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Preludes, Book 1, No. 2 Voiles Flashcards

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What organization took the lead in develping a new notational system?

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The Catholic Church

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What was the first musical era?

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The Middle Ages also known as the Medieval period

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Why did the Catholic Church want to develop a new notational system?

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So they could standardize music across the far-flung Holy Roman Empire

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What movement caused the power of the Church to wane?

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Humanism

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When was the Renaissance Period?

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1400 to 1600

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When is the end of the Baroque era placed?

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At around 1750

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What happened in the year 1750?

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The noted composer Johann Sebastian Bach died marking the end of the Baroque Period

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What was the era after the Classical era?

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The Romantic period

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What does the word Baroque mean?

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Misshapen or distorted

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When did the modern era begin?

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At the start of the 20th centruy

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What were the two styles that composers argued over at the start of the Baroque period?

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Antique style and Modern style

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The trend of people demanding old favorites lead to what term?

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Canon

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What does classical music with a lower case c refer to?

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Art music from any era

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Whose music is characterized as post-Romantic?

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Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauuss, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sergei Rachmaninoff

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What is the rich array of timbres in post-Romantic music referred to as?

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Tone colors

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What European born conductor was conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra?

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Leoplod Stokowski (1882-1977)

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Americans tended to hire orchestra coductors from what region?

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Europe

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When was Peabody founded and where?

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1857 in Baltimore

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What music school located in Boston was established in 1867?

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Boston’s New England Conservvatory

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When did Juilliard School open its doors and where?

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In New YOrk in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Artt

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What new instruments were produced in the 19th century?

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The saxophone, piccolo, and tuba

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What had wires been iinitially used for in the 19th century?

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Long-distance communication via the telegraph and the telphone

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What Italian inventor achieved a breakthrough in wireless technology?

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Guglielmo Marconi (1874 to 1937)

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When was speech transmitted for the first time?

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December 23, 1900

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Who presented the first public radio broadcasts on January 12 and 13, 1900?
Lee De Forest
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What did Lee De Forest transmit as the first public radio broadcasts and what singer was featured?
Two performances of New York's Metropolitan Opera with the voice of Enrico Caruso (1873 to 1921)
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What disaster caused the Radio Act of 1912?
The 1912 Titanic disaster
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What was the nearest ship to receive the Titanic's distress signal but ignore it because the radio operator was off-duty?
S.S. Californian
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What were the two main requirements of the Radio Act of 1912?
That all seagoing vessels needed to hire enough radio operators so that distress frequencies could be monitored continuously and all U.S> radio stations needed to be licensed by the U.S. government
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When did The Department of Commerce shut down all private radio operations in the United States?
April 7, 1917
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When was private radio operations restored by the Department of Commerce
1920
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What was the first song recorded onto tinfoil in 1877 by Thomas Edison?
Mary Had a Little Lamb
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What did Edison initially view his phonograph as useful for?
As a dictation machine for use in business offices
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What invention did Edison swap the phonograph for?
His electric light
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What machine did Columbia introduce at the same time Edison was marketing his phonograph?
The graphophone
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What device followed the graphophone?
The gramophone
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What style of disks were common in affluent houses by 1910?
78 rpm discs
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What symphony did the Berlin Philharmonic record in 1913?
Fifth Symphony by Beethoven
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How many discs did the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven require?
8 discs bound in an album
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How much did Enrico Caruso make on average per year from 1904 to 1920?
115,000
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What manufacturer produced a trennch model gramophone for th efront line?
Decca
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What grieving musician found solace in the gramophone after his brother was killed in 1916?
Arthur Bliss
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What corporal experienced a bombardment with his gramophone?
Corporal A.D> Pankhurst
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What English battery commander used a record containing defiant anti-German songs as an assault weapon in 1918?
Captain Parrish
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Who was the German lieutenant who captured Captain Parrish's trench and his gramophone?
Ernst Junger
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What American recorded more than two thousands Native American melodies?
Frances Densomore
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What was the problem with early recording machines and folk music?
That it had to be shortened or performed much quicker than usual because of the limited amount of time on the recording
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What new term was developed to describe the work of musicians recording traditional folk melodies?
Ehtnomusicology
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Who were two Hungarian scholars and composers?
Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok
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What machine did Edison unveil in 1891?
The Kinetoscope
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What was the Kinetoscope?
A machine that allowed one person at a time to view silent images
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What was a Kinetophone?
A Kinetoscope cabinet equipped with a phonograph so a person could hear music through headphones
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What was the problem with early films?
That they were silent
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How was music provided during silent films?
Provided by lie musicians
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What was the coordination of a phonograph or gramophone with the projector known as?
Sound on disc technology
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When did American inventor Lee De Forest and others perfect a vacuum tube that permit a louder sound amplification?
In the 1920's
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Sound with films had to wait until the development of what technology?
Vacuum tubes
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What were short films with sound known as?
Shorts
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What was the first feature film with spoken dialogue?
The Jazz Singer (1927)
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Who called Erik Satie's music shapeless and that it lacked form?
Claude Debussy
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What did Erik Satie write in response to Debussy's criticism of his music?
Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear (1903)
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Who would become famous for his drip paintings where he poured or threw paint over his canvas?
Jackson Pollack
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What composer achieved notoriety for works such as The Tides of Manaunaun (1912)
Henry Cowell
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What did Henry Cowell use in The Tides of Manaunauun?
Tone clusters where blocks of sound are produced by using the fist or even the entire forearm
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What painting started the Impressionist movement?
Impression: Sunrise
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Who painted Impression Sunrise?
Claude Monet
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What French artists were experimenting with Impressionism?
Eduord Manet, Edgar Dea and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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What English painter was a pioneer of Impressionism?
J.M.W. Turner
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What were the Impressionists paintings?
Landscapes
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What were Impressionist fascinated by?
Depicting the effects of light
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What critic claimed that Wallpaper was better than Monet's painting?
Louis Leroy
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What art critic said that Impressionists rendered the sensation produced by the landscape?
Jule-Antoine Castagnary
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What was the form of Impressionist pieces?
Vague and inexact with common floating sensations
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What was the harmony of Impressionism based on?
Common practice tonality but with more added pitches
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How many half steps are in the whole tone scale?
None
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What is the effect of no half steps?
There is no natural pull to the tonic
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What French poetry movement has parallels with Impressionism?
Symbolism
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WHo were Symbolist poets?
Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Verlaine and Albert Giraud from Belgium
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What did Symbolist poetry emphasize imagery over?
Narrative structure
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What was one of the most famous Impressionist compositions?
Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
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What is Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun based on?
A symbolist poem by Mallarme
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What Frenchman also wrote Impressionist pieces?
Maurice Ravel
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What woman wrote Impressionist pieces?
Lili Boulanger
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What awad did Lili Boulanger win?
The Prix de Rome
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What Italian used Impressionist ideas in Fountains of Rome (1916)?
Ottorino Respighi 1879-1936
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What English composer living in France also wrote Impressionist pieces?
Frederick Delius, 1862-1934
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Who helped introduce Impressionist ideas to the United States?
Charles Griffes 1884 to 1920
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What piece form Roman Sketches of 1915-16 helped introduce Impressionist ideas to the United States?
The White Peacock
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What term did Debussy prefer to Impressionism?
Realities
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How many books of Preludes are there?
Two
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How many works are in each book of Preludes
A dozen works for solo piano
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What are the two most famous Preludes?
The Sunken Cathedral and The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
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What kind of pieces are Preludes?
Character piece
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When were character pieces become popular?
The Romantic period
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What is the word prelude a reference to?
Preludes and Fugues composed by J.S. Bach
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Who challenged listeners expectations by putting together entire sets of character pieces that he labeled preludes?
Frederick Chopin
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Where did Debussy put the title of each Prelude?
At the end of each piece
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What could voiles mean?
The veil or the sail
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Who was Debussy making a tribute to with his preludes?
Frederick Chopin
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What is the structure of Voiles?
ABA or ternary
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How many motifs does Debussy craft from a whole tone scale in the opening of the prelude of Voiles?
Three
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What scale does Debussy use for the middle portion of Voiles?
A pentatonic scale
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What is a glissando?
A rapid gesture that resembles the sweeping motion of a harp
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Who was Debussy's teacher?
Ernst Guiraud
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What composer observed that each stroke of a French composers brush is of vital importance?
Maurice Ravel

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