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Plato’s Philosophy of music held that it

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Could shape thought, action, perception, and ultimately character

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The most important venue for music in Ancient Greece was

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The theater

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Hildegard von Bingen was a prolific composer of

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Plainchant

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The Comtessa or Beatriz de Dia was a

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Troubadour

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The earliest surviving treatise containing examples of polyphony is

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Musica enchriadis

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The Notre Dame School refers to organum by

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Leonin, Perotin, and their immediate followers

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The genre of the motet was created by

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Adding new words to a clausula, a substitute portion of organum

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Baroque music grew out of the ideals of

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mannerism

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The term basso continuo refers to

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a bass line and the harmonies it implies

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Mehter refers to

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a Turkish military percussion ensemble

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A concerto is

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an instrumental work contrasting a soloist or a group of soloist with a large ensemble

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A villancico

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a renaissance genre that gradually evolved into Christmas song from Latin America

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The term baroque

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originally referred to a misshapen pearl

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What is romanticism name derived from

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Romance literatures

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What genre is Franz Schubert (1797-1828) best known for

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Lied

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Francis Johnson

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African-american composer; dance and march forms; turning current melody into danceable form

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Smyphonie Fantastique

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Especially grand orchestration; wrote a text to explain the plot of the symphony; utilizes idee fize; begins with deep cello/bass; Berlioz

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Idee fixe

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fixed idea, a term coined by Berlioz for a recurring musical idea that links different movements of a work

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Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn

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Notturno in G minor; under the shadow of her brother; “better feminist reading should be more nuanced”

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Absolute music

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music that is only about itself; with no significant extramusical references

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Program music

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music that tells a story or refers to extramusical events in a way that has a significant effect on the form

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Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

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Supported her husband while he was alive by editing and performing his compositions; after his death, had a highly successful career as a performer, teacher and composer

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

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Antisemite; Altered orientation of opera in the 19th century

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Tristan und Isolde (1859)

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Wagner; based on a 12th century romance; influenced by the notion of humans being driven by unachievable desire; features liemotivs; unprecedented chromaticism and tonal ambiguity; Clara Schumann hated it; begins with cello

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Gesamtkunstwerk
German for total art of work; an art form that involves music, poetry, drama, and scenic design; often used in reference to Richard Wagners music dramas
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
his first symphony premiered in 1876; lived in Vienna; continued Beethoven's legacy
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Symphony No.1 in C minor (1876)
Brahms; begins with a dramatic formal intro with timpani; sonata form; chromatic
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Tone poem
invented by Frank Liszt, an orchestral form in which a poem or program provides a narrative of illustrative basis
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Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Czech composer; associated with Czech people's aspiration for independence; flute and plucking
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"Die Moldau" 1874 from Ma Vlast
Ma vlast is a set of six symphonic poems composed by Smetana between 1874 and 1879; associated with Czech culture
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Jan Sibelius (1865-1957)
helped Finland discover a national identity
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Samuel Coleridge Taylor
black British composer; wrote Hiawatha's Wedding Feast; 1875-1912
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Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1898)
Coleridge-taylor; Pan Africanism; starting with swooping violins; symphony and choir
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Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
composer and master of ragtime who considered the genre serious music; introduced ragtime to national audiences at the Chicago world's fair in 1893; seeking to elevate African American music and secure a broad national audience; composed treemonisha
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Treemonisha
an opera of early African-American folk life written and first staged by Scott Joplin in Harlem in 1915; contrasts use of dialect and non dialect; employs diminished 7th chords
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
French composer, seen as the musical equivalent to impressionism and symbolism but didn't like it; Estampes (1903) Piano
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Modernism
1900-?, Viewed as a continuation of the rejection of the Industrial Revolution that began in the Romantic Era
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Arnold Schoenberg
1874-1951; composer, theorist, teacher and painter; Founder of the Second Viennese School; composed Pierrot Lunar (1912); listening; super creepy, piano, soprano, flute
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Pierrot Lunaire, Mondestrunken
1912; Schoenberg's most celebrated work; makes use of Sprechstimme; harmony is atonal, has no tonal center
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Sprechstimme
a vocal style developed by Schoenberg, in betokening singing and speaking; pitches are approximated
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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Russian composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; Right of spring;Master of Rhythm; Listening: you know the melody. Kinda creepy, starts with woodwinds (1913)
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Bela bartok (1881-1945)
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, and teacher during the Romantic Era; improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs; slow piano
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Willian Grant Still
Dean of African-American composers in the 20th century; influenced by Coleridge Taylor; composed Darker America; fully symphony; deep tones
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Variations for Orchestra, op. 31
Schoenberg; contrasts a neoclassical period; 12-tone method
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Florence Price (1887-1953)
passed as Mexican to avoid prejudice; won Roman Wanamaker in 1931 for her Symphony no. 1 in E minor
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Symphony no. 1 in E minor
Florence price; first pefromanced in '33; employs rhythm from a juba dance; modified rondo form
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Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
American composer known for film music
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Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
composition for four instruments; academic composer
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John cage
composer 4'33", a completely silent piece; studied with Schoenberg in CA
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Hale Smith
1925-2009; taught at Uconn; worked as an arranger, editor, and advisor
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Steve Reich (1936)
American composer and percussionist; minimalist works include famous clapping music; heavily influenced by African drumming traditions; Music for 18 musicians
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George Walker
First African American composer to win the pulitzer price for composition; Harmonically ambiguous; lush timbral and harmonic vocabulary
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Caroline Shaw 1982
Partita for 8 voices; won the Pulitzer price (youngest person to do so)
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Der Leiermann
Schuber; lied; expressive use of harmony; pictorial accompianment;dramatic
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Victoria Gallop
The music of Francis Johnson; dance song; sounds circus-y
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Philadelphia Gray's Quickstep
Francis Johnson; heavy trumpet; danceable form; sustained trumpet note
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Notturno in G minor
Fanny Mendelssohn; substantial thematic development
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Piano Trio op. 17
1846; Clara Schumann; violin and piano
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Finlandia
Sibelius; symphony poem; 1899; Aggressive brass introduction

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