Name the Art-Song Composers |
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Collection of songs w/ related text (same poet) to be performed together |
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“Die Schone Mullerin” “Winterreise” “Schwanengesang” |
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“Dichterliebe” “Liederkreis” |
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Role of Piano during this period? |
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Accompaniment and set tone of text |
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What was Romanticism about? |
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Self Expression, fusion of the arts |
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Name the Romantic Piano Composers |
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What was Liszt known for? |
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Experimenting with Harmony Tone Poems |
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What was Berlioz known for? |
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id’ee fixe His work Symphonie Fantastique |
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What were the types of Operas? |
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Always historical Largest Budget Serious and Huge |
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Small Simple Music Comical Plots |
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Large Orchestra Large Cost Focus on Melody and Realism |
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What is Wagner known for? |
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leit motif (person, thing or idea associated with a short motive) |
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Programatic work for orchestra based on another work (one movement) |
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What is Strauss known for? |
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Tone Poems “Sprach Zarathrusta” (most famous tone poem) |
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“Ring Cycle” “Paracefel” “Tristan and Isolde” |
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What was Brahms known for? |
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Classical Forms hemiola (double/triple meter on top of one another) |
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What was Mahler known for? |
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Writing 9 huge Symphonies |
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What was Debussy known for? |
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Impressionism “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” “LaMer” “Nocturnes” |
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French Impressionism vs German Impressionism |
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light, sweet – dark, heavy no emotions – emotions delicate refined – rougher |
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What was Stravinsky known for? |
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ositnato (repeating, underlying part) “Rite of Spring” (cause riot) “Firebird” polyrythm polytonality |
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What was Schoenberg known for? |
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spreechstimme (glide pitch around while singing) 12 tone method atonal music |
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What was Webern known for? |
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Mega short pieces tone-color melody (take one melody and give a note to each instrument) |
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What is Copland known for? |
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Writing music for the public “Fanfare for the Common Man” |
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What was Messiaen known for? |
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“Quartet for the End of Time” |
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What was Shostakovich known for? |
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What was Gershwin known for? |
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classical with jazz/pop “Porgy and Bess” “Rhapsody in Blue” |
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What was Britten known for? |
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“Perter Grimes” “Billy Bud” “Death in Venice” “Turn of the Screw” |
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use of restricted set of note/chords |
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What is John Cage known for? |
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Name the Minimalism Composers |
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What was Penercki known for? |
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graphic notation “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” |
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focus on timbre (color of instrument) |
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Name the Spectralism Composers |
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What is Arvo Part known for? |
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tintinnabuli (2 lines: 1 moves free, other is members of a chord) |
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