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9 Cards in this Set
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Afternoon of the Faun
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Debussy
(flute/trumpet solo, haunting) Faun = man/goat spends his day chasing women creatures through the forest Based off Mallarme’s poem A Solo flute – undulating line Add harp & horns B Clarinet & flute rapid, chromatic arabesque Theme in violins, horn, clarinet & violin A’ Solo flute, viola, oboe Coda Ostinato in harps Violins & horns “dabs” of sound in various instruments |
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Voiles
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Debussy
(Sails) (piano solo, haunting) A – Whole tone scale Descending parallel thirds Ostinato B – Harp-like glissandos – pentatonic scale Chords moving in parallel motion – pedal point A’ – Descending thirds return |
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Rapsodie espagnole – Habanera
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Ravel
(strings and horns, mystical) Originally for piano Habanera - An Afro-Cuban dance – slow seductive dance from Havana Later added 3 movements & arranged for orchestra Syncopated habanera rhythm and glissandos in string |
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Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
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Stravinsky
(soft horn(s) that sound distant) Premiere May 29, 1913 – caused a riot Partly the modernist choreography & costumes Partly the music Fantasia – 1940 Joffrey Ballet |
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Pierrot luniere
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Schoenberg
(violin with dissonant woman singer) Best known work Like expressionistic art Pierrot from Commedia del’ Arte tradition Moonstruck clown = alienated modern artist Female voice & chamber ensemble Sprechstimme – speech voice Text more spoken than sung Rhythms are exact but once hit pitch, slide away “Lunatic” Vision of Mary at the foot of the cross No repetition (through-composed) Text repeated but not the music Nothing allowed to become familiar With repeated hearings, acquires an eerie sort of beauty |
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Romeo and Juliet “Dance of the Knights”
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Prokofiev
(bass rhythm) Heavy dance music grows from low voices of orchestra Begins in duple meter, middle is in triple meter with light melody in flutes, returns to duple meter with oboe solo |
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Symphony No. 5
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Shostakovich
(fluttering, with loud deep horns and drums) Less-modernist composition because his 4th symphony had been denounced Some modernist ways are hidden though! Heavy percussion Some dissonance “Sliding harmonies” |
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Concerto for Orchestra IV “Broken intermezzo”
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Bartok
(high fluttering, then soft, high horns) “Concerto” for whole orchestra – each instrument gets solo 5 movements all based on folk melodies and rhythms Movement IV – Broken intermezzo Intermezzo is interrupted by contrasting music in the middle Uses pentatonic scale and irregular meters – these are folk music traits |
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Appalachian Spring “Simple Gifts”
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Copland
(soft horns, playful clarinet tune) Ballet in one act Tells a story Section 7 – “Simple Gifts” from traditional Shaker tune |
