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Voiles (Composer?)

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Claude Debussy

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Voiles

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-short piece for solo piano -timbre is muted, melodies appear and disappear without development or conclusion -harmonies unresolved and the rhythm never establishes any strong sense of meter -impressionish- quality of suggesting rather than stating -reflects growing globalization (javanese music) -fragments of themes -most of the work is written at the level of piano or pianissimo -no fixed meter -whole tone scale- an ordered arrangement of notes that together make up a kind of palette for melodies -diatonic scale- western that consists of combination of whole steps and half steps -non directional -whole tone and pentatonic -dissonance- notes that clash vs. consonance (notes that go well together)

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The Unanswered Question (Composer?)

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Charles Ives

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The Unanswered Question

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-programmatic work for the chamber orchestra -three contrasting instruments/timbres- strings, solo trumpet, wind quartet -layered texture -tonal (harmonic center of gravity) vs. atonal harmony (none)

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Columbine (Composer?)

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Arnold Schonberg

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Columbine

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-atonality, sprechstimme -music captures pain itself, not beautiful -expressionism a broad artistic movement thatt flourished in music, etc.--> gives voice to the unconscious to make apparent dark emotions -soprano sings halfway through song and voice -sprechstimme- sonder hits but doesn't sustain precise pitches (similar to recitative -epressing anguish

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The Rite of Spring (Composer)

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Igor Stravinsky

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The Rite of Spring

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-ballet, polytonality, metrical irrgularity -tells a story through movement -often more than one tonal center- polytonal -pentatonic scale/melodies -ostinato-single rhythm is repeated over and over again -scenario through-composed- very little reputation of music between individual sections

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Maple Leaf Rag (Composer?)

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Scott Joplin

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Maple Leaf Rag

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-syncopation, sectional form, compound melodies, ragtime -ragtime- emphasizes rhythmic syncopation, musical accents that occur off the beat -syncopation-a type of rhythm in which the notes run against the regular pulse of the musical meter, with accents on beats other then the ones usually accented -a type of syncopation in which patterns of twos occurs at the same time as patterns of threes -sectional form juxtaposition of discrete units of music to create the complete piece

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Terraplane Blues (composer?)

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Robert Johnson

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Terraplane Blues

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Twelve-bar blues -blue notes- a pitch performed flatter than standard -timbre of vocal blues -blues-uses flattened pitches in its melodies and tells first person stories of hard knocks and love gone wrong -derived from african american performance traditions

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Cotton tail (composer?)

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Duke Ellington

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Cotton Tail

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big band jazz -big band instrumentation swing rhythms -standard song from choruses -jazz evolved out of many styles, including ragtime and blues, heavy use of rhythmic features like syncopation and swing rhythms -rhythm changes- circle of fifths progression and bass line by half steps and sequence -voicings-spacing of the individual notes in a chord, and a close voicing is one in which many individual notes of a chord as possible are played within the same topic -section a group of instruments or voices with similar timbres or the same role within the ensemble - call and response:brass and then he saxophone answers -swing-fast nteos alternate between slightly longer and slightly short durations -AABA

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Ornitholoogy (composer?)

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-bebop jazz- for listening, not dancing. smaller ensembles, more emphasis on virtuosic improv - jazz combo instrumentation, improvisation, soloist vs. rhythm section -opens with an attention-grabbing drum solo -three different melodic segments -leading instrument changes with each of the five major sections/choruses

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Piano Study in Mixed Accents (composer?)

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Ruth Crawford

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Piano Study in Mixed Accents

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-solo piano music -atonality, register as a structural element -toward serialism new ground for american women composers -absence of a tonal center -notes are of equal value -no sense of meter or fixed pattern -monophonic texture -register-teh range in which the music is presented

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Concertino for harp and orchesta, finale (composer)

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Germaine Tailleferre

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Concertino for harp and orchesta, finale

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neoclassicism, periodic phrase structure, transparency of texture, rondo form -modernism -neoclassicism- a style of composition in the years after WW1 that wa modern but drew on older forms -glissando- a continuous melodic motion up or down that goes by so fast we almost cannot hear the individual notes -sense of transparency by giving roles to the trumpet and flute -ABA'CA\"B'A\"

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A Black Pierrot (Composer?)

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William Grant Still

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A Black Pierrot

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-blues inflections, chromatic harmony, through- composed form, art song -text by Langston Hughes -chromatic harmony- incorporates many more notes than occur naturally in a scale. play all the half steps -through section- a form in which each section has its own music, with very little or no repetition between sections -voice from a low to high register

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Hoes Down (Composer?)

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Aaron Copland

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Hoe-Down

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-populist modernism, traditional folk tunes, open orchestration and texture, rondo form, nationalism -composed at a dancer's request -uses actual folk tunes that are rhythmically vigorous and cover a wide range -full range of registers from highest to lowest -traditional fiddle tune called \"Bonaparte's retreat\" -timbre: small ensembles within the orchestra -varies orchestration -energetic, duple meter -rindo form- a form in which an operating theme returns repeatedly over the course of the movement, interspersed with contrasting ideas

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Concerto for Orchestra (composer?)

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Bela Bartok

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Concerto for Orchestra

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-orchestration, instruments of the orchestra, symmetrical form, folk melodies, ethnomusicology, orchestral virtuosity -wind instruments in succession including woodwinds and middle section that highlights brass instruments -reflects Eastern European folk music idioms -loose, carefree nature to the -ABA'

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Tonight

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Leonard Bernstein

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Tonight

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-additive form, ensembles, broadway musical -spoken drama with lots of singing -operetta -used jazz in its orchestration and its syncopated rhythms -Representative melodies: hate and love -intriduces characters one by one and then brings them all together -two basic melodies -homophonic --> trio-->quintet

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Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes

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John Cage

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Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes

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-Piano music, prepared piano, binary form, pitched vs. unpitched percussion, old instruments, new timbres -alters sound by attaching objects to strings -blend conventional and unconventional sounds -periodic ohrase structure- a musical structure in which antecedent and con-sequent phrase units make up a larger whole -binary form- a musical structure consisting of two repeated halves AABB -theme ssssl-->lss-->

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Kebyar Ding III, Oncang-oncagan

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Gamelan Gong Kebyar of Bellman, Bali

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Kebyar Ding III, Oncang-oncagan

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-gamelean music -timbre, ostinatom connection to minimalism, harmony -vibraphones- a percussion instrument similar to the xylophone with resonators -TODAY TAUGHT BY USING A NUMerical notation -ostinatos- repeated musical patterns -high pitched gender -dynamics vary widely and change along with tempo to create different sections -static , almost meditative sound

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Knee Play 1

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Philip Glass

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Knee Play 1

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-opera, drama without a plot, variation form, ostinato -minimalism- a style in which a brief musical idea or group of ideas is repeated and varied incrementally over a long span of time, with a relatively slow rate of change -an operas with very little singing and no plot -glass operas, has no plot -organ and mixed voices - ostinato -altered rhythms, divided voicese, added spoken voices

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School Day

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Chuck Berry

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School Day

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Rock n roll, shuffle rhythm, electric guittar solos, 12-bar blues -at several points the melody consists of a single note or chord repeated many times. --> excitement -rhythmic patterns come to a sudden and dramatic stop -shuffle groove- a mid tempo rhythmic pattern, typically a quadruple meter in which each beat is subdivided into 3 pulses -stop time- punctuate the end of individual sections -anarcrusis- pick up notes -electric lead guitar -strophic song - (short intro, 6 verses, and a guitar solo

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Fight The Power

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Public Enemy

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Fight the Power

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Hip Hop, sampling, quotation and references, scratching, hip hop beats -digital technology -for film director Spike Lee -sampled- to record music or sound form an existing album - political tone set from Dr. King -dynamic and pitch build up for little, then drop -extensive opening section- spoken prologue -expanding verses- 3 -instrumental breaks -epilogue- - a basic pulse -syncopation

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A la Par

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Tania Leon

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A la Par

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-Music for percussion ensemble -tonal vs. atonal elements, percussion instrumenets -post-modernism-modern and traditional are combined -repeated melodic-rhythm ic figure in the bass line form cuban dance, otherso european modernism -male and female rhythmic lines

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The Walls Converge

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John Williams

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The Walls Converge

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Film music, Diegetic, non-diegetic -supports the action and dialogue of the film -diegetic-music in a film that originates from the scene in the film itself -non-diegetic- film music that is added to the scene from the outside for purposes of heightening the mood or feeling of a scene -each character has a distinctive melodic icon -harmony: sparse and dissonant -timbre used for mood- low and dark to bright

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On this Date Every Year

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Corey Dargel

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On this Date Every Year

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-song, postmodernism, digital looping, amplification -postmodernism- a style in music and the other arts, modern and traditional elements are combined -uses basically tonal harmonic language and combines it with the kind of dense polyphony -only 1 signer and 1 violinist -test is a series of irregular units with no consistent pattern of meter or rhyme -5/4 meter

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Nasence

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Austin Wintory

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Nasence

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-Video game music, building textures, varieties of timbres, music and media -no words or story..creates tone -nasence means birth -atypical combo of instruments to achieve an effective combination of timbres -zill- ringing percussion sound accenting the first beat of every measure -melody appears 3 times -sense of drama that increases form beginning to end

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