Exam 4 Flashcards
(72 cards)
1
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describe forms
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dominant form = SONATA ALLERGO
2
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what is 12 bar blues?
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AAB - 12 bar blues
3
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what is AAAA?
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strophic form
4
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what is AAB?
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12 bar blues
5
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what is AABA?
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32 bar song form
6
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what are theme and variations?
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AA’A”A”’
7
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describe 32 bar song form
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american pop song form, ballad form AABA
8
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what is verse/chorus?
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ABABCB
- 8 verses
- 8 bars
- C = BRIDGE
9
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what is ABABCB?
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verse/chorus
10
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describe classical symphonic pattern
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- fast
- slow
- dance
- fast
SONATA FORM
11
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describe exposition
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- first theme in TONIC KEY
- bridge w modulation to new key
- second theme in NEW KEY
- closing section
12
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describe development
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- new TREATMENT of themes, modulations to different KEYS
13
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describe recapitulation
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RECAP
- first theme in TONIC KEY
- bridge
- second theme in TONIC KEY
- closing section
14
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describe coda
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- optional (post script from composer)
15
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describe romantic
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- emphasis on SELF EXPRESSION, individuality, and nature
- political
16
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describe self expression
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- individual style
- expressive subject material
- expansive and colorful harmony
17
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define program music
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the surrounding ENVIRONMENT is referenced
18
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define absolute music
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REFERENCES itself.
19
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describe impressionism 1874
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- musical style that EMPHASIZES fluidity, impermanence, and CHANGE
- unstable harmony
- started in paris art salons
20
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what happened in the art salons of paris?
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it’s where impression originated
21
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where did impressionism originate?
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art salons of paris
22
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what describes fluidity, impermanence, and change?
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impressionism
23
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describe modernism
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- philosophical & cultural movement through the 19th & 20th centuries
- enormous and widespread
- REJECTED ENLIGHTENMENT thinking & religious belief; rejection of tradition
- self conscious; SELF REFERENTIAL
24
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what is atonal?
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music that LACKS a tonal center
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what is absolute music?
music that references itself
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describe 12 tone system
- a system used form of atonality which gives EQUAL IMPORTANCE to each of the 12TWELVE chromatic tone
- 12 tone matrix
27
what form becomes prominent during the classical period?
sonata allergo!!!!
28
what would be the TYPICAL classical symphony pattern?
fast, slow, dance, fast
29
what is a coda?
an optional closing section
30
AA’ A “ A”’ is?
theme and variation form
31
what is the beginning section of the sonata-allegro form called?
EXPOSITION
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in sonata allergy form, this section transitions theme 1 to theme 2 and modulates to a new key
BRIDGE
33
AABA form called ballad form of american pop song form is also called?
32 bar song form
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this section in SONATA ALLERGO FORM features new treatments of themes and modulations to different keys and is the HEIGHT of the tension…
development!!
35
in sonata allergo form, the recap features?
- theme 2 in the TONIC KEY (I)
36
what art movement emphasized self expression, individual style and nature? associated w political stuff.
ROMANTICISM
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what is instrumental music associated with a STORY, poem, idea, or scene?
PROGRAM MUSIC!!
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what is strophic form?
AAAA
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what music style emphasizes FLUIDITY, impermanence, and change?
impressionism!!
40
what is 12 bar blues?
AAB
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what is described as rejectment of tradition?
modernism movement
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absolute music ?
REFERENCES itself
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describe post modernism
death of modernism (3pm march 16, 1972)
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post modernism was a ______ of ?
CRITIQUE OF MODERNISM
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who was john cage?
- american composer & music theorist
- leading figure in MODERN & POST MODERN thinking, experimentation, and post war avant-garde
- DEVELOPED AMERICAN MODERN DANCE w partner/choreographer Merce Cunningham
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who was Merce Cunningham?
helped to develop AMERICAN MODERN DANCE with THE JOHN CAGE
47
describe 4’33 (performance)
live performance that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds long. performer(s) sit on stage (with or without instruments) in complete silence.
the music is the sounds FILLING THE EMPTY SPACE (think rain pattering outside a building)
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what is prepared piano?
piano that has SOUND ALTERING OBJECTS placed on the strings (bolts, screws, nuts, placed inside)
49
define aleatoric
music composed by chance
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describe I Ching
- book of changes
- chinese DIVINATION text
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describe minimalism
- music characterized by STEADY PULSE, clear tonality, and INSISTENT repetition of short. melodic patterns
- often features PHRASES
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what is phrasing?
TWO of the same patterns are played at STEADY but NOT identical tempi.
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who was Steve Reich?
- developed MINIMALISM w other people who worked or performed w john cage
- DEVELOPED PHRASING
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who developed phrasing?
Steve Reich
55
what is described as a quicker beat/pattern slowly speeding up with a previously identical beat playing simultaneously?
phasing (PHASER SPEEDS UP)
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who created the song “the snow is dancing?”
Debussy
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who created “A survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46”?
arnold SCHOENBERG
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who created Rebonds A?
Iannis Xenakis
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who created the Tehillim & The Desert Music?
STEVE REICH/ alarm will sound
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who created “First Construction (in metal)”
john cage
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who created EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK
mozart!!!!
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who created “string quartet No. 14, op. 131”?
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
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who created “sonatas n. 1,2,3,4,5 for PREPARED PIANO”?
JOHN CAGE
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who’s music had a weird metallic sound to it?
john cage
65
what song sounded like snow trickling down with a PIANO being played ?
THE SNOW IS DANCING - DEBUSSY
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what song has trumpets and is scary and ominous with drums; has orchestra and bouncing bows off strings. dialogue is played. what song is this?
A SURVIVOR FROM WARSAW OP46 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
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what song is defined with a solo drummist whose beat slowly builds onto itself?
REBONDS A - IANNIS XENAKIS
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which song is characterized with female voices repeating in cycles with bongos and orchestra occasionally chiming in? repeated and overlapping cycles; hallelujah words - what song?
TEHILLIM & THE DESERT MUSIC - STEEEEVE REICH/alarm will sound
69
what song starts with a METALLIC BAM and is defined with metallic sounds like xylophones, bells, chimes, metal sheets; ANXIETY INDUCING. what song?
first construction (IN METAL) - JOHN CAGE
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what song sounds like ethan klein and is well known and upbeat? sounds like tea time and bees.
EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK - MOZZARTTT!!
71
what song sounds sad and soft w lots of vibrato?
string QUARTET no. 14, op. 131 - LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN!!
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what song sounds discombobulated with metallic piano sounds? music feels tense w a piano SOLOIST
sonatas n. 1,2,3,4,5 for PREPARED PIANO - JOHN CAGE!!
