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classical music
romantic era-modern era
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Music
Undergraduate 3
05/06/2010

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Music for 18 musicians
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written by Reich, sounds like the song by Sufjan Stephens, it is minimalism
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Tristan and Isold
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written by Wagner, it is Romantic. Came up with the Tristan chord, which is holding out on the tonic chord
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Five Orchestral Pieces
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Written by Webern, it is very short, compact, high intensity started minimalism
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Eusibius
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Schumann's made up character who is nicer and more controlled, the song sounds pleasant
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The Valkryie
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Written by Wagner,
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Samiel
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the devil character in Der Freischutz
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To the Victims of Hiroshima
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Peice by Penderesky, it is a threnety which is a mourning poem
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Serialism
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Total Control (Babbitt, Schoenburg
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Aleatory
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Chance (Cage, Penderescky
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Tone Cluster
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bunch of notes at once
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Ancient Voices
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Peice by George Crumb, who is partly aleatory, partly extended techniques. He uses a prepared piano
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Symphany number 6
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Beethoven, it is a dance and then a thunderstorm ruins it
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Romeo and Juliet
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it is by Tchaikovsky, it has a love theme and a vendetta theme
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Der Freishutz
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written by Weber, Max is the good guy, it is an opera. It is where the wolf's glen comes into play
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Florestein
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Schummann's feisty temperamental side of his criticisms, the song is faster and more edgy
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Gesamptkunstwerk
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collect work of art, wagner is the composer that it applies to
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Leit Motive
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recurring programmatic units of music in Wagner's operas
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Erlkonig
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Written by Schumann, it has piano for the running horse, voice is narrator, erlkonig, son, father
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Radical Composers
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Liszt, Wagner, Berioz
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Conservative Composers
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Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn
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Idee fixe
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Recurring motive or theme that portrays the beloved, it is done by Berlioz
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Know the parts of a sonata
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3 stages of Beethoven
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Early, Middle, Late
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Col Legno
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Berlioz had violins turn bows upside down, sounds like skeletons
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Afternoon of a Faun
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Written by Debussy, provocative, about a faun (sex devil)
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Rite of Spring
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Written by Stravinsky, caused a riot (riot of spring) because it is bitonal (2 different keys)
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Nocturne in F#
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written by chopin, came up with a rumato (fluxing of the tempo) thank you very much a chopin robato,
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