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Title: 20th Century & more
Description: 20th Century composers and Musical elements
Total Flash Cards: 7
Created: 11/22/2008 11:49:11
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Post Romanticism
Germany & Austria
Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler
Romantic trditionalists influenced by Richard Wagner
Tonal music, but became increasingly more chromatic
Large forms (symponies & concertos)
France
Claude Monet Impression: Sunrise
A movement initially developed by painters
Claude Debussy
exotic scales of nonwestern origin: Chromatic, Whole tone, and Pentatonic
Ninth chords(5 notes built in 3rds) waivering between major and minor modes
Subtle Orchestral colors
Short programmatic forms (preludes &
nocturns)
Symbolism
Stephane Marlarme & Paul Verlaine
influenced by Edgar Allen Poe
Expressionism
GERMANY
*reaction to impressionism
Second Viennese School
Arnold Schoenburg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern
atonal expressionism and serial music
Schoenburg used Sprechstimme (sung and spoken) and Klangfarbenmelodie
Webern - Klangfarbenmelodie (tone color melody) and total serialized music
Berg - Tonal tradition and Wagner's leitmotif techniques
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