Piano lit quiz 3

Janacek major piece

On an Overgrown Path

Janacek style

wrote more operas and chamber music, more lyrical lines and chorale texture, contrasts with angular short motives (czech speech rhythm), dynamic and tempo extremes

Szymanowski pieces

Etudes op. 33, four etudes op. 4, 20 mazurkas op. 50, 2 mazurkas op. 62

Szymanowski early style

Chopin and Scriabin influenced use for harmony and emotion, Strauss and Reger influenced German High Romanticism and chromaticism

Szymanowski middle period style

shimmering French textures, complex harmonies, powerful climax

Szymanowski late period style

Polish nationalsim (folk music), driving rhythm, dissonance

Bartok pieces

3 Piano Concerti, Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Suite op. 14

Bartok sound style

counterpoint, canons, melodic inversions, more linear

Bartok harmony style

polymodality, modal scales, focus on certain intervals, likes dissonance

Bartok melodic style

simple melodies, repeated notes, octave displacement

Bartok rhythmic style

irregular meters and complex rhythmic patterns

Hungarian composer

Dohnanyi

Romanian composer

Enesco

Polish

Bacewicz

Czech

Husa

Armenian

Babajanyan

Ukrainian

Barvinsky

spanish style

moorish and gypsy traditions, guitar sounds, french style cross-polinates with spanish

flamenco

forceful, aggressive rhythmic framework, passionate contrasts, strong emotions

copla

free expressive singing, spanish verse

Cante jondo

deep profound singing, themes of death religion and anguish

Felipe Pedrell

important teacher who initiated Spanish nationalist movement in music, father of spanish music

Albeniz, Granados, de Falla, Mompou country of origin

Spain

Villa-Lobos country of origin

Brazil

Ginastera country of origin

Argentina

de Falla piano works

Nights in the Garden of Spain, Harpsichord concerto

Villa-Lobos piano works

Homenagem a Chopin, Alma brazileria

Mompou piano works

Cants mágics, Charmes

Ginastera

12 Preludios americanos, Piano Concerto 1 op. 28

Iberia how many pieces

4 books, 3 pieces each (12)

Iberia style

Andalusian + Gypsy style, Copla and Cante jondo sections, Guitar sounds and pitch bending, imitation of castanets and flamenco

Iberia specific things

cross hands, wide dynamic range, extreme notation detail, triplets, widespread use of modes and remote tonalities

Goyescas context

Majo is a lower class person in elaborate outfit, Goya culture

Schmitt

won a Prix de Rome, wide range of style, fell out bc of political issues, outstanding orchestrator

Martin

Swiss musician, personal 12-tone technique, driving rhythm, lean textures

Dutilleux

very self-critical, didn’t publish much

Lili Boulanger

sister of Nadia Boulanger

Messiaen

self-taught pianist, Catholic mysticism, student of organists

Messiaen piano works

Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus, Oiseaux exotiques, Catalogue d’oiseaux

Messiaen musical language

Synaesthesia, birds, numerology+mysticism, modes of limited transposition, additive, chant-like, non-retrogradable, segments