!890 - World War 1 Opulence, decadence. Future is greater than present which is better than past. It is the overarching umbrella that defines this musical period.
100
What is verismo
Realism (associated with Verdi and Wagner)
100
What is neoclassicism
Drawing from "classic" (Greek) art. It was an anti modernist response. Associated with Shastakovich
100
In a reading, this person really advocates absolute music and disagrees with programmatic music. He used melody to convey emotions instead of using words or lyrics.
Who is Mahler
100
Contrafact
What is a new tune over a borrowed harmonic progression. Example is Girl Crazy "I got rhythm" in Cottontail by Duke Ellington
200
What is expressionism
Distorting reality to gain an emotional effect. Expressing the inborn, instinctive parts of yourself. Subjective and subconscious. Examples: early Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky
200
What is Sergei Dhiagilev
Impressario associated with Ballet Russe and Ravel and Stravinsky.
200
What is transcendentalism
American strain of thought articulated by Emerson, trust intuition. Intuition brings you closer to God.
200
Whose reading was associated with RAPM?
What is Prokofiev
200
What is 12 tone system
All tones used the exact same number of times. No tonal center, associated with Schoenberg.
300
What is Impressionism.
Manipulates tone and harmony to draw emotion out of people. Uses symbolism and sensualism. Example: Faure, Debussy, Ravel
300
What is mystic chord
From Scriabin's 5th symphony. Called this because it encompasses transcendence and he called it the "chord of pleroma"
300
What is exoticism
Rhythms, melodies, instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far - off lands/ ancient times. Associated with Puccini
300
Whose reading was about American music and the importance of establishing and American musical identity
What is George Gershwin
300
What is Klingfarbenmelodie
little pinpoints of melody between different instruments in the orchestra. Associated with Webern
400
What is totalinarianism
Power held by elite or independent forces a single idealogy or worldview. Propaganda. Example: Soviet Russia
400
What is Entarte Musik
Decadent or degenerate music. Non - arian music, anything by Jews communists, Americans, slavonic origins, anyone doing atonality or serialism.
400
RAPM
What is Russian Association of Proletariat musicians. A group established by the soviet government that took over the conservatories and required songs to be mass songs with propaganda
400
What is Satie
extremely ironic because of the names of his pieces and he ignored bar lines and tempos. Also associated with furniture music which is background music that would not really be listened to (established by Milhaud)
400
4 characteristics of Jazz
What are:
1. syncopation
2. improvisation
3. non traditional harmony
4. grammatically incorrect
500
What is neoprimitivism?
evokes premodern history or cultures. Stravinksy represents this with polyrhythms syncopations, ostinatos, burtality, and folk music. Example: Stravinksy's Rite of Spring
500
What is "Emancipation of dissonance"
Get rid of predictable stuff. No functional harmony, atonality/ pantonality. Associated with Schoenberg.
500
What is Socialist realism
A type of art under governmental influence at the time. New art was required to be communal, comprehensible, and nationalistic
500
What is surrealism
Release the subconscious, surprise unexpected juxtapositions. First time music is considered this creative (potential of subconscious). Associated with Satie.
500
October 1917.
What is Bolshevik Revolution (russian revolution). When the countrys name changed to USSR until 1991 when power failed and separated. (union of soviet socialist republic). Led to the Great Purge (1930s)