Gustav Klimt
symbolist painter, mahler, 4th symphony, symbloism
Kindertotenlieder
Songs on the Death of Children
Song cycle
Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
The song of the earth
Symphony
Mahler
Verismo
operatic parallel to realism in literature

operas present everyday ppl
Cavalleria Rusticana (rustic chivalry) – Pietro Mascagni

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The Clowns – by Ruggero Lioncavallo

Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana (rustic chivalry)
opera
Verismo
Sigmund Freud
Mahler, 4th symphony, symbolism
“Symphony of a Thousand”
2nd symphony, Mahler
Cavalleria rusticana
Pietro Mascagni
opera
verismo
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
– (the boy’s magic horn) melodies from 12 songs are used in 2-4 symp.
Ruggero Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci (the clowns)
verismo
I Pagliacci (the clowns)
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Verismo
Giacomo Puccini
Italian
opera =
La boheme
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
Turandot
Manon Lescaut

merged numbers opera with endless melody opera

Manon Lescaut
opera
puccini

3rd opera
catapulted him into fame

La boheme
opera
puccini

rapid movement of tonal center
conservative music for its era

Tosca
opera
puccini
Madama Butterfly
opera
puccini
Turandot
opera
puccini
Thomas Edison
Created a recording system for John Philip Sousa’s band.
Emile Berliner
Made a recording system that used a flat disc. Could be used to make any number of duplicates.
Emrico Caruso.
Enrico Caruso
Tenor. First to become a super star by recordings, made by Emile berliner.
Paul Verlaine
symbolist poet
claude debussy
nuages
symbolism
Stephane Mallarme
poet
Ravel
Histoires Naturelles
-3 symbolist poems
Paul Valery
symbolist poet
symbolism
Stefan George
symbolist poet
wrote the book of 15 poems “the hanging gardens”
symbolism and modernism
Schoenberg
Tell me on which path
song cycle 5th song
Claude Monet
Impressionist painter
French
Debussy
Nuages
Impressionism
Paul Cezanne
Impressionist painter
Debussy
Nuages
Impressionism
Pablo Picasso
Cubist painter
Stravinsky
cubism
Georges Braque
Cubism
Cubist painter
George M. Cohan
Vernacular Music
popular or folk music
American

-Little Johnny Jones
-Give My Regards to Broadway
-The Yankee Doodle Boy

Little Johnny Jones
Vernacular music
George M. Cohan
Franz Lehar
Austrian
operetta
the merry widow
vernacular music
The Merry Widow
Franz Lehar
operetta
Victor Herbert
American
vernacular music
operetta
babes in toyland
Naughty Marietta
Babes in Toyland
Victor Herbert
operetta
Naughty Marietta
Victor Herbert
operetta
Gustav Holst
English
Band Music
Suite No.1 E-flat Major
Suite No.2 Fmajor
Planets
Suite No. 2 for military band
Gustav Holst
Band music
Percy Grainger
Australian
Lincolnshire Posy
Irish Tune from County Derry
Band Music
Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger
Band music
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English
Folk/pop/vernacular music

-English Folk song suite
-Toccata Mariale

Toccata marziale
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Band music
James Reese Europe
Band leader
african-american bands
Will Marion Cook
Introduced new rhythms to broadway
African-American

Ragtime

-Clorindy
-The origin Cakewalk
-In Dahomey

Clorindy
Will Marion Cook
Ragtime
In Dahomey
Will Marion
Ragtime
Scott Joplin
African-American
pianist
son of a former slave

-Maple Leaf Rag
-Treemonisha

Treemonisha
Opera
Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin
Piano Rag
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
White Jazz Band
recordings of Jazz
Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz pianist

Ragtime
Recorded Scott Joplin
Maple Leaf Rag

Salome
Strauss
Opera
1st
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Salome based off his play Salome
Strauss
Opera
Late Romanticism
Elektra
Strauss
Opera
3rd
Der Rosenkavalier
Strauss
opera
4th
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Play write
Strauss
Electra
opera
Emmanuel Chabrier
Composer

Claude Debussy
Impressionism

(Espana)
Claude Debussy
French

-pelleas et melisande
-prelude to “the afternoon of a Faun”
-Nocturns
-Le mer
-Images
-Jeux

symbolism
focuses on the senses and on the present moment. Opening new possibilities of sensuality that had strong parallel in art and music

-ravel

impressionism
Term derived from art:
used for music that evokes moods and visual imagery through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre

Debussy

Pelleas et Melisande
Debussy
opera
Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
Debussy
Early Piano Music
Nocturnes
Debussy
orchestral piece
La mer
Debussy
orchestral piece
Images
Debussy
Images piece
Jeux
Debussy
ballet
L’isle joyeuse
The Joyous Isle
piano piece
Debussy
Estampes
Debussy
solo piano
Suite bergamasque
Debussy
piano suite
Pour le piano
Debussy
Keyboard suite
octatonic scale
A scale that alternates half and whole steps
Claude Debussy
Nuages Nocturnes
whole-tone scale
A scale consisting of only whole steps
Debussy
L’isle joyeuse
Maurice Maeterlinck
Librettist
Debussy
Pelleas et Melisande
Maurice Ravel
French

Fountains
Balario
miroir

Fountians

Miroirs
Ravel
piano piece
Gaspard de la nuit
Ravel
Piano Piece
Rapsodie espagnole
Ravel
Orchestra Suite
Daphnis et Chloe
Ravel
Ballet
Histoires naturelles
Ravel
french french
La valse
Ravel
orchestral poem
Tzigane
Ravel
(gypsy)
Rhapsody
Iberia
Issac Albeniz
piano pieces
Isaac Albeniz
Composer
spanish
Enrique Granados
Spanish
composer

-Goyescas

Goyescas
Enrique Granados
piano piece
Francisco Goya
artist spanish

Grandos

Manuel de Falla
opera la vida breve ((life is short)
Spanish
El amor brujo
Ballet
Manuel de Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat
Manuel de Falla
ballet
Master Pedro’s Puppet Show
Manuel de Falla
Based on Don Quixote
popular music
Harpsichord Concerto (de Falla)
Manuel de Falla
Concerto for harpsichord
(Wanda Landowska)
Polish
Harpsichordist
Manuel de Falla’s
wrote El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show)
Cecil Sharp
English
Folk songs writer
Norfolk Rhapsodies
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Folk Music
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams
english hymn
The Planets
Holst
orchestral suite
Leos Janacek
Czech
folk music composer

-jenufa (opera)
-Katya Kabanova
-The Cunning Little Vixen
-The Makropulos Affair
-From the House of the Dead
-Sinfonietta

Jenufa
Leos Janacek
opera
Katya Kabanova
Leos Janacek
opera
The Cunning Little Vixen
Leos Janacek
opera
The Makropulos Affair
Leos Janacek
opera
From the House of the Dead
Leos Janacek
opera
Sinfonietta
Leos Janacek
orchestra piece
Jean Sibelius
Finnish
Kalevala
text used in Sibelius’ orchestral works.
The Swan of Tuonela
Tone Poem.
Sibelius
Finlandia
Tone Poem
Sibelius
rotational form
repeatedly cycling through a series of thematic elements that are varied each time
Sibelius
teleological genesis
goal directed process of generating a theme from motivic fragments

-sometimes over an entire mvt. or symphony

Sergei Rachmaninov
Russian

-The Isle of the Dead
-The Bells
-Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini

The Isle of the Dead
symphonic poem
Sergei Rachmaninov
The Bells
symphony
Sergei Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Sergei Rachmaninov
piano concerto
Alexander Scriabin
Russian

-Poem of Ecstasy

Poem of Ecstasy
Alexander Scriabin
orchestral work
Prometheus
Alexander Scriabin
orchestral work
Vers la flamme
Alexander Scriabin
1 mvt. tone poem for piano
post-tonal
embraces all ways composers found to find pitch

atonality to neotonality
Alexander Scriabin

avant-garde
a mvt. that directly challenges french tradition of music
Erik Satie
Erik Satie
avant-garde
french

-Gymnopedies
-Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear
-Embryon desseches
-Parade
-Relache
-Socrate

Gymnopedies
Erik Satie
piano piece
Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear
Erik Satie
piano piece
Embryon desseches
Erik Satie
piano piece
Parade
Erik Satie
ballet
Relache
Erik Satie
ballet with film
Socrate
Erik Satie
symphonic drama
for soloist and chamber orchestra
text plato
Furniture Music
Played during intermissions of play as background music
Erik Satie
Luigi Russolo
Futurist painter
Italian

Erik Satie

The Art of Noises
Luigi Russolo

New kind of music based on noise

Divided noises in 6 families

developed new instruments

futurism
new noises in music

Luigi russolo

Richard Strauss
German
tone poem
Symphonic poem, or a similar work for a medium other than orchestra (most of strauss’s tone poems written before 1900
Don Juan
Strauss
Tone Poem
Also sprach Zarathustra
a musical commentary on Nietzsche’s long prose-poem, which proclaimed that the Christian ethnic should be replaced by the ideal of a superman who is above good and evil.

Strauss

Don Quixote
Strauss
Tone Poem
Miguel de Cervantes
wrote the picaresque novel that Don Quixote was based on

Strauss

Death and Transfiguration
(Tod und Verklarung) was inspired by Strauss’s recovery from a life threatening illness
Ein Heldenleben (a hero’s life)
openly auto-biographical, tone poem, glorifies early works Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel
tone poem, strauss
Gustav Mahler
German, Symphonies = 9 symphonies, and 10th unfinished symphony, song cycle (lieder eins fahrenden gesellen = Songs of a wayfarer)
Songs of a Wayfarer
song cycle , Mahler, appears in the first and third movement of his 1st symp.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(the boy’s magic horn) melodies from 12 songs are used in 2-4 symp. Mahler
“Symphony of a Thousand”
2nd symphony, Mahler
Sigmund Freud
Mahler, 4th symphony, symbolism
Till Eulenspiegel
tone poem, strauss
Gustav Mahler
German, Symphonies = 9 symphonies, and 10th unfinished symphony, song cycle (lieder eins fahrenden gesellen = Songs of a wayfarer)
Songs of a Wayfarer
song cycle , Mahler, appears in the first and third movement of his 1st symp.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(the boy’s magic horn) melodies from 12 songs are used in 2-4 symp. Mahler
“Symphony of a Thousand”
2nd symphony, Mahler
Sigmund Freud
Mahler, 4th symphony, symbolism
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian
Verklarte Nacht (transfigured night)
Gurrelieder (Songs of the Gurre)
Verklarte Nacht
Arnold Schoenberg
Tone Poem
Gurrelieder
Arnold Schoenberg
Cantata
developing variation
Arnold Schoenberg
SQ No.1 in d minor opus 7
The process of deriving new themes initial idea, and creating variations throughout the piece
Erwartung
Arnold Schoenberg
monodrama (one character opera)
Expressionism
Moses und Aron
Arnold Schoenberg
opera
Pierrot lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg
song cycle
(21 songs)
Five Orchestral Pieces
Arnold Schoenberg
orchestral pieces
atonality
Arnold Schoenberg
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
avoids establishing a tonal center
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
Arnold Schoenberg
three piano pieces
pitch-class set
Arnold Schoenberg
The Book of the Hanging Gardens
a collection of pitch classes that preserves its identity when transposed,inverted or recorded. And used melodically or harmonically
chromatic saturation
The appearance of all twelve pitch classes within a segment of music
Arnold Schoenberg
expressionism
Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung
uses exaggerated, angler melodies, unrelenting dissonance to convey tortured emotions of the protag.
Albert Giraud
Symbolist poet
Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire
Sprechstimme
Speaking voice approximating the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech while following the notated rhythm exactly
Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire
Oskar Kokoschka
expressionist painter
Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung
twelve-tone method
Arnold Schoenberg
method of composing with 12 tones that are only related to each other
row/series
The bases of the 12-tone method
an ordering of all 12 pitch classes that is used to generate the musical content
Arnold Schoenberg
piano suite op.25
prime
original form of a row
Arnold Schoenberg
piano suite op.25
inversion
reveresing the upward or downwar direcctoin of each interval while maintaining its size or the new the new melody or row form that results
retrograde
backwards statement of a previously heard melody, passage or 12-tone row
Arnold Schoenberg
retrograde inversion
Arnold Schoenberg
the upside-down and backwards statement of a melody or 12-tone row
tetrachords
a scale of 4 notes spanning a perfect 4th
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Suite op.25
hexachords
a set of 6 pitches
in 12-tone theory
: the 1st 6 or last 5 in a row
Arnold Schoenberg
Piano Suite op.25
Alban Berg
Austrian
Arnold Schoenberg’s student
Wozzeck
Wozzeck
Alban Berg
expressionist opera
Georg Buchner
librettist
Alban Berg
expressionist opera
Wozzeck
Lyric Suite
Alban Berg
String Quartet
Lulu
Alban Berg
Opera
(not completed because he died)
Anton Webern
Austrian
Comp. under Schoenberg
Musicologist
Six Bagatelles for string quartet, op. 9
Symphony, op. 21
Six Bagatelles for string quartet, op. 9
Anton Webern
string quartet
Symphony, op. 21
Anton Webern
symphony
12-tone
Klangfarbenmelodie
changes of tone are perceived as parallel to changing pitches in a melody
Symphony, op. 21
1st mvt.
Anton Webern
Igor Stravinsky
Russian
fire bird
Sergei Diaghilev
Russian
Stravinsky
Impresario for Ballet Russe (Russian ballet director)
Ballets Russes
Russian Ballet
-based in france
Stravinsky
Diaghilev
Firebird
Stravinsky
Ballet
Petrushka
Stravinsky
Ballet
The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Ballet
L’histoire du soldat*
(the soldier’s tale)
Stravinsky
Small orchestra Stage Work
Octet for winds*
Stravinsky
neoclassical works
Oedipus rex
Stravinsky
Opera-oratorio
Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky
Symphony
Symphony in C
Stravinsky
Symphony
Symphony in Three Movements
Stravinsky
Symphony
Agon
ballet
Stravinsky
Requiem Canticles*
Stravinsky
Requiem Mass
George Balanchine
Ballet Choreographer
Stravinsky
Later founded New York Ballet
Ebony Concerto*
Stravinsky
American Style
concerto
Robert Craft
Stravinsky’s assistant
12-tone method
neoclassicism
Trend in music from the 1910s to the 1950s in which compsosers vrevived, imitated or evoked the styles, genres and forms of pre-romantic music, especially those of the eighteenth century
Stravinsky
Nun Will Die Sonn
kindertotenlieder

song
solo voice
oboe solo
strophic -versus the same
horn solo

Symphony No.4
sigmund freud –> dream
jingle bells
-ballet motive
-concerted motives
Don Quixote
Salome
Der Rosen Kavalier
La Boheme
soprano
they call meme
upward voice throws
violin sings with voice
Madame Butterfly
-pentatonic
-soprano/baritone
-japenese folk motive
-micato
-sakura
Military Suite No. 1
Holst
Band Music
Mvt. 1
melodic brass
Sectional
Mvt. 2
pirate music
Mvt. 3
bass clarinet
bum bum
Norfolk Rhapsody
RV Williams
Disney
T.S. Eliot
Modernist poet ” the waste land”
James Joyce
novelist “Ulysses” strem-of-consciousness
Marcel Proust
novelist “Remembrance of Things Past”
Bertolt Brecht
play write political (kurt weill)
Virginia Woolf
feminist novelist
Marcel Duchamp
Wrote the “fountain”
Salvador Dali
surrealist painter; explored dream-like world
Rene Magritte
surrealist painter ; explored dream-like world
Walter Gropius
Architect; explored functionality, less decorated
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect; explored functionality, less decorated
John Steinbeck
novelist “Grapes of Wrath”
George Grosz
Artist German: simple,direct,modern style
Diego Rivera
artist, Mexico: simple,direct,modern style
Thomas Hart Benton
American Artist: simple,direct,modern style
Bing Crosby
Singer, intimate singing style furthered by recording adances
Frank Sinatra
Singer, intimate singing style furthered by recording adances
Benny Goodman
Band leader, hosted radio shows w/ band
Sigmund Romberg
composer, american? “The student Prince”
The student Prince
opperetta, Sigmund Romberg
Jerome Kern
show boat american?
Show Boat
Opera, Kern
Edna Ferber
Irving Berlin
cheif ragtime composer “Alexander’s Ragtime band”
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Song, Berlin