Genres
Is Sousa's piece a standard or non-repetitive march?
What is Brahms rhythmic trademark?
Hemiola
briefly define progressive tonality
start in one key, end in another
what is the instrumentation of piano quintet
standard +piano
name a stylistic feature of ragtime
syncopation, uses march and trio form
Whats another way to say for symphonic poem? (hint: its the key term we use)
tone poem
Which composer do we link to tone poems?
Strauss
what does a 3 key exposition look like?
1T = tonic
2T = moving away (usually V)
Closing Theme (CT) = dominant
by 1850, is the public more focused on new or old music?
old - reviving old styles rather than new and bold (like Wagner for example... Brahms said yo chill dont reinvent the wheel)
what is tin pan alley?
Nickname for music publishing district in NYC
Made famous in hit shows, songs sold as sheet music, publishers and songwriters counted on recordings to popularize tunes
Songs were developed and categorized as a commodity for mass distribution
What is the genre of Amy Beach's work?
Symphony
Name a Gregory Spears Opera
Castor and Patience, Fellow Travelers, etc
what is a tone poem?
Single movement programmatic work that includes sections of contrasting character and tempo
Mahler: give a characteristic of his style - anything you can think of
(hint: I'm thinking about orchestra/instrumentation/texture)
Unlike Strauss, treats the orchestra like a chamber group. Rather than throw full orchestral texture at you, picks pairings of instruments
which piece features cake walk rhythms?
Will Marion Cook, In Dahomey (1903), “Swing Along”
What was the genre of the Mahler piece we covered?
Orchestral songs (cycle)
What is the key term related to Mahlers style? (think about tonality perhaps...)
progressive tonality
Give a brief definition of: developing variation
initial kernal of a theme, everything is based on that
what happens in the variations of DQ?
Variation 1: windmills, DQ falls off his horse
Variation 2: "sheep battle"
Name a contrast between the two performances of maple leaf rag we listened to
Jelly Roll Morton’s performance of Maple Leaf Rag Omits the repetitions of the first 2 strains to keep the piece under the 3-4 min limit for 78rpm records
Joplin's is played on the piano roll
What does Brahms do to the exposition of piano quintet? What's that key term called
3 key exposition
What was Beach's Gaelic Symphony in response to? Who was that composer/name of piece
Dvorak New World Symphony
Break Strain
- describe it or link the piece
A device used in marches and piano rags to introduce a contrast in style and break the flow of the composition with a loud and intense musical statement
Sousa - Stars and Stripes
March - trio - break strain - trio
How can you remember what don quioxte looks like if you got it as a score id?
despite the title, MANY german markings
who were the fisk jubliee singers and what did they sing?
Fisk University: HBCU in Tennessee
Concert arrangements in 4-part harmony
Promoted spirituals in US and England during 1870s (running out of money, went on concert tour… wildly successful)