LIstening for midterm Flashcards
(34 cards)
Drum rolls and man is singing “wine” “margaret” woman comes in singing
Alban Berg Wozzeck act 3 and transition 1922
strings playing , pretty tonal, continuous line of scalular motion, change of character, staccoto strings, change again, more minor and dark (downward eighth notes)
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in A minor, op. 51/2, ii 1873
Ich Wund……er with piano underneath
Alma Schindler [Mahler]
(1879–1964)
Five Songs, #5 “Ich wandle unter Blumen” published 1911
Large orchestra, soaring lines mostly tonal, high screachy woodwinds at times, sad string lament at the very beginning
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp Major
I. Andante – Adagio 1910
Low string instrument beginning voice icchhhh sprriii, mostly short lines horn call response
Ending has a choir part
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor
IV. “Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht?”
1896
string lines connecting to make a motive, plucking on the string instruments, voice comes in after a minute in long lines
Arnold Shoenberg String Quartet No. 2, op. 10 in F-sharp
IV. “Entrückung” [Rapture] 1908
Piano piece, descending scale beginning, flourishes into a quicker speed, interjecting dissonances
Arnold Shoenberg Drei Klavierstücke [Three piano pieces], op. 11
I. Mäßige Viertel [Moderate quarter note]
1909
Chord beginning sort of melody
piano piece
Arnold Shoenberg
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke [Six little piano pieces], op. 19
III. Sehr langsame Viertel [very slow quarter note] 1913
single note beginning, call and response on piano, less melody more resonance
Arnold Schoenberg Sechs kleine Klavierstücke [Six little piano pieces], op. 19
VI. Sehr langsam [very slowly] 1913
Flute and piano plus voice, invid –in at beginning, phrasing that leads down
Arnold Schoenberg Peirrot Lunaire: 1. Moondrunken 1912
violin, piano opening before voice, some plucking crescendoing line with energy (grotesque)
Arnold Schoenberg: Peirrot Lunaire:
19. Serenade 1912
Opera feel, male baritone phrasing up. Female voice over tremolo instruments, tensious moment, female
Richard Strauss: Solome first scene 1905
orchestra with woman singing in high range
Richard Strauss: Solome final scene 1905
Man singing solo to start trumpet interlude, strings followed by upset woman, intensifying emotion tristan melody
Richard wagner Tristan and Isotide
Beginning of Act 1: Sailor’s Song 1857-59
Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta, I
“Song of the Harvest” 1939 Bela Bartok
Uncertainty in string music over percussion snare feeling
Bela Bartok Music for strings Percussion and Celeste 1936
Contuous Violin eighth notes, very atonal and then more tenuto accents
Bela Bartok “Song of the Harvest” 1931
Piano music, sounds almost like 2 pianos, scalular descents, then unison
Bela Barok Mikrokosmos “From the Island of Bali” 1932-39
Piano, continous eighth notes with more crunch, tritones everywhere
Bela Bartok Mikrokosmos “Diminished Fifth” 1932-39
Thirds planing over female voice. Dom –mi. (requiem) Main theme (“pieee Jusee)
Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu 1917
Ragtime feel, heavy textured piano music
Emmanuel Chabrier Souveniers De Munich 1886
piano music with two moving lines, distant fuzzy feeling, nostalgic
Debussy Estampes “Pagodes” 1903
Allegro, picking on one string instrument and strumming with another (very quiet at first)
Debussy String quartet in G minor op 10. mvt 2 1886
motive of thirty second notes in almost syncopation like rhythm
Debussy Preludes book 1
1910 “Violes”
