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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the impressionist painters- | french |
| who were the impressionists painters? | monet, manet, degas, pisarro, renoir |
| the symbolic poets | charles baudeelair, stephane mallarme, paul verlaine, arthur rimbaud |
| impressionism in music | ancient sales and exotic sales |
| ancient sales | church modes of the middle ages. machaut:modally based |
| exotic sales | chromatic, whole tone. debussy "voiles" (whole tone scales) |
| claude debussy (1862-1918) | french composer, impressionist, paris conservatory, prix de rome, opera pelease ad melisande (1902), died in 1918 |
| debussy's output | orchestral works- la mer, three nocturnes, "the afternoon of faun" |
| debussy's piano works | claire de lune, evening in granada, reflections in the water |
| nadia boulanger | 20th century music teacher |
| aaron copland | important composer in 20th century |
| the reaction against romanticism | escaping from refinement- adopt primitive, uninhibited, spontaneous style. non western sources |
| new trends in the arts | futurism, dadaism, cubism, -expressionism - german response to impressionism, subconscious: hallucinations; dreams- artists:kandinsky, Klee, Kokooschka, Munch |
| expressionists composers | arnold schoenberg, alban berg, anton |
| Neoclassicism | balance and objectivity, formal structures, back to bach, early 1920s, absolute music |
| new elements of musical style | the new rhthmic complexity, revitalization of rhyhm- polyrhthm, polymeter, changing meters, irregular meters |
| the new melody | instrumental character, wide leaps and dissonant intervals |
| the new harmony | beyond traditional systems of tonality, polychords, polyharmony |
| new concepts of tonality | major-minor systems not dominant, drive toward and tonic weakened, church modes and non western music,polytonality, atonality |
| the twelve tone method | devised by shoenberg, strict basone unified by tone row, tone row |
| stravisnky | russian composer, nicolai rimsky-korsakov, serge diaghilev and russian ballet. -firebird (1910) Petrushka (1911) the rite of spring *near riot, 1920 france |
| stravinskys trends | post-impressionism, primitivism, neoclassicism, seralism |
| shoenberg and the 2nd viennese school | german expressionism - arnold shoenberg and his followers |
| arnold shoenberg | austrian composer, conducter, teacher, artist, largely self taught |
| the european tradition | traditional music approached scientifically, seeking authenticity |
| Bela Bartok and the european tradition | 1881-1945, hungarian composer. studied folklore, emigrated to the u.s. in 1940, leukemia, ASCAP, died in new york city at 64 |
| Bartok's music | logic and beauty classical form, ,musical language based on easter europe tradition, new scales, polytonal harmonic language, tyrannical rule of the major and minor keys |
| nationalism in the americas | aaron coplan, paris, nadia boulanger, jazz idioms, neoclassicism, piano pieces, orchestral works, ballets, film scores |
| nationalism in the americans: Mexico | mexican culture draws on american indian, hispanic, and african cultures, catholic church powerful sinc 1519 |
| silverstre revueltas | mexican composer, child prodigy (violin), studies in mexico and the US |
| jazz | began arond 1900 in new orleans, originally music for bars and brothels, early practionarers primarlily af |