MUAR 211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Additive Synthesis, Sonata Form, Arch Form
25 Aug 2013
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Symbolist poetry: genre: pleasant, static topics, sound is more important than meaning, suggestive of images, settings, ideas and moods. 3 innovations: harmonic language, use of ensembles, creative form. Chromatic music, not analyzed in major/minor scale. Whole-tone scale: no half steps, no sense of tonic, static. Born in russia, but famous in paris. Wrote 3 ballets for ballet russe: firebird, petrushka, le sacre du printemps. The rite of spring: performed in 1913 in paris, choreographed by. Vaslav nijinsky, primitivism, folk melodies and percussive, example of exoticism. Depicts exotic artworks in a condescending manner. Polytonal: simultaneous juxtaposition of 2+ key areas in different parts of the orchestra. Commission: when a patron pays you to make a specific work. Reaction to ww1 and decimated european culture and nationalism. Melody reflects what the poem is saying. Atonal music: no tonic: emancipation of dissonance, use all 12 pitches of the equally tempered octave at any time. Alban berg: wozzeck and lulu (atonal opera)
