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Impressionism:

Debussy composes

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“Prelude a lapres-midi d’um Faune.”

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Chapter 26
Impressionism:

Program Music during the Romanticism is _________

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so prevalent as we have seen in class.

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Impressionism:

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’s is a composition by ___________
It’s genre is?

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Claude Debussy.

symphonic poem.

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Impressionism:

It is also ___________ music and it is a __________Poem

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Program
Symphonic.
Just like “the Moldau” we examined on chapter 19/Romanticism.

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Impressionism:

The opera of Debussy is a reaction to _______________.

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German opera of Wagner (Chapter 25 - Romanticism/German Opera).

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Impressionism:

Debussy will never employ the concept of _____________

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“Letimotifs” that Wagner uses in all of his very long Operas.

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Impressionism:

What are the composers we examine as representative of Impressionism in music.

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Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy

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Impressionism:

They are both ____________ composers

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French

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Impressionism:

Impressionism comes from the relationship of visual arts example on page 248. The painting is not clearly defined.

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You have an impression of the water, boats, sunset.

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Impressionism:

Not a strict formal composition, but an ______________

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impression.

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Impressionism:

What is ever present in most works of the impressionism?

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Fluid, water is a reference/element.

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Chapter 27
Primitivism and Neoclacissism

The composer that encompasses both compositional styles - Primitivism and Neoclacissism.

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Igor Stravinsky

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

His composition the music for the Ballet entitled “Rite of Spring” is ___________, and is based on the characters of the ballet being _______ and the music relating to them being __________ as well.

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programmatic, primitive, primitive

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

Notice that there is nothing primitive about the composition techniques employed, the term is used as a _____________ to the music that reflects the topic of the ___________

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reference

ballet

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

The genre is _________.
This is another new genre of the romanticism being used during 20th century as well.

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Ballet music

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

The form is ____________.

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sectional, follows the ballet program, support the dancers!

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

Meter:

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Is irregular, changes often but it is not as the unmeasured tempo of the Gregorian chant. You will feel the beat.

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

Neoclassicism refer to the many composers of the late Romanticism and the 20th century who composed symphonies and other orchestral/instrumental works with their forms being _____________.

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the classical period forms
sonata movement form
symphony with four movement
concertos with three movements

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

Also composed in this Neo-classical style during the 20th century.

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Stravinsky

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Primitivism and Neoclacissism

Dumbarton Oaks Concerto

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This concerto has 3 movements. It is influenced by J.S. Bach’s concertos, but has elements of 20th century music such as off-beat accents and dissonances too aggressive to fit with the previous compositional periods.

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Chapter 28
Eastern European Nationalism

In the 20th century, ___________ exemplifies Nationalistic pride and research and national folk music and its application in compositions.

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Bela Bartok.

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Eastern European Nationalism

Bela Bartok

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Is Hungarian.
Best known for:
Piano miniatures; Mikrokosmos (six books of short pieces).
Duke Bluebeards’s Castle, Opera.

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Chapter 29
German Expressionism, Serialism

Arnold Schoenberg

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Developed the twelve tone row, also called serialism.
His students Alban Berg and Anton Webern are also serialism composers.

(Will explain in class how this is done!)

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German Expressionism, Serialism

Atonalism

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Is another term for serialism. It strives to not have any reference to the major-minor tonal system!!!

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German Expressionism, Serialism

Serialism

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Overall is the expression of tormented feelings through music. In visual arts, google the painting “The Scream”. You will feel the angst (a gloomy, often neurotic feeling of generalized anxiety and depression).

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Chapter 30 - review of American Music from colony times through Romanticism.

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The content of this chapter will not be in your final exam.

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Chapter 31
Jazz basics

The instrumentations of the front line:

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Trumpets/comets, clarinet, trombone (Dixieland or New Orleans jazz - 1920’s).

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Jazz basics

Rhythm section instruments:

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Piano, bass, guitar, banjo, drums.

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Jazz basics

The Swing Jazz band of the 1930’s

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The rhythm section provide accompaniment and solos. The previous New Orleans, had only accompaniment. Also, each instrument is multiplied by 3 or 4 (But for the piano, only one) in the Swing Jazz Band.

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Jazz basics

Jazz evolves to the _____________

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big band, reaching larger audience via radio.

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Jazz basics

Where is the center of action for Jazz 1935-50?

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New York

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Jazz basics

What are blues notes?

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Lowered notes, they give the music a relaxed effect.

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Jazz basics

The blues:

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Earliest - country blues - rural South. Then Classic blues.

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Jazz basics

Bessie Smith’s “Lost your Head Blues”.

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Is very personal, full of feeling not always sad, sung with relaxed rhythm and structure. The blues allow for improvisation by the singer and by the accompanist. Therefor, Bessie Smith is the composer and performer. She creates as she sings. Every performance will be different.

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Jazz basics

Genre:
Form:

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Genre: Classic blues
Form: 5 chorus of 12 bar blues.

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Jazz basics

Roots and influence

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African roots of the blues and sliding between notes can be heard in “Lost your Head Blues”. Also, “call and response” between the cornet and the singer reflect the way African singers sang. European influences are also heard in the structure of the music and text as well as the accompaniment in chords by the piano.

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Jazz basics

Bessie Smith’s “Lost your Head Blues” is an example of ________.

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Classic blues.

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Jazz basics

The twelve bar blues is

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the set chord progression, musicians use, therefore, there is a form!

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Jazz basics

Ragtime -

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Piano music, also band music. Syncopation within the rhythm gives origin to the name Ragtime.

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Jazz basics

Ragged rhythm=

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Syncopation.

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Jazz basics

Scat Singing

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Louis Armstrong style of singing with added non-sense syllables.

41
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Jazz basics

The spiritual

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Was not just entertaining. It included code words that allowed slaves to communicate beyond the slave master’s knowledge.

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Chapter 32

Be-Bop or just Bop

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Fast playing, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, small combos - opportunity for individual expression. The playing is of a higher caliber of quality, technique and expression than ever before (instrumental performance).

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Be-Bop or just Bop

KOKO is

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The only example provided by textbook of the genre, bebop jazz.

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Be-Bop or just Bop

The Bebop or Bop was

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A rebellion against the Big Band sound.

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Be-Bop or just Bop

Many influential (great influence, powerful) musicians organized _________ to allow for more expression rather than the former commercial minded style.

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small combos.

An example of this style is “KoKo” by Charlie Parker. The tempo of “Koko” is fast!

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Be-Bop or just Bop

Form:

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Mostly solos - bass player - one note per beat. Worth trying to pick the bass player sounds and following him!
Very intensive and energetic.

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Be-Bop or just Bop

Cool Jazz

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Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck - Birth of the Cool 1949, the modern jazz quartet.

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Chapter 33
American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz

George Gershwin composed _______

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Rhapsody in Blue, music influenced by jazz.

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American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz

During the same timeframe in France –

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Maurice Ravel was also influenced by jazz and wrote a jazzy improvisational second movement for his Piano Concerto in G.

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American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz

Genre of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

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Music for piano and orchestra as per book.

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American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz

In truth, as you know, rhapsody is _____________

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one of them which is modified many times and reappears many times.

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American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz

Form:

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Sectional

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American Classical Music Influenced by Early Jazz

William Gran Still - Afro-American Symphony

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First movement is in sonata form. Also influenced by early styles of jazz.

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Chapter 34
20th Century American Classical Styles

Charles Ives

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Experimentation with new musical ideas.

Have to listen to have a perspective on it.

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20th Century American Classical Styles

“The unanswered question” is

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Chamber orchestra,not structured, quiet,serene in feeling.

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20th Century American Classical Styles

Aaron Copeland

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“Fanfare for the Common Man” best known musical example.

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Chapter 35
Musical theater

Composer: Leonard Bernstein

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West Side Story

about Puerto-Rican immigrants in New York, gangs, Latin sounds.

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Musical theater

Composer Stephen Sondheim, composer

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Sweeney Todd, the musical, not the recent movie.

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Musical theater

Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer

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Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Evita

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Musical theater

Rodgers and Hammerstein, composers

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Early work:
Oklahoma!
Carousel
State Fair

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Chapter 36
Film music

cue sheets

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Told the musician when to start playing and when to stop playing to make sure that it matched the action of the film.

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Film music

Vitaphone

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An invention that allowed music recorded on phonograph records to be played simultaneously with the film.

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Film music

Max Steiner

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One of the first movie composers. He composed:
King Kong
Gone with the Wind - Tara’s theme
Casablanca (he did not right “As Time Goes By”

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Film music

Bernard Hermann, composer

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Citizen Kane 
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Trouble with Harry
The Wrong Man 
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
Marnie
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Film music

John Williams, composer

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Star Wars

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Film music

John Corigliano, classical composer of our time.

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Films he composed:
Altered States
Revolution
The Red Violin

67
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Film music

Philip Glass, classical composer of our time.

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Films
Koyaanisqatsi
Candyman
Farewell to the Flesh
Kundon
The Hours
Undertow
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Film music

James Horner

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One of the most highly respected composers to film music today. Ph.D
in music composition and theory from UCLA and gained experience in film scoring at the American Film Institute.
Films:
Wolfen
Aliens
Field of Dreams
Braveheart
Apollo 13
A beautiful Mind
Titanic
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Film music

Synthesizer music film scoring begins with ________

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“Chariots of Fire”.

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Film music

Giorgio Monroder, Italian-Swiss, besides composing for synthesizer based movie music, is also famous with

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“Eurodisco” through his synthesizer production of Donna Summer’s hit “Love to Love You”. (Disco dance music)

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Chapter 37-39

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Will not be a part of your final exam.

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Previous chapters
Middle Ages to Romanticism
They will be out of chronological order.

An Opera is divided in ______

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acts and scenes.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The structure of a single sonata movement is divided into three parts. _____ (introduction of the musical themes, usually two), ______ (treatments of those themes in various ways which transform them but still leave them recognizable), _____(repetition of the musical theme) and __________.

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exposition
development
recapitulation
coda

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The majority of symphonies follow the ___________ movement scheme

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Four

75
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Middle Ages to Romanticism

A piano trio would have the following instrumentation:

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Cello, piano and violin.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

A symphony in the classical period is divided into _______ as follows:
1. in _______ form and _______ tempo

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Four movement scheme/form

1. sonata fast

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

  1. ______________ in tempo
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slow

78
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Middle Ages to Romanticism

  1. _______ in form and medium tempo.
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sonata

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

  1. Sonata or _________ forms and in fast tempo
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italic

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

A String Quartet composed by Beethoven and/or Haydn would have the following instrumentation:

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Violin, cello, and piano.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

An opera composer of the German romantic period was _________

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Richard Wagner

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

“Handel’s Messiah” is an example of Baroque Oratorio. It is composed using the _____________ language for the vocal parts.

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English

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

“The Seasons” by Vivaldi is an example of __________ music composed during the Baroque Period.

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Program music (baroque descriptive)

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

A grouping of art songs composed by Franz Schubert during the Romanticism is called.

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Song cycles ( a grouping of art songs)
"Die Schone Mullerin (The Maid of the Mill)
"Die Winterreise (Winter Journey)
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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The composer of “German Requiem” is:

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Johannes Brahms

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

German Requiem

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It is an example of choral music composed during the Romanticism.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The classical period timeframe is, roughly from

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1750 - 1800

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

A “daCapo” Aria is written in the

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ABA form.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

Peter Tchaikovsky

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Russian composer, wrote incidental music to a ballet known as the “Romeo and Juliet” Concert Overture. This work is commonly performed by orchestras for concert purposes as well.

90
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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The Baroque Suite

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Is a group of dances, therefore multimovement. These dances originate during the Renaissance and could be called minuet, sarabande, courante, etc.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The Symphonic Fantastique is an of:

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Romantic Program music.

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

__________ is the Bohemian composer linked to the descriptive symphonic wok entitled “The Moldau”.

A

Bedrich Smetana

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The ______________ first movement is a great example of Beethoven’s creativity and use of free form.

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“Moonlight Sonata’s”

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Middle Ages to Romanticism

The Fifth Symphony by Beethoven is said to be an example of _________ because it employs one motive which is repeated through all four movements of this symphony creating unifying effect.

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cyclic form

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