Music Exam 3 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Sections of the orchestra | woodwinds, brass, stings, and percussion |
String Instruments | violins, violas, cellos, double bass, and harp |
Brass Instruments | Trumpet, french horn, tuba, and trombone |
Woodwind Instruments | flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon |
Percussion Instruments | Timpani, bass drum, snare drum, xylophone, tambourine, castanets and gong |
Woodwind Section | -made out of wood -blow into instrument to make sound |
String Section | -oldest & largest section -have strings and played with a bow |
Brass Section | -made out of metal -produces sound when player buzzes lips - |
Pitched Percussion | -definite pitch instruments |
non-pitched Percussion | -indefinite pitch instruments |
Romantic Period | -1825-1900 -rejected the enlightenment -human emotion as basis of art [extreme] -idealized individual over society -Supernatural and nature |
Lied | -Poem set to music -voice and piano -operatic vocal style Ex. Erlking -German -Man and piano |
Song Cycle | -Song Collections published and performed as a single work Ex. Ring on My Finger -woman's voice and piano -German |
Character Piece | -Instrumental work for piano Ex. Nocture No. 2 -strictly piano -happy sound |
Program Music | -Orchestral work -larger orchestra Ex. Fantastic Symphony |
Fantastic Symphony | -conceived as a musial description of a specific program -has 5 different sections |
Idee fixe | -uses a musical theme -fixed idea |
musical nationalism | -national opera -reflected the rise of nationalism in Europe |
Rubato | -Endless melody -no strict tempo Ex. Tristan und Isolde -younger woman |
Bel Canto | -beautiful singing and melodies -singing and symphony accompaniment Ex. La Boheme -Older and deeper sounding woman |
Grand Opera | -ultimate romantic genre -spectacular productions -combined all arts Ex. Tristan und Isolde and La Boheme |
Franz Schubert | -composer of the lied -1797-1829 Work: Erlking |
Robert Schumann | -1810-1856 -German Composer and writer Work: Ring on my finger |
Frederic Chopin | 1810-1849 -French-polish composer -wrote exclusively for the piano Works: Prelude in E minor and Nocture No.2 |
Hector Berlioz | -1803-1869 -French composer and critic -composed for large ensembles Work: Fantastic Symphony |
Richard Wagner | -1813-1883 -German Composer -rejected italian opera -composed music, story, and lyrics -nordic mythology and themes -Rubato style: endless melody Work: Tristan und Isolde |
Giuseppe Verdi | -1813-1901 -National style |
Giacomo Puccini | -1858-1924 Verismo Style: realism Work: La Boheme |
Modernism | 1900-1960 -technology -reflected profound changes in Western culture in early 20th century -end of Eurocentrism -increased use of dissonance, no resolution |
Impressionism | -irregular phrases -avoidance of traditional harmonic progres ambiguity on form -unresolved dissonance -whole tone scales |
Primitivism | directness, exoticism, non-urban cultures |
Expressionism | -irregular, episodic, fragmentory form and structure -abrupt musical language -clashing dissonances -great emotional intensity -interest in the common man |
Atonal Music | -emancipation of dissonance -logical extension of historical trends Ex. Perriot Lunaire |
12 tone/serial music | -Schoenberg -organized 12 tones into a series to avoid creating a tonal center -pitch series |
Claude Debussy | -1862-1918 -impressionist composer -rebelled against german romanticism -used non-tonal scales Ex. Piano Prelude, Voiles |
Igor Stravinsky | -1882-1971 -born in russia worked in paris -collaborated with ballet russe Ex. Rite of Spring |
Arnold Schoenberg | -1874-1951 -austrian composer and teacher -created atonal music Ex. Pierrot Lunaire |
Anton Webern | -studied with schoenberg -extended serialsim beyond pitch -extremely concentrated and concise style |
Charles Ives | -1874-1954 -american original -self-taught pioneer -embraced american music: marches, hymns, etc. Ex. Three Places in New England -polytonal -bands all mixed together |
Aaron Copland | -1900-1990 -American Nationalism -First American composer to achieve international status -embraced nationalism in 1930s -used folk songs in his works Ex. Appalachian Spring |
John Cage | -1912-1992 -Pushed the envelope -avant-garde american composer -influenced by zen buddhism -studied with schoenberg -electronic music -prepared piano: weights on strings Ex. Perilous night |
Duke Ellington | -1899-1974 -composer, pianist, bandleader -approached jazz as concert music Ex. Sepia Panorama |
Leonard Bernstein | -1918-1990 -composer, conductor, pianist -1st American conductor to gain get worldwide acclaim Ex. West Side Story: Tonight |
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