MUS 1751 : Music 1751 Final Study Guide
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Stravinsky pg 337 - moved to us, wwii. Rite of spring (1) two or more distinctly different meters simultaneously. Expressionism - schoenburg/freud (pg345) (2) creates rhythmic complexity. Neo classicism - copland theorist: created atonal music, dispensed with the triad as a structural principle, invented sprechstimme. Parody of shostokovich: b la bart k (1881-1945, hungarian nationalist and modernist composer, nationalist techniques, considered folk music as a corrective to. 1800s: simple gifts , 19th century shaker tune, theme and variations form, theme b. Minimalism - john adams: derived from a popular hungarian. Nixon in china: minimalism, began in the early 1960s, aesthetic, rejected modernism and neo- romanticism, reduction to the most essential elements, john adams (b. 1912: first recorded in 1920, precursors of the blues, work song and field holler of black laborers, wailing vocal style, blues scale, exemplifies minimalism, general subject matter of the. Goodman: george gershwin (1898-1937, dizzy gillespie, thelonious monk, salt peanuts , strophic, each strophe having.
