Mapeh Flashcards
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Revealed the composers mind, it served as a medium for expressing strong emotions such as anxiety, rage and alienation.
Expressionism
Was a moderating factor between the emotional excesses of the romantic period and violent impulses of the soul in expressionism.
Neo-classicism
It is sought to combine modern techniques with folk materials
Modern Nationalism
Made use of the whole tone scale, it created a mood rather than a definite picture, it had a translucent and hazy texture, lacking a dominant-tonic relationship
Impressionism
Is tonal through the stressing of one note as more important the the others, it combines two familiar or simple ideas together create new sounds
Primitivism
Closely associated with electronic music and dealt with the parameters or dimension of sound in space
Avant-garde
-His compositional style is mainly characterized by its uniquely innovative but not atonal style of harmonic treatment.
-was born in Ciboure, France to a Basque mother and wiss father.
-give me five of his works
Joseph Maurice Ravel
Works:
Bolero(1875-1937)
Rhapsodie Espagnole(1907-1908)
Daphnis et Chloe (1912)
La valse (1902)
Tzigane(1922)
-was born in Vienna, Austria on September 13,1874
-his style was constantly undergoing development.
-his work we’re met with extreme reactions-either strong hostility from the general public or enthusiastic acclaim from his supporters.
-give his works.
Arnold Schoenberg
Works:
Pierrot Lunaire
Verldarte Nacht ( transfigured night 199)
Verldarte Nacht, three pieces for piano op.11 successful pieces
Gurrelieder
-one of the most important and influential composer.
-born in ST.Germaine-en laye France on Augusto 22, 1862
-he gained reputation as an erotic pianist and a rebel in theory and harmony
-in 1884, he won the top prize at the Prix de Rome competition with his composition L’enfant Prodigue ( the prodigal son )
-give 5 of his works
Claude Debussy
Works:
Prelude to the afternoon of faun
Pelleas Melisande (1895)
Images, suit bengamasqeu,and estamples
Ariettes oubliees
String quartet
La mer (1905 )
-born in Oranlenbaum (now lomonosov), Russia on June 17 1882
-his first successful masterpiece, “The firbird suit”
-adapted the forms of the 18th century with his contemporary styles of writing
-despite the shocking modernity,his music is also very structured,precise, controlled,full of artifice and theoretically.
-give me two of his works
Igor Stravinsky
Works:
Petrouchka (1911)
The rite of spring (1913)
-born in Nagyszentinikilos, Hungary (now Romania)on march 25,1881.
-Kussoth in 1903 was his first Nationalistic poem.
-he used Hungarian folk themes and rhythms, he also utilize changing meters and strong syncopation.
-his composition were successful because of their rich melodies and lively rhythms.
-give me five of his works
Bela Bartok
Works:
The concerto for orchestra (1943)
Six string quartets (1908-1938)
Alegro Barbaro (1911)
Mikrokosmos(1926-1939)
-regarded as a composition of a neo-classicist, nationalist and avant garde composer.
-his famous style is uniquely recognizable for it’s progressive technique, pulsating rhythms melodic directness and a resolving dissonance.
-born in Ukraine in 1891
-give me all of his works
Sergie Prokofieff
Works:
Romeo and Juliet (ballet)
War and peace (opera)
Peter and the wolf
Symphony no1.
Give all the members of the lex six
GEORGE AURIC
LOUIS DUREY
ARTHUR HANEGGER
DARIUS MILHAUD
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE
- one of the relatively few composers born into wealth and a privileged social position.
- he was a member of the group of young french composers known as “Les six”
-give me all of his works
Frances Poulenc
Works:
Harpsichord Concerto
The concerto for two pianos
Concerto for solo piano
Les Mamelles de teresias
Dialogues des Carmelites
La Voix Humane
Wrote music for the moves with lots of energy
George Auric
Liked chamber music and the symphony (pacific 232)
Arthur Honegger
Used traditional way of composing
Louis Durey
The only female in the group used dance rhythms, loved children and animals.
Germaine Tailleferre
Talented composers who wrote in several diff. styles
Darius Milhaud
-born in New York to Russian Jewish immigrants.
-his first song was written in 1916
- he is true “crossover artist”
-he is considered as the (father of American jazz)
-Give me All of his works
George Gershwin
Works:
Rhapsody in blue
Porgy and Bess
La la lucile
-born in Massachusetts, USA
-his philosophy was that the Universal language of music is basically rotted in Tonality.
-he archived Preeminence in two fields : Conducting and Composing
-give me all of his works
Leonard Bernstein
Works:
West side story
Candide
American adaptation of Romeo and Juliet
Mass
Young people’s concerts
-a minimalist composers also an avant garde composers.
-born in New York,USA of Jewish percentage
-became an accomplished violinist and flutist at the age of 15
-completed the trilogy with the opera Satyagraha (1980)and Akhenaten (1984)
-give me two of his works
Philip Glass
Works:
Philip Glass in motion
Music in changing parts
-a minimalist composers also an avant garde composers.
-born in New York,USA of Jewish percentage
-became an accomplished violinist and flutist at the age of 15
-completed the trilogy with the opera Satyagraha (1980)and Akhenaten (1984)
-give me two of his works
Philip Glass
