Chapter 26: Music Between the Two World Wars

Why did French composers turn to neoclassicism?

they allied it with emotional restraint and a rejection of Romantic German excess

The group of composers that sought to free French music from foreign domination were called BLANK.

Les Six

Les Six (Members)

Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Tailleferre

Les Six (Memorization Acronym)

“A Diva Has Many Perfect Tunes” ADHMPT

Milhaud’s La Création du monde features what foreign influences?

Ragtime and blues from the Americas

What characterizes New Objectivity?

music that was accessible and clear, with connections to the time

BLANK was a method developed by BLANK involving consonance moving toward tension and dissonance, followed by sudden resolution or slow moderation of tension. 

Harmonic fluctuation, Paul Hindemith

What did Nazis forbid music to be?

atonal, left wing, 12-tone, jazz-influenced, intellectual, dissonant, jewish

What musical elements were accepted as a part of socialist realism?

folk styles

What is Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky taken from?

Prokofiev’s own film score

What was the piece that got Shostakovich noticed by Stalin?

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

True or false: Shostakovich’s 5th symphony was a pure representation of socialist realism. 

one could interpret it either way

What nationality was Claude Champagne?

Canadian

How is the first movement of Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras influenced by Brazilian music?

it draws on styles of improvisation in Brazilian popular song

Varèse defined music as BLANK

organized sound

Henry Cowell had a special interest for music of:

non-Western countries

Gershwin's folk opera is called

Porgy and Bess

Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring was first written as a BLANK but is better known now as an orchestral suite. 

Ballet

The first movement of William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony is in BLANK form.

sonata