Music Appreciation (Final) Flashcards

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Symbolism

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Writings suggestive of images and ideas instead of literally descriptive

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Impressionism

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Capture the first impression of a subject

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Neoclassical movement

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Sought to return to the formal structures of the past

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Expressionism

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Counterpart to Impressionism

Explores new harmonies and extreme registers of instruments

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Second Viennese school

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Schoenberg berg Webern

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Expressionism musical signifiers

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Hyperexpressive harmonies
Wide leaps in the melodie
Instruments in extreme registers

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Impressionism signifiers

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Exotic scales (chromatic, whole tone, pentatonic)
Unresolved dissonance
Parallel chords
Rich orchestral color
Free rhythms
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Prelude to the afternoon of a faun

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Debussy

Symphonic poem

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Stravinsky

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Dissonance
Polyrhythmic
Polytonal

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Schoenberg

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Created the twelve tone method (serial)

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Rite of spring
Dance of the youth and maidens
Game of abduction

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Stravinsky

Ballet
Based on Russia

Big block chords

Scurrying melodies

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Sprechstimme

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Spoken voice

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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Tone colored melody

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Pierrot lunaire no 18 moonfleck

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Schoenberg

Song cycle

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Ethnimusicologists

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Study music in cultural and global contexts

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Concerto for orchestra

Interrupted intermezzo

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Bartok

Orchestral concerto

Shifting meters
Solo woodwinds

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O fortuna from carmine burana

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Off

Secular cantata

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Country band march

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Ives

March for band

Very dissonant

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Appalachian spring

Section 7

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Copland

Ballet

Shaker melody

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Ragtime

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Very syncopated

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Blues

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American form of music based on a simple, repetitive, poetic musical structure

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Maple leaf rag

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Joplin

Piano rag

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New Orleans jazz

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Multiple players improvising on top of each other

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Scat singing

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Singing with just syllables

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Take the a train
Duke Ellington Big band jazz
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West side story | Mambo
Bernstein Musical theater Tony and Maria
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aleatoric music
Chance | Left decisions determining the overall shape of a piece to the performer or chance
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Little black horse
Crumb Song from madrigals Percussion flute and soprano
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Gamelan
Ensemble of metal percussion instruments
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Erhu
2 string fiddle
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Tone clusters
Groups of adjacent notes sounded with the palm, fist, or forearm
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Sonata 5 from sonatas and interludes
Cage 16 sonatas For prepared piano
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Wayang
Shadow puppet theater
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Slendro
Pentatonic tuning
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Pelog
Seven note tuning
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Pipa
4 string plucked lute
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Musique concrete
Natural sounds recorded on tape as a medium for composition
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Electronicsche musik
Compositions using electronically generated sounds
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Minimalist music
Based on a repetitive melody with few changes or variations Hypnotic
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Neoromanticism
Lushly harmonic like romanticism
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Cantate domino canticum novum
Part Psalm motet Chant like For SATB and piano
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Doctor atomic | At the sight of this
Adams Opera Librettist: Peter sellars Prominent timpani Dissonant Syncopated