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44 Cards in this Set
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The Erlking
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Father and son on horse beign chased by the Erkle king if they are caught the boy dies.
-Visual scene of galloping horse is set up. -Four voices sung by 1 person -Written by Schubert |
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"Military" Polonaise
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Polish Dance
-Chopin |
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Symphonie Fantastique, 5th movements
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Story of composer who was on drugs and dreamt of being made fun of in his dreams.
-Idee Fixe -Berlioz -Quotation in middle, Gregorian chant ( bells ) symbolize grotesque |
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La Donna E Mobile
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Italian comical opera.
-Favored voice over instrument. -Music is not unique -Rigoletto |
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The Valkryie
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Wagner
-Reminds *Disney movies |
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
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Impressionistic Era.
-More provocative sound not just basic chords. -Claude Debussy -Bohemian ssound. -Changed the way harmony originally functioned. |
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The Rite of Spring
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-Example of what happens when rhythm is not what we expect it to be.
-Dissonance, the sound doesn't sound bad. -Ballet by Stravinsky |
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Pierrot Lunaire
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-Story of a sad clown obsessed with the moon.
-Shoenburg |
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West Side Story
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Musical by Leonard Bernstein
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Tonight
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-Various characters are telling what is on their minds.
-Music is playing at the same melody as the singer but at a different time. |
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Mambo
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-Mix of Spanish music and modern music.
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Tromba Lontana
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John Adams
-Wind instrument with triangle? |
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The Modau
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-Cellos representing the water
-Scene of a peasant wedding. "my country" -Bedrich Semtana |
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Franz Schubert
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Composer born in Vienna
-Perfected piano music -Leid -ErlKing |
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Frederic Chopin
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-Polish Composer and painist
-Expanded range of piano in technique and expression -organization in modern piano style "etudes" nocturnes -"Military" Polonaise |
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Hector Berlioz
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-Large scale program works
-symphony Fantastique |
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Italian composer
-Important contributions to Opera's development -National hero and senator |
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Richard Wagner
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Invented a new genre.
-German opera composer changes concept of opera. -Wanted everything to be equal. -Influenced by realism |
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Claude Debussy
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French composer, impressionist, Prix de Rome
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Igor Stravinsky
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Russian composer, most influential of 20th century.
Bold experimentor , used many different styles kept his original sound. -Shifting and irregular meters, sounds, sound blocks that succeed to transitions. |
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Austrian composer, teacher & music theorist.
-First to abandon tonal music completely and invent 12 tone system |
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Leonard Bernstein
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American composer and conductor
-often merged popular and classical styles |
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John Adams
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American post-minimalist composer, wanted to fuse minimalism with more lyrics and expressiveness
-Minimalism composer -Very repetitive |
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Lied
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Song for solo voice and piano in German
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Song cycle
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Group of songs unified in some matter
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Strophic vs. through -composed
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-Strophic- Repeats music for each verse
-Through: New music for each verse |
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Miniature
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Just piano, no singing.
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Tempo rubato
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Performers will slow tempo to create mood then speed up to make up for the time.
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Program music
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-Music that relies on literary or pictorial works.
-Music accompanying a narrative .Depicts a scene of nature or tells some sort of narrative or work. -If it has text then it changes to non program music. -Ex : Symphony Fantastique |
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Idee Fixe
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Fixes idea, represents a loved one.
-Reoccurring theme that is supposed to represent the beloved. |
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Bel canto
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Italian operatic style characterized by singing with great agility and purity, lyrical melodic lines, melody is the most important element
-Beautiful song Ex:Rigoleto |
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Music Drama
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Seperate arias, one continious opera.
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Total work of art
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Idea of Wagner wanted to elevate performance, make-up, lighting, dance and costume to be EXTRAORDINARY.
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Leitmotif
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Basic recurring theme representing a person, object, or idea.
-Little motives that represent nouns or pronouns -Ex Wagners Opera |
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The ring cycle
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Cycle of 4 operas by Wagner
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impressionalism
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-Movement that began with the arts
-Gave viewers their impressions, no lines. -Used blurs, lines and shapes. |
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Minimalism
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Uses a deliberately restricted set of notes and sounds, lots of repetition
-Reaction trend to all previous "isms". -Go back to basics, rhythms, chords, repeated elements of music. -Changes happen very slowly over time. |
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Neo-classicism
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Composers wanted to go back to enlightenment and classic era.
-Clear sense of form and line, logic. melody, rhythm . -Back to 18th Century |
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Second Viennese school
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Schoeberg, Berz, and Webern
-Worked in a style and music language in expressionism. -Speed singing . |
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Sprechstimme
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Half speaking, half singing
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The Romantic spirit
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Man was discovering his own person, one did not want to become part of something large like: a class or status under rule of a king.
-They had their own voice and wanted to express it. -Composers wanted to find their voice and wanted to express it. -Time of the supernatural ex: Erlking King -INstruments are being built better and technique is improving. |
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Opera in the 19th century
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-The voice is beautiful and thay is what we want to hear.
-Opera singers are "rockstars" |
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20th century musical trends
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All the isms. ()
Tonality composers scrambled to find their own voices. -People felt that a lot of things in life were unstable..music would also become unstable. -Isms were in -Free for all |
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Musical theater
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American cultivated.
Look at life more honestly than jokingly. -Mixture of musical theater and opera. ex: West Side Story |