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Other Approaches to Music Before WWII
Other Approaches to Music Before WWII
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Undergraduate 1
11/28/2011

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Term
Characteristics of Ive's music?
Definition
American subject matter and materials – hymns, band music, pop songs, etc.
Experimental
Quotation
Very dissonant
Collage
Term
Second Orchestra Set (“The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People’s Outdoor Meeting”) was by Whom? Characteristics?
Definition
Ivez dawg.

Collage: fragments of melodies overlaid and juxtaposed (dance, march, hymn, ragtime)
Main melody comes from old hymn “I Hear Thy Welcome Voice”
Ends with whole tone scale
Term
The Unanswered Question was by whom?
Definition
Charles Ives
Term
What is different about the Unanswered Question?
Definition
Requires two conductors
Three distinct, independent levels of music
1 String choir playing consonant harmonies
2 Dissonant woodwinds
3 Trumpet call
Term
Which composer that we've studied uses more traditionally Classical ideas and form?
Definition
Ravel
Term
Piano Concerto in G, Mvt I is composed by - ?
Definition
Ravel
Term
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta is by - ?
Definition
Bartok
Term
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Mov. II is in what form?
Definition
Sonata
Term
Appalachian Spring is by - ?
Definition
Copland dude.
Term
Who choreographed Appalachian Spring?
Definition
Martha Graham. She's the Martha who isn't in jail.
Term
The music in the movie Alexander Nevsky was composed by who(m)?
Definition
Sergei Prokofiev
Term
Who is Nadia Boulanger?
Definition
Famous composition teacher, who taught many of the great American composers, including Copland.
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