MUSI 4240 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Gustav Mahler, Salome, Orchestra
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Ravel - piano concerto in g, movement i. Bartok - music for strings, percussion, and celesta, movement ii. Elimination of transitions, bright/cold wind timbres, unusual chamber ensembles, diatonic melodies harmonized without functional harmony, and with free dissonances, frequent meter changes. Non-pitch timbres, expanded percussion, industrial-age inspirations, mechanistic rhythms/ostinati. Clashes between 18th century style traits and 20th century. Any passage of obvious free dissonance treatment or obvious lack of common-practice tonic. Linearism = the new polyphony of the 1920s. Multi-line textures without careful concern for the chords that or formed or their harmonic function. Emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, airplane, and the industrial revolution. Luigi russolo - categories of non-pitched noise timbres: mechanical and animal. Marinetti - invented several instruments and wrote pieces for them. Marinetti down with the tango and parsifal effeminizing poisons of the tango . Stravinsky les noces early version for player pianos, final version for 4 pianos and percussion.
