MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Rite Of Spring, Olivier Messiaen, String Quartet
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Genre: symphonic poem, ensemble: orchestra, style: impressionism, form: ternary form {a-ba"} (distinctive flute melody; an important formal marker, , soft) Igor stravinsky (le sacre du printemps, part ii, le sacrifice) style : neoclassicism. Genre : ballet score, ensemble : orchestra (many percussion), form : block form (brass instruments emphasis, complexly rhythmic, percussion, banging; russian-like) (octet for wind instruments, i. sinfonia) 2 bassoons, 2 turmpets (in c & a), two trombones (tenor & bass), (only wind instruments can be heard; {high pitch & trumpets}) Arnold schoenberg (pierrot lunaire, i mondesstrunken & viii, die nacht [expressionism] Genre: song cycle (comprised of art songs) or more like melodrama, text: german, ensemble: Mixed chamber ensemble of soprano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello and piano, although no two movements use the same instrumentation. (sounds deadly; declamatory) Genre : orchestral suite (orchestral art song), ensemble : orchestra & soprano, style : expressionism, Harmonic language : atonal, compositional method : 12-tone composition (story about a corrupt woman)
