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Terms III
Romantic through Twentieth Century
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Music
Graduate
08/10/2012

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grand opera
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middle class spectacle
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bel canto
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Rossini lyrical singing
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music-drama
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Wagner orchestra supercedes vocal, Gesamtkunstwerk, Greek tragedy, rejects Italian opera
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character piece
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short piano suggests mood
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program music
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tells story
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Otello
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Rossini opera based on Shakespeare, later Verdi
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Symphonie fantastique
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Berlioz programmatic symphony devoted to Harriett Smithson, whom he later married and divorced, idee fixe
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Symphonie fantastique mvt. 1
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Reveries - passions
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Symphonie fantastique mvt. 2
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A ball (waltz)
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Symphonie fantastique mvt. 3
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Scene in the fields
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Symphonie fantastique mvt. 4
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March to the scaffolds (guillotine chord)
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Symphonie fantastique mvt. 5
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Witches Sabbath
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rubato
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uneven tempo
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cabaletta
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aria more animated after cantabile
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Leitmotiv
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Wagner character motive
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etude
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piano exercises for teaching, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy
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orchestral lied
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voice and orchestra, Mahler, Strauss
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Die Schone Mullerin
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Schubert first song cycle, falls in love with millers daughter along brook
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Italian opera
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Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, arias, emotion
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Verisimo
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opera featuring everyday people, post-romantic opera tradition more natural
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idee fixe
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Berlioz recurring theme Berlioz
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nationalism
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unity of citizens and traditions through music
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The Ring Cycle
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Wagner music-drama (Der Ring des Nibelungen): Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung
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impressionism
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French painting Monet, Ravel and Debussy music
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serialism
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12-tone notes and rhythms
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atonality
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no tonic, Shoenberg, 12-tone
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Klangfarbenmelodie
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"sound color melody" tone-color change with different instruments, Schoenberg
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musique concrete
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electronic music using recordings and/or synthesizers, does not require interpretation of notated music
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Sprechstimme
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expressionistic half-speaking half-singing voice as in Pierrot Lunaire
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The Rite of Spring
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Stravinsky ballet music Diaghalev, primitive sacrifice of girl
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Wozzeck
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atonal opera Berg expressionistic Buchner play
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Music for Srings, Percussion and Celesta
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Bartok 1936
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twelve tone music
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aka dodecaphonic, systematic ordering by Schoenberg, tone rows, prime
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neoclassicism
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aesthetic trend rejects emotion of Romantic period 1910-1950, traditional forms, includes New Objectivity
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minimalism
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late 20th C, Reich, Glass, Adams, reiteration of short phrases
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biotonality/polytonality
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Chales Ives melody and harmony in different keys, also Bartok and Stravinsky
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total serialism
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duration, intensity, timbre applied to 12-tone techniques
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aleatory music
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chance music, John Cage, sounds occur randomly, Some of the decisions normally made by a composer are left to chance.
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Gebrauchsmusik
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Hindemith "music for use" played by amateurs, or composed for a specific event or purpose
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New Objectivity
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1920's movement against the emotional intensity and complexity of the late Romantics and the expressionism of Schoenberg and Berg, accessibility
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L'histoire du soldat
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Stravinsky ballet with small ensemble of 6 instruments and percussion, dance movements
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Pierrot Lunaire
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21 song cycle with speaker and small ensemble, atonal Sprechstimme Schoenberg
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expressionism
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Schoenberg/Berg in music. Painting distorted
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primitivism
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Rite of Spring, deliberate representation of the crude and uncultured
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pointilism
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painting Seurat, Klangfarbenmelodie, tone-to-tone relationships ie Webern one note on an instrument points of sound
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microtonality
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semi tones, quarter tones seen in Ives, Debussy observed Gamelan
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La Mer
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Debussy orchestral work 3 movements
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Mikrokosmos
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Bartok piano collections, progressive in 6 volumes
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