MUAR 211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Recitative, Tan Dun, Oratorio
10 Jul 2016
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Terms list impressionism[style term] in painting: monet, renoir: soft pastels, lack of details. Musical characteristics symbolism [a style term in poetry not in music]/ symbolist poetry: focuses on pleasant and evocative sounds of words. Prelude to an afternoon of a faun. Tone poem /symphonic poem[genre] ternary form = a b a pentatonic scale whole-tone scale pedal tone / pedal point avant garde. Igor stravinsky (1882-1971): russian exoticism[style term] primitivism[style term]: imitates art of non-european cultures considered less culturally developed in painting: gauguin (also some works by matisse & picasso) Rite of spring : ballet score, percussion , brass to the fore, high bassoon, block form. Sprechstimme [vocal technique / type of singing]: speech voice: timber of regular speech but with melodic contour atonal music/ atonality [harmonic language]: intentional avoidance of any pitch center expressionism[style term] in painting: edvard munch & ernst ludwig kirchner. Arnold schoenberg (1874-1951: pierrot lunaire [cycle of art songs, sprechstimme. Alban berg (1885-1935: wozzeck and lulu[operas]
