Music 1010 test 3

Impressionism

Unaccnted floating feel, use exotic scales

Expressionism

Intense emotions use of dissonace

Serialism

Atonal Way of making all notes equal

Neoclassicism

Mexes Impressionism And expressionism Baroque and Classical forms

Neoromanticism

Return to tonality and dramatic expression

Minimalism

Based on the reptation of simple motifs =

This composer is famous for the ballet The Rite of Spring, which almost created a riot at its premier.

Stravinksy

This German composer is known for his tone poems such as Don Juan and Ein Heldenlaben

Strauss

This composer’s Symphony No. 5 was written as both a response to the communist Russian government and as an expression of the people’s suffering under its oppression.

Shostakovich

This Hungarian composer was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.

Bartok

This composer wrote works that captured the sound of the American west.

Copeland

This American composer received the Pulitzer Prize twice and the Rome Prize for his compositions.

Barber

This composer is known for his compositions for prepared piano and for his composition 4’33”, which challenged conceptions of what constitutes music

Cage

This avant-garde composer used a war game as the inspiration for his game piece Cobra, which is based on a system of rules that performers are to follow

Zorn

This American avant-garde composer was one of the first to be internationally recognized and blended American popular music, church music, and European art music

Ives

This pianist/composer is known for his Nocturnes, which are compositions inspired by the night

Chopin

This pianist/composer inspired hysterical reactions in his fans similar to modern reactions to the Beatles and Justin Bieber

Listzt

Symphony fantastique

Berlioz

Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mendelssohn

The Ring Cycle

Wagner

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

Chopin

Liebestraum No. 3 (Love Dream)

Liszt

Clair de lune

Debussy

This composer is said to have composed the first psychedelic symphony while under the influence of opium

Berlioz

The desire of a composer to express their country’s culture through their music is called

Nationalism

This composer founded the Leipzig Conservatory in 1843

Mendelssohn

This composer used leitmotifs to represent certain characters or themes in his large scale music dramas

Wagner

This French composer was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at age 23 and won the Prix de Rome at age 26

Berlioz

Select the characteristics associated with the Romantic Period 

Appreciation for nature, passion, and heroism

1820-1900 

1600-1750

1450-1600

1750-1820  

1900        

Romantic Period 

Baroque Period 

Renaissance Period       

Classical Period             

Modern Period