Exam 2 Flashcards
(48 cards)
Paul Verlaine
A poet who illustrated a striving tone in French literature
Fete galante
A popular occasion among the aristocracy of the 18th c. Shown in Verlaine’s collection
Impressionism
A realistic style of French painting of the late 19th c. using everyday subjects and emphasizing the effects of sunlight upon colors.
Claude Monet
An impressionist painter for France in the lat 19th c.
Whole-Tone Scale
Use in impressionist music
Octatonic Scale
Used in impressionist music
Pentatonic Scale
Used in impressionist music
Silver Age
Common designation for an artistic period in Russia during the time of Tsar Nicholas II
Realism
Penetrating psychological and social novels of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.
Alexander Siloti
Conductor and piano virtuoso- founded concerts that served a mixed of Russian and European figures
Evenings of Contemporary Music
Young art loving amateurs- Stravinsky and Pokofiev being leaders
Diaghilev
Remarkable impresario, began in law then switched
Miriskusstav
World of art - Diaghilev wrote with his fellow writers expressed sympathy with modern European developments.
Triple Entente
Russian, French, and British in 1907
The Ballet Russes
Russian Ballet Short Music from different sources Scores with choreographies The history was with the ballet
Mikhail Fokine
Choreographer for Russian ballet
Valsav Nijinsky
Choreographer for the rite of spring
Polychord
The combination arising by a juxtaposition of familiar but unrelated harmonies
Bolshevik and Uladmir Lenin
Promised to end Russian War
Russian Revolution
Musical culture was profound.
Vasili Kandinsky
Russian born artist devoted his works to Schoenberg
Emancipation of dissonance
Dissonant chords could appear frequently
Atonal
Without a tonal center
Tone-Color Melody
A succession of different timbres could take on a structural role in a composition.
