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1
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Johannes Brahams dates and origin

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1833-1897

Germany

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Brahams song
1833-1897
German

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1833-1897

Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2

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Braham’s Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2 form

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-Composite sectional ternary (ABA)

A-f#-A

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Braham’s Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2 Traditional/Classical Aspects

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-Motivic Development (melodic inversion)
-Hemiola (at cadences)
-Invertible counterpoint
4-note canon (F# section)

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Braham’s Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2

Innovative/Romantic aspects

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  • Metric displacement

- Avoidance of root position tonic triad

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Braham’s Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2

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The excerpt at B begins in a relative minor (f#) and modulates back to the original tonic using a retransition

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Frédéric Chopin dates and origin

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1810-1849

Poland

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Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849 info

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Composed almost exclusively for the piano, bringing the instrument to new heights of melodic expressiveness

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Chopin’s Ballad in G minor, Op. 23

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No clear-cut form, but a musical narrative; affirms Chopin’s affinity for poetry

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Chopin’s Ballad in G minor, Op. 23

Opening Harmony

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N6- Ab major chord

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Chopin’s Ballad in G minor, Op. 23 measures (68-77)

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-Functional harmony in Eb major with several dominant 13th chords and circle of fifths progression

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Chopin’s Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 68, No. 4

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Sectional ternary (A-BA’)

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Chopin’s Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 68, No. 4

Part 1

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chromatic linear harmony that becomes functional as the cadence approaches

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Chopin’s Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 68, No. 4

Part 2

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contains circle of fifths progression with dominant 7th chords

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Franz Liszt dates and origin

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1811-1886 (Hungarian)

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Franz Liszt bio

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1811-1886 (Hungarian)

Piano virtuoso and champion of new music. Helped the career of Richard Wagner.

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Liszt song

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Nuages Gris

  • Based on a gypsy scale
  • Parallel augmented triads abate a tonal center or any sense
18
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Richard Wagner bio and origin

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1813-1883 (German)

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Richard Wagner bio

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1813-1883

The most influential figure in German Romanticism, leading the way to eventual demise of tonality.

20
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Richard Wagner

Gesamtkunstwerk

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-means “total art work”

most associated with him, and his later operas called music dramas

21
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Richard Wagner

song

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Tristan and Isolde, Prelude

  • tristan chord fø7
  • a half diminished 7th chord that is a result of a combination of melodic lines
  • measures 1-17
22
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Modest Mussorgsky

dates and origin

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1839-1881

Russian

23
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Modest Mussorgsky

bio

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1839-1881
Self-taught composer who endeavored to incorporate decidedly Russian elements into his music
-Unique sound of music had a significant influence on the French composers Debussy and Ravel

24
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Richard Wagner

composing song infos

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-used leitmotifs, greatly expanded orchestra, and radical expansion of major-minor tonal system

25
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Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov, Coronation Scene Opening

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Only uses AbMm 6/5 and DMm 4/2
Sonority in measures 1 and 2 of the excerpt is a tritone (C-F#)
-Share a common tone

26
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Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade

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  • Opening uses penatonic scale
  • non traditional use of diatonic harmony
  • Homorhythmic/homophonic texture
27
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Mussorgsky

composing facts

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uses:

  • coloristic harmony
  • tends to favor tritone relationships
  • sought to emulate Russian speech inflections
28
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Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
No. 5 Dance of Unhatched Chickens

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  • Continuous ternary form

- non-functional/ coloristic harmony

29
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Gabriel Fauré

dates and origin

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1845-1924

French

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Gabriel Fauré

bio info

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The most innovative 19th century composer before Debussy

  • composed over 100 melodies
  • influential in fostering the rise of French music in the 2nd half of the 19th cenury
31
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Gabriel Fauré
Two Songs Op. 46
1. Les Presents

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  • modified strophic
  • starts with mixolydian scale form
  • the harmony near the beginning is coloristic with unresolved 7ths and subtle use of modality
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Gabriel Fauré
Two Songs Op. 46
2. Clair de Lune

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  • Through composed
  • measures 1-2 subtle use of Dorian mode
  • “Aucal..”(before she says “Clair de Lune”) measures 38-42 subtle use of Lydian mode
33
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Gabriel Fauré

styles he uses

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  • Coloristic harmony, with functional and unresolved 7ths
  • Subtle use of modality
  • Atypical melodic phrases
34
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Hugo Wolf

dates and origin

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1860-1903
Austrian
-poetry is of equal importance of music

35
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Hugo Wolf

-Mörike-Lieder, No. 6 “Er ist’s”

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-harmony in the beginning is chromatic harmony with a modulation to a tritone away from o.g. key
-hormonic and melodic material at end of excerpt
is pentatonic scale with a Gadd6 chord

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Hugo Wolf

composing styles

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  • poetry is on equal footing with the music
  • piano is not mere accompaniment, but provides mood and atmosphere
  • functional and coloristic harmony are interspersed freely
37
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-Mörike-Lieder, No. 6 “Er ist’s” (conti.)

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  • Distant modulation from G to D# major

- G major doesnt come again until the last syllable of the poem

38
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Richard Strauss bio and origin

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1864-1949

German

39
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Richard Strauss

info

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1864-1949
Considered the most important German composer to emerge after Wagner
-Extreme chromaticism evident warrants the designation “Post Romanticism”

40
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Richard Strauss

-Four Songs, Op. 27, No. 1 “Ruhe, meine Seele”

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Measures 1-2: CMm6/5 -f#m4/3 coloristic harmony

Measures 4-13: a sequence of major-minor 7th chords in a circle-of-fifths

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