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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

 Definition

 Germany & Austria

 

Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler

   

     Romantic trditionalists influenced by Richard Wagner

     Tonal music, but became increasingly more chromatic

     Large forms (symponies & concertos)

 
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Impressionism
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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)

 

 
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Symbolism

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Literary Movement
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Stephane Marlarme & Paul Verlaine

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influenced by Edgar Allen Poe

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Expressionism

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GERMANY

 

*reaction to impressionism

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 Second Viennese School

Definition

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

Term
glissando
 Definition
a rapid sliding up or down the musical scale