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Music quiz 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impressionism | >No rules. >Focused on your perceptions and sensations. >Because it's your impression, it can't be wrong. |
| > Claude Debussy | French Preludes, Book 1 Prelude to the afternoon of a faun |
| Tone poem | A piece for music that provokes emotion. |
| Arnold Schoenburg | Pierrot Lunaire > 21 songs for solo piano and small ensemble> From Austria Germany, moved to US >Suite for piano, op. 25 - Gigue (12 tone method) |
| Expressionism | > Represent inner moods and thoughts > Not necessarily "beautiful" |
| Sprechstimme | Speech voice |
| Atonal | No key center |
| 12 tone method | Music by math |
| Igar Stravinsky | >The firebird ( Ballet) >The Rite of spring- Huge orchestra >Russian, moved to paris, then become US citizen Part 1: The adoration of the Earth Part 2: The great sacrifice |
| Ballet | Comprised of primarily orchestral music that provokes a story that people dance too. |
| Polytonality | Puts 2 harmonies together that do not go together. |
| Ostinato rhythm | Repeated and never changed. |
| Tonal | Central pitch that the music gravitates around. |
| Atonal | >No harmonic pitch or center. >All notes have equal weight and importance. |
| Charles Ives | The unanswered question: > Strings play throughout represent the silence of the druids. > Solo trumpet interjects throughout and represents the unanswered question. > Wind quartet answers the trumpets question. > From CT |
| Wind Quartet | 2 flutes, 2 clarinets. |
| William Grant Still | First African American to have a symphony preformed by a major organization > A black Pierrot >From Mississippi |
| Chromatic Harmony | Tonal, but uses all the notes. (Black and White keys.) |
| Aaron Copeland | "Hoe-Down" From Rodeo> Open scoring Fanfare for the common man >Brooklyn NY |
| Open Scoring | Uses the lowest the highest notes. |
| Fanfare (Genre.) | Meant to announce something, usually brassy. |
| Leonard Bernstein | Conductor of the New York Film harmonic. > West Side story: Musical >From New York |
| Musical | A spoken drama with a substantial amount of singing |
| John Cage | Born in LA, moved to NY |
| Aleatory Music | chance music, no control over the notes dynamics; instruments is all by chance. > Text read aloud to last exactly one minute. > Text accompanied by a musician in another room. |
| Musique concrete | music created by real, every day, objects |
| Phillip glass | Baltimore > Einstein on the beach |
| Minimalism | a brief musical idea that is repeated & varied Incrementally over a long period of time, with a relatively slow rate of change |
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