MUSIC 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Ringo Starr
- Disguised the fact that he drew upon Russian and Lithuanian folk songs in composing
"The Rite of Spring"
- His music unfolds in a series of group dances scenes as a kind of huge suite
- Creates chords and melodic ideas based on the octatonic scale
- Piles/Stacks up several individual ostinato into an overwhelming mass of sound
Sergei Diaghilev
- impresario - a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas
- Director of Ballets Russe
- Produced Boris Godonav, an opera by Modest Mussorkski
- After Ballets Russe, gathered the talents of an emerging modernist avant-garde for new
productions
- Attended a concert by a young student of Rimsky Korsakov - Igor Stravinsky
Alban Berg
- Austrian Composer
- Part of Second Viennese School
- Student of Schoenberg
- Compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with 12-Tone Technique (all notes
given equal importance)
- Wrote "Wozzeck" using Expressionism
Charles Ives
- Practiced "ear-stretching," tone clusters, "piano drums," and the "Humanophone"
- Explored atonality, bi-tonality, polytonality, tone clusters, & aleatoric (random)
procedures
- The use of musical quotation is a stylistic fingerprint
- The Ivesian Aspect: combining any or all of these stylistic materials in a single
composition
- Wrote "The Unanswered Question" (tone poem)
Béla Bartók
- Hungarian Composer
