Music Appreciation Pt 6 Ch 1-17 – Flashcards
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Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from
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folk and popular music from all cultures, European art music from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century, & the music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as
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a polychord.
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Among the unusual playing techniques that were widely used during the twentieth century is the ___, a rapid slide up or down a scale.
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glissando.
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Who were some of the composers that were stimulated by the folklore of their land.
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Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, & Charles Ives.
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A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as
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a tone cluster.
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The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
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atonality.
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One of the most striking elements of twentieth-century music that is used to generate power and excitement is
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rhythm.
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The use of two or more keys at one time is known as
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polytonality.
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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called
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ostinato.
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In twentieth-century music, melodies are often difficult to sing because
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of the wide leaps & rhythmic irregularity.
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One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was
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Nadia Boulanger.
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The best-known American ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was the
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NBC Symphony Orchestra.
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The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was
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the International Society for Contemporary Music.
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Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through
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the appearance of long-playing disks.
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The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's
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Amahl and the Night Visitors.
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Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the
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1920s.
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In order to drown the sense of tonality, Debussy
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turned to the medieval church modes, borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese music, & developed the whole-tone scale.
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The poem which inspired the Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun was written by
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Stéphane Mallarmé.
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At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 Debussy was strongly influenced by the
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performances of Asian music.
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Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande is an almost word-for-word setting of the symbolist play by
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Maurice Maeterlinck.
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As a result of his trips abroad, Debussy developed a lifelong interest in the music of
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Russia.
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The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a
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creature who is half man, half goat.
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Debussy's music tends to
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sound free and almost improvisational.
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A painter who went through a neoclassical phase, and who designed sets for Stravinsky's first neoclassical work, was
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Pablo Picasso.
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Neoclassical composers favored
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tonality.
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Characteristics of neoclassicism.
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balance, restraint, & clarity.
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Neoclassicism was a reaction against
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romanticism & impressionism.
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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by
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forms and stylistic features of earlier periods.
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A more appropriate term for "neo-classicism" might be
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neo-Baroque.
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The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet
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The Rite of Spring.
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In the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style, this time drawing inspiration from
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Anton Webern.
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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as
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neoclassical.
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Stravinsky's composition teacher was
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is scored for
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an enormous orchestra.
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Sergei Diaghilev was the director of the
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Russian Ballet.
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Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of
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neoclassicism.
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During the period from about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from
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eighteenth-century music.
