MUS 1751 : Music Final Review
Document Summary
Impressionism in painting: active from early 1870"s to around 1920, artists, claude monet, edgar degas, auguste renior, style, against representational art. Exoticism: a musical style communicated by any sound drawn from outside the traditional western. The rite of spring: the greatest masterpiece of modern music, shocking musical effects, percussive orchestra, percussion section expanded, traditional instruments played percussively, bright, brittle, almost brutal sound. Arnold schoenberg: profoundly important composer and theorist, created atonal music, dispensed with the triad as a structural principle. Invented sprechstimme: father of 12 tone composition, second viennese school, pierrot lunaire, schoenberg"s best-known composition, an expressionist composition, soprano soloist and chamber ensemble. Introduced sprechstimme: german for speech-voice , rhythm strict, but pitch variable, created an exaggerated, hysterical style. Internationally acclaimed at age 19: was under stalin"s ruling, complex relationship with soviet government, authorities both honored and denounced his music, his international reputation provided protection. *be sure to listen and recognize symphony no.
