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American Experimentalism artists
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Ives, Copeland
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Aria
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Reflection by soloists; vocal no. for solo singer and orchestra. A musical number in an opera, cantata, or oratorio.
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Avant-garde
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Term used in impressionist (early modernism) period to describe the most advanced style
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Ballet
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Ex. Rite of Spring
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Cadenza
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An improv. passage for a soloist in concerto, or sometimes in other works; usually at the end of a movement.
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Classical era artists
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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
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Closing movement
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Sonata or rondo form (fast/very fast tempo)
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Concerto
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A large composition for orchestra and solo instrument
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Contrasting Classical Era from Baroque and Romantic
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Musica is a little lighter, less serious than Baroque (Opera Buffa)

Concise use of form (growing audiences, symphony)

Growing importance of composer's self-expression

Increasing seriousness given to music in Romantic Era to mirror one's inner emotional life

The rise of the composer as a genius of originality
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Debussy
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Maintained characteristic of Romanticism
More emphasis on color and timbre, evocative and personal

New forms without melody
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Double-Exposition Sonata Form
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a type of sonata form developed for use in concertos (189); two expositions instead of exposition repeat (orchestra & solo) and development (conflict) → recapitulation (reconciliation)
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Ensemble
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Depict best of both recitative and aria: dialogie, action, and dynamic emotions. A musical number in an opera, cantata, or oratorio sung by 2 or more people.
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Ex. of idee fixed piece
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Berlioz's V - "Dream of a Witches' Sabbatch" - Symphonie Fantastique
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Example of an aria
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Ho capito - Mozart (DG)
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Example of an ensemble piece
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La ci darem la mano - Mozart (DG)
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Expressionism
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Early 20th century mvmt in art, music, and literature in Germany and Austria
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Expressionism artist
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Schoenberg - reflected fascination with Freud - subjective expression of inner turmoil - distorted and exaggerated musical features -
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Features of Classical Music
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Natural and pleasing variety
Natural - can be too simple, even boring

Pleasing variety can be an invitation to an unnatural complexity
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Idee fixe
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Used by Berlioz for a recurring theme used in all movements of one of his program symphonies - "a fixed idea"
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Influences on Classical Era
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Affected by Enlightenment, rise of comic oper, french rev. (Beethoven)
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Ives
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Many of his works on American subjects, quoting American fold songs, pop songs, ragtime - the 1st important nationalist composer
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March & Trio
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Type of classical minuet and trio - "funeral march" - Mahler Symphony No. 1 Mvmt III
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Minature
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Short song and piano pieces
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Minuet form
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Moderate tempo. a movement in sonata, symphony, etc., based on this triple meter dance.
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Modernism: IMpressionism
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A French artistic mvmnt of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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Motivic Transformation
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An artistic constructionstrongest when elements of the large0scale construction are found on the smallest scale (vice-versa) - Organic Growth - Beethovenuse instability as a motive
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Neoclassicism
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20th century mvmt involing a return to the style and form of older music, particularly 19th century music
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Opening movement form
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Sonata
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Opera
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Drama presented in music, with the characters singing instead of speaking.
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Post-Romantic Era
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Mahler

Affected by age of industrialism, nationalism and antisemitism
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Primitivism
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STravinksy, looking back to look forward - imagining irrational roots with increased awareness of native people
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Program Music
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Instrumental music with a specific story
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Recitative
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Dialogue and action (half-singing/half-reciting style of presenting words) - Follows speech rhythms closely
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Romantic Era Artists
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Chopin (early), Berlioz (late), Pucchini, Wagner, Brahms
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Romantic Era Music Features
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Increased freedom given to performed in musical time

Experimentation with harmony, more richness, and less specific relationships

Fascination with supernatural/macabre

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Romantic era: Rubato
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To steal (musical time) - free treatment of meter in performance - results in improvisatory push and pull of tempo.
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Rondo
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Form consisting of one main theme or tune alternating with other themes or sections.
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Scherzo
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Developed by Beethoven from minuet to use for movements in larger compositions (No. 5 III. Allegro)
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Second Viennese School
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Schoenberg attracted two star students: Alban Berg and Anton Webern
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Slow movement form
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Sonata, variations, rondo, other; slow/very slow
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Sonata
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Fast, moderate tempo. Developed by Classiacl composers and ysed in almost all 1st mvmts of their symphonies, sonatas, etc.

Slow intro -> exposition -> development -> recap. -> coda
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Sprechstimme
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A vocal style developed by Schoenberg - in between singing and speaking.
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String quartet
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Instrumental group with two violins, viola, and cello
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The Symphony
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A large orchestral piece in several movements.
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Theme and Variation Form
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a form consisting of a tune (the theme) plus a number of variations on it
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Typical Orchestra Movement Scheme
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Opening movement, slow movement, minuet (with trio), closing movement
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Typical forms
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sonata, rondo, minuet, theme andvariations
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Wagnerian Opera
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Known for the fusion of opera into a single work (no distinctions between aria, recitative, ensemble) and rxn against opera as pure entertainment.
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