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Final
MUHL 2303
38
Music
Undergraduate 2
05/11/2012

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Term
"The Cage"
Definition
Charles Ives
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Charles Ives
Definition
New ideas; borrowed program music
change compositional language
vertical lines of music like a cage
assymmetry
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"The Banshee"
Definition
Henry Cowell
Term
The Tides of Manuanaun
Definition
Irish programmatic myth
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12 tone method
Definition
Schoenburg
Term
How do you organize atonal music?
Definition
timbre
borrowed form
rhythmic repetition
text
choreography
Term
Schoenberg's Hiatus
Definition
1917-23
Term
Schoenberg's two students
Definition
Berg and Webern
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Total serialism
Definition
brief pieces due to lack of repetition
expert audience
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"Pulcinella"
Definition
Stravinsky Overture
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Second Viennese School
Definition
"Extension of serial treatments to parameters beyond pitch" using rhythmic durations, articulation, instrumentation
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Socialist Realism
Definition
Government attempt to shape art
vague; working class; portray spirit/power
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Alexander Nevsky Cantata
Definition
Prokofiev (1938)
Term
Who is the author and composer of Pulcinella-Serenata Largo?
Definition
Stravinsky
Couperin
Perogolesi
Term
Hoedown
Definition
Aaron Copland
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Copland
Definition
patriotic
simplistic, easy melody, defined phrases
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Appalachian Spring
Definition
Copland; programmatic ballet
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GI Bill
Definition
Soldiers home from war sought free education; institutions of higher education; new universities and faculty
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Optimism in Post WWII America
Definition
America as chief military power
economic boom
increase in marriage, fertility rates
higher standard of living
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Anxiety in Post WWII America
Definition
Atomic bomb (Russian military powers)
fake 200 member communist list in gov
Term
Threnody of Hiroshima
Definition
Penderecki; response to Hiroshima; hymn/memorial
experimental technique; musical horror
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"The Great Atomic Power"
Definition
Louvin Brothers; Advent of nuclear apocalypse
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Conformity
Definition
white family man; spawned civil rights movement
Term
"Different Trains"
Definition
Steve Riech; Response to Holocaust and Genocide
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"Aleatoric"
Definition
Chance music
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"Poeme Electronique"
Definition
Varese; magnetic tape, tool for new sound
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Cominatonality
Definition
Legacy of Webern; integral/total serialism
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"3 Compositions for Piano"
Definition
Milton Babbitt
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Milton Babbitt
Definition
veteran; music = science; research music
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"Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano"
Definition
John Cage
Term
John Cage
Definition
Saught freedom
aleatoric
gave up control (4:33)
Term
East VS. West
Definition
Control VS. Freedom
Term
Minimalism
Definition
minimal change over a period of time; music slowly breaks apart
Term
"It's Gonna Rain"
Definition
Steve Reich
Term
"On the Transmigration of Souls"
Definition
John Adams; programmatic reference
Term
What is music? What should it do?
Definition
Transform suffering into beauty; Freedom of the mind, real-time art
Term
"From Hanover Square North at the End of a Tragic Day, the Voice of the People Again was Heard"
Definition
Ives; Lusitania Submarine sunk with 1,260 dead; theme "on the sweet bye and bye"
Term
Developing Variations
Definition
Reverse of theme and variations; theme develops are introduced throughout the piece
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