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