FINAL Flashcards

Question

What is the central theme of The Ring?

Answer 1

Love vs. Power

Answer 2

Unrhymed, alliterative verse modeled on Icelandic epic poetry

Answer 3

A musical idea associated with a person, object, or idea

Answer 4

The synthesis of the separate arts in opera

Answer 5

Pure instrumental music, like symphonies, sonatas, concertos

Answer 6

Instrumental music with an accompanying verbal description (the program)

Answer 7

Form with a repeating theme and varied episodes (e.g., ABACA)

Answer 8

Constructing music out of small, continually developed motives

Answer 9

An orchestral piece in one movement with a program

Answer 10

Music that accompanies a spoken play (overture, songs, entr'actes, etc.)

Answer 11

Imitation of simple country music, using 'bagpipe' drones, simple harmonies, and circling melodies

Answer 12

Five-note scale, often used in pastoral music

Answer 13

A painting movement dedicated to capturing the momentary effect of light

Answer 14

Poetic movement that sought to evoke and suggest, rather than state meanings directly

Answer 15

1) Understatement 2) Refinement 3) Harmonic color 4) Detachment

Answer 16

Italian operatic style that originated in the 1890s, with realistic modern settings, gritty plots, and heavy voices

Answer 17

The use of foreign elements in Western music, often drawn from Asia, Africa, or the Middle East

Answer 18

No logical connection between chords, break with traditional tonality

Answer 19

Use of all twelve notes ('white and black keys') instead of simply the seven notes of the major scale

Answer 20

*PENTATONIC: five notes, no half steps *DIATONIC: seven notes, two half steps *WHOLE TONE: six notes, only whole steps *CHROMATIC: twelve notes, all half steps

Answer 21

Russian ballet troupe that performed Stravinsky's first ballets

Answer 22

An artistic movement that drew inspiration from traditional non-Western art

Answer 23

A repeating mechanical pattern

Answer 24

Texture with only accompaniment, no melody

Answer 25

A group of composers including Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern

Answer 26

Artistic movement that sought to express emotion through extreme, distorted means

Answer 27

The absence of any key center, no more sense of consonance and dissonance

Answer 28

Speech-singing in which the performer slides between notes

Answer 29

A form of harmonic organization in which all twelve chromatic notes are stated in a series before any of them are repeated

Answer 30

The order of the twelve pitches in a serialist work

Answer 31

The science of recording folk, mostly oral cultures

Answer 32

Free use of all seven notes of the major scale

Answer 33

Role of Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring

Answer 34

A folksong used in Appalachian Spring

Answer 35

I I I I IV IV I I V V I I

Answer 36

A pentatonic scale with 'blue' notes

Answer 37

Flowering of African-American art in New York during the 1920s

Answer 38

Use of percussion instruments and irregular meters

Answer 39

Meter that doesn’t fall into regular 2 or 3 groupings; for example, 5 (3+2) or 7 (4+3)

Answer 40

All musical elements (rhythm, dynamics, register, etc.) are controlled by a series, not just the pitch

Answer 41

A piano whose sound has been altered by foreign objects

Answer 42

Music whose performance admits an element of chance

Answer 43

Contemporary musical style featuring the repetition of short melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with little variation

Answer 44

1) Tonal harmonies 2) Ostinatos 3) Low frequency of events 4) Long-term processes

Answer 45

A compositional style in which a composer selects a simple musical idea and repeats it over and over, as it’s gradually changed or elaborated upon

Answer 46

A technique in which members of an ensemble begin playing the same rhythmic pattern but very gradually accelerating, thus moving 'out of phase'

Answer 47

Operetta, vaudeville revues

Answer 48

First 'book musical' with a real drama and serious issues (racism, intermarriage)

Answer 49

First musical conceived as a true synthesis of drama, music, and dance

Answer 50

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Answer 51

The basic form of musical theater songs

Answer 52

A metrical grouping that competes with the notated meter, for example, in 'America'

Answer 53

*Recurring Motive *Recitative-Aria *Operatic writing *Chromaticism, fugal writing

Answer 54

Popularized sound film

Answer 55

Early 1930s to late 1950s

Answer 56

Late 1950s to 70s

Answer 57

Restored the classic Hollywood score, with leitmotifs and symphony orchestra

Answer 58

The edited version of the film without the music

Answer 59

The decision of where to place musical cues

Answer 60

Discrete musical sections with a film

Answer 61

Technology of encoding sound visually on the celluloid film, which made possible sound film

Answer 62

Music that does not belong to the narrative and is heard only by the audience

Answer 63

Music that originates within the narrative and can be heard by the characters

Answer 64

Emphasized heavy, more dramatic singing which moved away from bel canto.

Answer 65

Soprano - high female voice, typically heroine Mezzo-Soprano- low female voice, typically temptress Tenor - high male voice, hero Bass - low male voice, villain

Answer 66

cycle of four operas by Wagner (anti-semitism) (includes The Valkyrie).

Answer 67

German medieval epic and Norse mythology.

Answer 68

a painting movement that broke down familiar objects into geometrical shapes and got rid of traditional perspective.

Answer 69

folk themes were transplanted into a Romantic musical style in the 19th century, but in the 20th century the folk material begins to transform the musical style itself.

Answer 70

Based each movement off a sculpture made by an artist in the Harlem Renaissance

FINAL Flashcards

(94 cards)