MUS 201- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)
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Final test: piano parlor and in their homes, fanny mendelssohn and schuman , women not being able to publish their work, definition: description, Innovation: experimentation, rejection of tonality, opposite of romanticism, different timbres, very short or very long. Impressionism: early period i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s, fresh, lively,atmospheric, artistic movement, harmonic ambiguity (which key??????, whole tone scales, pentatonic scales, chromaticism, de(cid:271)ussy"s = i(cid:373)pressio(cid:374)is(cid:373) Listening example: prelude to the afternoon of a faun, one of the most famous works. Inner feeling: conscious, self-expression, personal emotional truth, sigmund freud, expressionism in music, atonal music!!!!! The free(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:894)secret society(cid:895: emerged during the enlightenment, mutual support, social charity. Light and comic: emotional, themes, of life, death, romance, despair, and hope, solo co(cid:374)certo"s (cid:894)solo i(cid:374)stru(cid:373)e(cid:374)t accompanied by piano, pia(cid:374)o co(cid:374)certo"s (cid:894) over 20 co(cid:373)posed(cid:895, richer, varied, contrast, emotions, still uses all conventions of classical music. 40 in g minor: 1788, allegro molto *(very fast, 2/2, g minor, page 126 (textbook)
