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Music History IV test no 1

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Richard Strauss   Wrote tone poems and opera, wrote "Salmone" (1905); Elektra (1906-8), wrote consonances, dissonances, chromaticism  
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Claude Debussy   Used ideas from medieval music (parallelism), "exotic" musics of asia, and some Russian composers. Artistic/poetic symbolism. Wrote mostly piano music  
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Maurice Ravel   Neo-Classicist, used older traditional forms, diatonic melodies, tonal harmonies with twists  
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Isaac Albeniz   "Iberia", suite for piano, uses dance rhythms and Spanish melodic traits  
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Manuel de Falla   Ballets "El amor brujo" and "El sombrero de tres picos", also borrows melodic, rhythmic devices from Spanish popular song and in spanish settings  
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Ralph Vaughan Williams   English folk music, pupil of Ravel, some modal inflections  
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Gustav Holst   Wrote for band, "The Planets", his Two Suites in Eb and F  
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Leo Janacek   Czech folk songs, dances, choral works, operas,  
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Jean Sibelius   used Stories/mythologies of his homeland, symphonic poems, used "classic genres" such as symphony, mostly tonal  
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Alexander Scriabin   used exotic scales/complex chord combos used as "tonal" referents, used dissonances. "Vers la Flamme, op 72, post tonal  
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Eric Satie   Satirical, avant-garde, odd titles, nonsensical running commentary, modern artistic trends, anti-sentimental, lean,spare textures/harmonies, no interest in music of the past  
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Jean Cocteau   Writer, wrote plays and collaborated with the Les Six  
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Luigi Russolo   Futurist, rejected instruments of the past, "The Art of Noises", music is based on noise, built own instruments  
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Arnold Schoenberg   Atonality and Serialism, wrote treatises to explain his musical choices, Hollywood composer, taught in colleges, rows  
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Anton Webern   Twelve tone style, Schoenberg's student, short works full of technique  
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Alban Berg   tonal atonalist, expressive qualities of late Romatics, used rows which maintained "tonal" relationships  
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Igor Stravinsky   Nationlistic and neoclassicist,"Pulcinella", "Firebird Suite" "Rite of Spring"  
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Bela Bartok   Romania, virtuoso pianist, built musical style around folk music: rhythmic, melodic and modal, blending with classical traditions, end of his career had atonality  
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Charles Ives   American, polytonality- music using mult keys, alternate chord structures, and textural experiments, nationalist, Techniques: collage, experimental sounds, cumulative form, stylistic heterogeneity  
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Artur Hoenegger   Member of Les Six, "Pacific 231", oratorio "king David", Symphony No. 3 "liturgical  
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Darius Milhaud   Influenced by jazz and popular music, "Le Boeuf sur le toit", "la creation du monde", "Saudades do brasil"  
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Francis Poulenc   Surrealist, witty works like Les mamelles de Tiresias and Piano Concerto; later works somewhat more reflective, incl. Mass, Gloria, opera Dialogues of the Carmelites, Organ Concerto  
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Paul Hindemith   Gebrauschmusik, wrote for all ensembles/instruments, "new objectivity", Mathis der Maler  
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Sergei Prokofiev   Ballets and film scores, post WWII wrote symphonies, piano sonatas  
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Heitor Villa-Lobos   Brazilian, mixes Brazilian and modern music, "Choros", "Bachinas Brasileiras"- uses baroque techniques  
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Edgard Varese   Experiments in manipulatino of sound masses; "organized sound"  
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Henry Cowell   tone clusters, manipulation of piano strings, interest in past American and non-Western  
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George Gershwin   song and Broadway composer, "Rhapsody in Blue", jazz, "An American in Paris"  
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Aaron Copland   Music "for use"; film scores, "accessible period" includes "Billy the Kid", "Appalachian Spring"  
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William Grant Still   Wrote "Afro American Symphony", student of Chadwick and Varese, blended African American idioms  
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Virgil Thomson   Music critic for NY Herald-Tribune; pianist, studied in Paris, operas, film scores  
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Howard Hanson   Neo-Romantic, Symphony No. 2 "romantic"  
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Richard Rogers   Broadway/musical composer, had many hits with Hammerstein  
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Oscar Hammerstein II   Lyricist for Broadway  
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Cole Porter   Composed "Kiss me, Kate"  
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Leonard Bernstein   conductor and composer of art music, "West Side Story", "On the Town" with lyricist Stephen Sondheim  
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Bernard Hermann   Wrote film scores, esp for Hitchcock, modernist like Berg and Hindemith and Ives,  
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Charlie Parker   Jazz saxophonist  
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Dizzy Gillespie   Jazz trumpetist  
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Oliver Messiaen   traditional instruments/combos, rhythm oganized around duration not meter, "Quartet for the End of Time", Modes of limited transposition  
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Benjamin Britten   British composer, modern, "War Requiem", "Peter Grimes"  
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Samuel Barber   Neo Romantic, "Adagio for Strings",  
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Alberto Ginastera   Argentinian composer of some nationalist bent  
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John Cage   Avant-garde, non traditional percussion sounds, prepared piano- "Sonatas and Interludes", indeterminancy  
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Morton Feldman   Avant Garde group w/ Cage, "Projection 1" for solo cello, graphic notation of boxes/lines  
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Milton Babbitt   Created 12 tone rows, electronic music,"Philomela"  
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Karlheinz Stockhausen   Electronic composition, total-serialist, "Kreuzspiel",  
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Pierre Boulez   avant-garde of the serialists, electronic music, conducting  
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Luciano Berio   Virtuosic composer, "Sequenza"  
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Harry Partch   Devised own scale and instruments that could play in that scale  
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George Crumb   unusual "instruments" (toy piano), modification of instruments, "Makrokosmos"  
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Colin McPhee   inspired by the music of Indonesia, gamelan  
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Pierre Schaeffer   Worked with everyday sounds recorded and manipulated by electronics, "Symphonie pour un homme seul"  
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Hugh LeCaine   "Dripsody", worked with electronic sounds and manipulated them  
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Robert Moog   Developed commercially viable synthesizers  
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Krzysztof Penderecki   Use of graphic notation and extremes of register to created distinct concept of space and texture with some indeterminancy "Threnody for the victoms of hiroshima"  
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George Rochberg   New use of old music, "Nach Bach" , "Contra mortem et tempus"  
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Karel Husa   Wrote for band, "Music For Prague"  
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Terry Riley   Minimalist, repetition of a few short figures over a repeating C  
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Steve Reich   Spoken-voice tape works, minimalist, using tape loops slightly out of phrase  
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John Adams   Post Miminalist, "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"  
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Philip Glass   "Einstein on the Beach", minimalism, "Qatsi",  
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich   developing variation to much clearer and more transparent textures, "Symphony No. 1"  
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Arvo Part   tintinnabuli, "Seven Magnificat Antiphons"  
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Sofia Gubaidulina   Russian composer, composed spiritual themes, "Rejoice!",accessible  
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Alfred Schnittke   Postmodernist, film music composer. Wrote polystylism, a combo of new and old styles thru quotation and stylistic allusion. "Concerto Grosso no 1"  
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Michael Daughtery   Wrote "Dead Elvis", pop influenced  
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Bright Sheng   mixed Eastern traditions with Western, "Seven tunes haerd in China", "The Silver River"  
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Impressionism   Monet, Cezanne, etc; Suggestion of figures, background, etc. rather than clear depiction; the view is left to "fill in" the picture  
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Atonality   music that avoids a central pitch or tonal center  
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Expressionism   derived from art, avoids all traditional forms of "beauty" in order to express deep personal feelings thru exaggerated gestures, angular melodies and extreme dissonance  
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Sprechstimme   "Speaking voice", vocal style by Schoenberg in which performer approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following notated rhythm  
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Serial Composition   uses twelve tone method, esp. for music that extends the same general approach to series in parameters other than pitch.  
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Row   an ordering of all 12 pitch classes that is used to generate the musical content  
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Dodecaphony   Another term for 12 tone music  
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Set   collection of pitch classes that preserves its identity when transposed, inverted, or reordered  
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Neoclassicism   Idea that French music is classic in style and character, use of classical forms, genres, tonal  
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Les Six   Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric. All had similar attitudes  
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Film Music   Music used in the background of films, reflected "classical" trends, uses all styles of music  
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Socialist Realism   a doctrine, which all arts were required to use a realistic approach that portrayed socialism in a positive light. Music was simple, accessible, melodic and patriotic.  
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DSCH   motive used by Shostakovitch. D, Eb, C, B. It spells out his name  
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Broadway   Musicals, usu. a collaboration between Composer and lyricist, centered around Broadway in NYC  
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Total Serialism   use of 12 tone method to musical parameters other than pitch: duration, intensities, timbres  
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Aleatory   Music that some part of it is left to chance, or up to the performer  
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Electronic Music   music created by electronic instruments, or manipulated by electronics  
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Musique Concrete   French, music composed by assembling and manipulating recorded sounds, working "concretely" with the sound itself  
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Synthesized Music   music created by syhtnesizers  
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Computer Music   creating music on a computer.  
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Minimalism   repetition forms, indeterminacy, adaptable with traditional or electronic instruments  
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Tape Loops   1. segment of magnetic recording tape spliced to form a loop that can run continuously thru a tape recorder and play recorded sounds repeatedly. 2) the continually repeating set of sounds that results  
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Postminimalism   uses minimalism in combination with traditional methods, more varied material, and greater expressivity  
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tintinnabuli   Created by Arvo Part, counterpoint between pitch-centered, mostly stepwise diatonic melody and one or more voices that sound only notes of the tonic triad, with the placement of each note determined by a preset system  
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postmodernism   late 20th c, that blurs boundaries between high and popular art, and in which styles of all epochs and cultures are equally available for creating music  
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Neo-Romanticism   composers adopted tonal idioms of romantic music and incorporated its sounds and gestures  
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