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Quiz Review: Late Romantics and Early Modernism in Music - Prof. Paul J. Swantek, Study notes of Music

A quiz review covering the late romantics and early modernism periods in music. It includes information on various composers, their compositions, and musical styles. Topics include tchaikovsky, nationalism, brahms, mahler, debussy, stravinsky, schoenberg, and others. The document also covers the shift towards realism in opera and the emergence of avant-garde music.

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Part One—Late Romantics

Tchaikovsky

  • (^) Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet
    • (^) Which composer introduced the form which inspired Tchaikovsky in this example? What is the form? Hungarian composer. Program Music
    • (^) How many main themes?
      • (^) Hymn, Vendetta, Love
  • (^) Ballets
    • (^) Swan Lake
    • (^) Sleeping Beauty
    • (^) Nutcracker
  • (^) Six Symphonies

Opera

  • (^) As in literature and visual arts, what quality was reflected in operas of the late Romantic period? - (^) Shift in opera towards realism, literature. - (^) Ex: Carmen by Bizet

Brahms

Moves to Vienna from Hamburg. As this physical move takes place, he begins to move in a new direction musically. For what do we know Brahms, in terms of his use of musical forms? Classical form (use older idea)

  • (^) Four Symphonies
  • (^) Violin Concerto
    • (^) In what form is the third movement written?
      • (^) Allegro
    • (^) For whom was the Violin Concerto written?
      • (^) Joseph Joachim

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Part 2

Early Modernism

  • (^) Three Avant-garde composers, early modernism
    • (^) Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg
  • (^) Claude Debussy – what did he compose?
    • (^) Clouds. From France
    • (^) Considered an Impressionist. In what art form do we see the first examples of Impressionism? - (^) Painting
  • (^) Igor Stravinsky – what did he compose?
    • (^) Rite of Spring
  • (^) Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot lunaire….name of Schoenberg’s invention, half-singing, half-speaking (spelling counts) - (^) Eternally sad Clown (pierrot lunaire) - (^) Sprechstimme. Night and The Moonfleck
  • (^) When did the modernist work of these composers appear?
    • (^) Late 1800’s – up to WWI
  • (^) Wozzeck is Wagnerian in what ways?
    • (^) Wagnerian in use of leitmotivs , and Lacks Arias.
  • (^) Berg was part of what artistic movement that focused on writing increasingly complex and emotional music touching on the nightmarish. - (^) Expressionism
  • (^) Style of Violin Concerto
    • (^) Serialism

Alban Berg

Serialism

  • (^) 12-tone system of composition
  • (^) Example?
    • (^) Berg’s Violin Concerto

Richard Strauss

  • (^) What did he write?
    • (^) Salome

Maurice Ravel

  • (^) Nationality? French
  • (^) Orchestrated which famous Russian composer’s Pictures at an Exhibition? - (^) Mussorgsky
  • (^) Other famous works?
    • (^) Piano Concerto in G, Boléro
  • (^) Maurice Ravel's compositional style can be considered to be between which two “isms”? Neo- Classicism & Impressionism

Aaron Copland

  • (^) Nationality? American
  • (^) Collaborated with Martha Graham
    • (^) Who was she?
      • (^) creator of “modern dance”, a purely American art form
  • (^) What important ballet did he write about pioneers in Pennsylvania? - (^) Appalachian Spring