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History of Western Music 2
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Undergraduate 4
12/12/2012

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Name 3 creations of DEBUSSY
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Afternoon of a Faun, La Mer, Pelleas at Melisande
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Ravel's creations
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Daphnis et Chloe, Bolero, Mother Goose Suite, and String Quartet
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Satie is famous for what Genre?
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Neoclassicism
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Les Six
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Poulenc, Milhaud, and Honegger(most famous)
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Gershwin
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Rhapsody, Porgy, and American in Paris
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Schoenberg- How many periods, what are they. CREATED WHAT?
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3, Tonal, Atonal, and Serial.
CREATOR OF SERIALISM
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* How many pieces for orchestra
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5
Term
Who did he teach??
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BERG and WEBERN
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BERG studied with who
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Schoenberg
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Webern had how many pieces for String Quartet?
What is KLANGFARBENMELODIE???
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5
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Name Stravinsky's 3 ballets
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Firebird, Petrushka, and Rite of Spring
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What are Stravinsky's 3 periods?
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RUSSIAN, NEOCL, Serialism
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What did Stravinsky use(2 things)
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Octatonic Scale AND Polytonality
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What was Bartok's Ballet and 2 Operas?
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Miraculous Mandarin, and Bluebeard's Castle...Concerto for Orchestra.
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Bartok is what ethnicity?
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He is Hungarian.
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Bartok did music for what genres/ensembles?

 How many Quartets?

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Strings for Percussion and Celestra

6 String Quartets

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Name Britten's 3 Operas
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Billy Budd, Midnight Summer's Dream, and Peter Grimes

 

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Britten is famous for what type of works??
What famous OPERA did he write?
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Opera

Young Person's Guide to the orchestra

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Hindemith's one opera is?
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Mathis Der Maler
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Who had Symphonic Metamorphisis on Themes of Weber?
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Hindemith
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Who taught at Yale ?
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Hindemith
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Prokofiev had what famous ballets/operas?
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Peter and the Wolf, War and Peace, Romeo and Juliet

Lt Kije(film score)

 

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Shostakovich wrote how many symphonies and quartets?

He wrote was book?

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15 and 15

Testimony

 

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Name Ben. Britten's 3 serenades. What type are they?
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Prologue, Pastoral, and  Nocturne. ALL SONGS.

 

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Symphonic Metamorphisis is by? What type of song?
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Hindemyth, SYMPHONY
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A Survivor of Warsaw is by?? and what type of piece?
Definition
Schoenberg and VOICE AND ORCHESTRA
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Who did Symphony #10?
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Prokofiev
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Who did Variations on America??What type of piece?
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IVES

Orchestra

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Afternoon on a Faun is by who? what type of piece?
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Debussy, and SYMP POEM
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Who did WOSSECK?? What type of piece??
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BERG and OPERA
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Who did Sym. Opus number 21?? what type?
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Webern, and SYMPH
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What is impressionism?
Definition
is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists
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Mussorsky , Java and Bali Music, Whole Tone, and Pentatonic Scales were all influenced by??
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Debussy
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Ravel was influenced by what?
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Impressionism, NeoClassicism
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Name the 3 most famous Satie Composers
Definition
Poulenc, Milhaud, and Honegger
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Satie had what type of writing tendencies?
Definition
Anti-romantic and humorous
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Name Berg's 2 Operas and 2 other
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Wozzeck, Lulu

AND Lyric Suite, Violin Concerto

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Shostakovich wrote what operas?
Definition
LADY MACBETH and THE NOSE
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Who fell in and out of favor with the Soveit Gov?
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Shostakovitch
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IVES does what pieces?
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Concord Sonata, 4 symphonies, Holiday Symphony, Unanswered Question, 3 places in New England
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Ives is famous for what?
Definition
Anticipating Europeans with polytonality, graphic notation, polymeters, and TONE CLUSTERS
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Who is known as the 1st true American Composer?
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Charles Ives
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Henry Cowell is known for what piece and why?
Definition
The Banshee. Played on inside of piano.
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Henry Coweel taught who?
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John Cage and promoted music of IVES
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John Cage also had pieces that were?
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Sonatas and Interludes
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John Cage was the leader of what genre of music?
Definition
AVANT GARDE
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Messaien is what Nationality?

Known for using what animal for music?

Definition

FRENCH

Bird's calls

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Varese is what Nationality?

What pieces did he do?

Definition

Frech

Octandre, Ionization, Amerique

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Varese inspired what things???
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Electronic Music, Sonic Blocks, and ZAPPA
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Name Minimalist Composers
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Riech, Riley, and Glass
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What is Sprechtimme
Definition
Written pitches in the gliding notes of speech
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Klangfarbenmelodie
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Tone Color Melody: Changes of tone color are perceived as parallel to changing pitches
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Polytonality
Definition
Melody Line in one key and accom. in another key
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Stravinsky's first period pieces are
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Firebird, Rite, and Petruschka
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Stravinsky's 2nd period peices are
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Soldier's Tale, Symphony of Psalms, and Rake's Progress
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Stravinsky's 3rd Period has what pieces?
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Abraham and Isaac, Flood, and In Memorium Dylan Thomas
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Bartok never wrote what type of music?

Collected what type of music?

Definition

Serialism

Folk

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What is Gebrauchmusik?
Definition
Music for use- Enjoyable to play as well.
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Schoenberg's 1st period?
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Transfigured Night , Gurrelieder
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Schoenberg's 2nd period is?
Definition
Pierrot Lunaire, Book of the Hanging Gardens
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Schoenberg's 3rd Period is?
Definition
Moses and Aron, Ode to Napoleon, and Suite for Piano.
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