Composers
This composer had a pet lobster, only ate "white" foods, and founded his own religion.
Who is Erik Satie?
A _______________is a recurring musical theme appearing usually in operas but also in symphonic poems. It is used to reinforce the dramatic action, to provide psychological insight into the characters, and to recall or suggest to the listener extramusical ideas relevant to the dramatic event.
What is a leitmotif?
What is Japonisme?
What composer wrote in a refined French style, which drew primarily from earlier French composers and approached music more as sonorous form than as expression?
Who is Gabriel Fauré
Which work written by Ravel had a movement dedicated to each member of Les Apaches?
What is Mirroirs by Ravel?
Brahms loved the work of this composer, and helped him gain international fame. He was also inspired by the music of native Americans.
Who is Antonín Dvořák?
Who coined the term "Gesamtkunstwerk" and what is it?
Who is Richard Wagner?
It means "total work of art," and it refers to his concept of merging multiple art forms—music, drama, poetry, scenery, and dance—into one unified, comprehensive artistic creation, particularly within his music dramas.
At around age 12, this composer studied with Saint-Saëns.
Later in life he taught Maurice Ravel and Nadia Boulanger.
Who is Gabriel Fauré?
What composer wrote in a style influenced by the dance rhythms and modal melodies and harmonies of his native Norway?
Who is Edward Grieg?
The work ______________consists of 21 selected poems for speaking voice and chamber ensemble (piano, flute [also piccolo], clarinet [also bass clarinet], violin [also viola] and cello).
What is Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire?
These composers make up the "New German School."
Who are Wagner, Liszt, and Berlioz?
Strictly speaking, ____________ in music is merely the use of a pattern that repeats over and over for a significant stretch of a composition. It is often used interchangeably with the 12-tone system, but this is not exactly correct.
What is serialism?
These 5 composers make up "The Mighty Five"
Who are Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin
Stravinsky’s compositions between 1919 and 1951 are typically associated with
What is Neoclassicism?
This period is often referred to as his "neoclassical period" (roughly 1919–1951), which marked a shift away from the Russian folklore and lavish orchestration of his earlier works (like The Rite of Spring)
Her vocal music rarely contained recognizable text, as she strove for a sound both primordial and futuristic. To this end she used extended vocal techniques—from conventionally sung notes over a four-octave range to a wide variety of nonstandard performance sounds reminiscent of whining, hiccuping, laughing, and animal-like noises. Many of which can be heard in this work ______________.
What is Turtle Dreams by Meredith Monk?
Who was among the earliest female composers to gain an international reputation as a leading figure in American art music?
Who is Amy Beach?
__________________________ is a compositional technique where all twelve notes of the chromatic scale are utilized within a short span, creating a highly dense, atonal, or coloristic harmonic texture
What is chromatic saturation?
From 1908-1925, this modernist movement called _________ was largely centered in Germany and Austria, that abandons traditional beauty to explore deeply subjective, subconscious emotions—angst, psychosis, and inner turmoil.
What is expressionism?
Schoenberg’s chamber works borrow the principle of developing variation from this composer
Johannes Brahms
What work, often credited with establishing German Romantic opera, is unique because it places ordinary people on center stage, singing about their concerns, fears, and loves?
What is Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz
Beginning in the late 1850s, Wagner’s operas were influenced by what philosopher?
Who is Arthur Schopenhauer?
This is a one-movement programmatic work that comes from a variety of sources – poems, operas, etc.
What is a symphonic poem?
Wagner and Brahms are both inspired by Beethoven, but are often seen as "opposites." Can you name the four composers most often given the title "Wagnerian"?
What composer, along with Debussy, is often classified as an impressionist?
Who is Maurice Ravel?
Hector Berlioz’s ________________(1830) is a seminal five-movement program symphony subtitled "Episode in the Life of an Artist." Inspired by his intense obsession with Irish actress Harriet Smithson, it tells the story of a lovestruck artist who poisons himself with opium, resulting in hallucinations of murder, execution, and a witches' sabbath.
What is Symphonie fantastique?