ART OF LISTENING, MUAR 211 STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM #3 (FINAL EXAM)—April 26th, 9:00 a.m. Composer Work title___ Naxos # / track Claude Debussy Nocturnes, no. 1, Nuages 8.553275, tr. 5 Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring, part I, i-iii 8.557501, tr. 1-3 Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire, no. 18, “Der Mondfleck” BCD9032, tr. 18 Bela Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 8.550261, tr. 7 2nd movement, Allegro *Pierre Boulez Le marteau sans maître, 4th movement CAP21581, tr. 4 Edgard Varèse Poème électronique (excerpt) not on Naxos György Ligeti Lux Aeterna COLCD125, tr. 18 *John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, 8.559042, tr. 6 No. 6 (Sonata no. 5) *Tan Dun Pipa Concerto, iv. Allegro vivace ONYX4027, tr. 4 Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians INNOVA678, tr. 1-2 *Arvo Pärt Cantate Domino canticum novum 8.557299, track 1 Josquin Desprez Kyrie from Pange lingua Mass [Exam #1] Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, 1st movement [Exam #1] Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, 1st movement [Exam #2] Frédéric Chopin Nocturne in F# Major, op. 15 no. 2 [Exam #2] *denotes a piece that is not included on the CDs that accompany the Listen textbook. TERMS LIST Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) impressionism (style term) Anton Webern (1883-1945) characteristics in painting Alban Berg (1885-1935) musical characteristics Wozzeck and Lulu (Berg’s operas) symbolist poetry Sprechstimme Claude Debussy (1862-1918) atonal music / atonality (harmony term) tone poem / symphonic poem 12-tone music / dodecaphonic / serialism pentatonic scale (term for a compositional process) whole-tone scale 12-tone row / series avant garde prime form World War I (1914-1918) retrograde World War II (1939-1945) inversion Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) retrograde inversion exoticism (style term) Béla Bartôk (1881-1945) primitivism (style term) ethnomusicology (an academic discipline) characteristics in painting Hungarian folk music Rite of Spring nationalism Ballet Russe / Russian Ballet palindrome (musical palindrome) first performance: Paris, 1913 (resulted in riot) musical symmetry polytonal choreography / choreographer dissonance/consonance ballet (ballet score) commission Pierre Boulez (b. 1925) pizzicato ‘Darmstadt School’ extended techniques integral serialism / total serialism neoclassicism (style term) (term for a compositional process) expressionism (style term) vocalise characteristics in painting & music graphic notation Second Viennese School quotation music electroacoustic music Genre review (cumulative) musique concrète aria four ‘classic’ manipulations of taped sound art song / Lied ‘filtering out’ portions of the sound ballet / ballet score ‘overdubbing’ (adding to the sound) cantata (can be sacred or secular) manipulation of playback speed chamber symphony (‘chamber’ anything) sound reversal (playing backwards) chant (Gregorian chant / plainchant / plain song) electronic music character piece additive synthesis concerto (i.e., solo concerto) subtractive synthesis concerto grosso sine wave / sine-wave generator double concerto (triple concerto, etc.) white noise / white-noise generator film score Edgard Varèse (1883-1965) Mass Poeme électronique oratorio György Ligeti (1923-2006) opera sound-mass composition piano quintet micropolyphony recitative John Cage (1912-1992) sonata 4'33" (1952) – know this piece with date! song cycle / cycle of art songs percussion ensemble string quartet prepared piano suite (orchestral suite / dance suite) aleatoric music / indeterminacy / chance music symphonic poem (tone poem) ‘chance operations’ symphony film score woodwind quintet ‘scoring a film’ Common ensemble terms designating number Two basic categories of film music: solo (1) quartet (4) septet (7) underscoring duet (2) quintet (5) octet (8) source music trio (3) sextet (6) nonet (9) four basic functions of movie music establishes mood of scene or characters Six style periods of Music History (cumulative) sets time and place of action Medieval (450-1450) ‘running counter to the action’ (earliest extant musical mss. circa 800AD) character establishment / development Renaissance (1450-1600) leitmotif (as related to movie music) Baroque (1600-1750) Tan Dun (b. 1957) (J. S. Bach died in 1750—know the date!) ‘New Wave’ of Chinese composers Classic (1750-1800 or so) pipa (traditional Chinese string instrument) Romantic (1800-1900 or so) stylistic pluralism / polystylism (style terms) 20th & 21st Centuries collage / pastiche Know at least two composers and one minimalism (style term) representative work of ‘classical / art’ music for postminimalism (style term) each of the six musical style periods, OTHER than Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) the required listening for the Final Exam. You do Steve Reich (b. 1936) not have to know the composers’ dates (except J.S. Bach’s death date) but you must spell their last names correctly to receive full credit.