MUSC 10C Quiz 1

“Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst,”, Salome

Richard Strauss, Opera, 1900s

Conclusion of Act I, The Wreckers

Dame Ethel Smyth, Opera, 1900s

No. 1 “Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n”, Kindertotenlieder

Gustav Mahler, Lied, 1900s

No. 1 Nuages, Nocturnes

Claude Debussy, Tone Poem, 1890s

Mvt. 1 Prélude à la nuit, Rapsodie espagnole

Maurice Ravel, Orchestral Suite (or prelude), 1900s

Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5

Serge Rachmaninoff, Prelude, 1900s

Vers la flamme, Op. 72

Alexander Scriabin, Tone Poem, 1910s

No. 3 De Podophthalma, Embryons desséchés

Erik Satie, Character Piece, 1910s

Wade in de Water

Harry Burleigh, Spiritual, 1920s

Tritone

Interval of a diminished fifth/augmented fourth, very dissonant, used in the Conclusion of Act I of the Wreckers

Ostinato

Continually repeated pattern

Salome

Daughter of Queen Herodias, performs a dance for King Herod and asks for the head of Jochanann on a platter and then proceeds to kiss his severed head

Seguidilla

Spanish dance in triple meter, used in Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole

Lied

German art song, generally for voice and piano or voice and orchestra, uses German poetry

Piano Roll

A continuous roll of paper with punched holes that operate a self-playing mechanical instrument known as a player piano

Song Cycle

A group of individual songs designed to be performed in sequence as a single cohesive artistic unit

Avant-Garde

Radical departure from convention, tends to be irreverent/oppositional

Inversion

The rearrangement of notes in a chord, interval or melody so that a different note sits at the bottom instead of the original root note

Character Piece

Short work with descriptive title, De Podophthalma from Embryons Desséchés is an example

Canon (Of Works)

A body of valued musical works, a classical canon was established by the late 19th century

Call and Response

Alternating between soloist and a larger group

Aesthetics

Philosophy of art/music

Chorus/Refrain (Vocal Music)

Text and music recurring together

Impressionism

Emphasis on light, subject often hazy, visible brush strokes, eyes doing some of the blending work

Syncopation

A musical technique that places stress or emphasis on normally weak beats of offbeats instead of strong downbeats

Symbolism

Sensory appeal over meaning, dream-like, suggests rather than described directly

Spirituals

A type of religious folk song created and first sung by enslaved African people in the American South

Planing

Intervals or chords moving in parallel motion without obeying rules of voice leading or keeping within a single key signature

Fisk Jubilee Singers

A touring group from Fisk University that sang spirituals

Octatonic Scale

An eight note scale made up of an alteration of half steps and whole steps with no clear leading tone or tonic, used in Nuages from Nocturnes

Pentatonic Scale

A five note scale with no half steps (Do, Re, Mi, So, La, Do), associated with folk and art music from Asia, used in Nuages from Nocturnes

Symphonic Poem/Tone Poem

Piece with descriptive title from other art form

Rotational Form

A series of musical motives cycled through multiple times in similar order; created circular feel

Orchestra Suite

A collection of individual instrumental pieces played by a full orchestra in a concert setting

Ethel Smyth

English composer and suffragette, composed The Wreckers

Richard Strauss

German composer, conductor and instrumentalist, composed Salome

Gustav Mahler

Bohemian-Jewish composer and conductor, composed Kindertotenlieder

Claude Debussy

French pianist and composer, influenced by Japanese and Indonesian music, composed Nocturnes

Maurice Ravel

French composer, pianist and orchestrator, composed Rapsodie espagnole

Serge Rachmaninoff

Russian pianist, composer and conductor, heavily influenced by Tchaikovsky and Korsakov, composed Prelude in G Minor

Alexander Scriabin

Russian pianist and composer, synesthetic and very harmonically different from other composers at the time, composed Vers la flamme

Erik Satie

French pianist and composer, avant-garde, composed Embryons desséchés

Harry T. Burleigh

American composer, singer, musician, and music editor, composed Wade in de Water