeling of floating |
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Claude Debussy’s Prelude a l’Apres-midi d’un faune (1894)
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Orchestral; primal in feel; tick tock rhythm |
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Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps or The Rite of Spring (1913);
;2 parts divided into 6 movements each
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Atonal, vocal; features piano, cello… |
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Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
3 parts divided into 7 movements each
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Atonal, vocal, orchestral |
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Alban Berg’s Wozzeck (Act III) (1925)
;5 scenes, called ;inventions;;
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Atonal; rhythmically irregular; some vocal movements; flute, xylorimba, vibraphone, percussion, guitar (often very percussively) and viola
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Pierre Boulez’s Le Marteau sans maître (1954)
9 movements
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Jazzy in feel, features instrumental solos, primarily piano |
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George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
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Orchestral; often very major; features flute, strings primarily… |
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Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring (1944) |
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Some atonal moments; characterized by piano, clarinet, strings (viola)
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Olivier Messiaen’s Quatour pour la fin du temps (1941) |
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String quartet; at times atmospheric, at times abrupt and specific |
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George Crumb’s Black Angels (1970)
3 movements organized around the numbes 7 and 13
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