• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Front

How to study your flashcards.

Right/Left arrow keys: Navigate between flashcards.right arrow keyleft arrow key

Up/Down arrow keys: Flip the card between the front and back.down keyup key

H key: Show hint (3rd side).h key

image

PLAY BUTTON

image

PLAY BUTTON

image

Progress

1/20

Click to flip

Card Range To Study

through

20 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
The Afternoon of a Faun
Claude Debussy
1894
Symphonic poem, symbolism
Dreamy, languid melody. Clarinet repeats main theme throughout the piece.
Voiles
Debussy
1909-10
scales: whole-tone, pentatonic
Solo piano piece with dissonant chords and non-diatonic, dreamy themes
Transfigured Night
Arnold Schoenberg
1899
chamber music, program music
Opens with Descending immitative melody. Escalates into drama and frustration with dissonance.
6 Little Piano Pieces
Schoenberg
1911
free atonality
Piano plays dissonant chords. Starts out loud and static, then quiet and more flowing.
The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky
1913
ballet
Complex rhythms with shifting accents, striking dynamic contrasts.
Wozzeck Act III Scene 4
Alban Berg
1922
Expressionist Opera
Alternation between freeflowing and metered rhythm.
Chromatic and dissionant harmonies
Yale-Princeton Football Game
Charles Ives
1898
Symphonic Poem
Seemingly random mix of song melodies.
Short escalating chaotic themes separated by a whistle.
Concord Sonata, Movement 3 , The Alcotts
Charles Ives
1920
20th Century Piano Sonata
American Folk-like themes. Dissonant motives appear throughout.
Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland
1942
Fanfare
Homophonic Brass melody. Heavy percussion interjections.
Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
1945
Ballet Suite
Solo themes passed between solo instruments.
Polychordal harmonies which cause slight dissonance.
Imaginary Landscape No.4
John Cage
1951
?
The sound of tuning in and out of radio stations. The rhythm of the switching between stations changes.
4'33"
John Cage
1952
?
Performers does not play their instruments for the duration of the peice. The music is composed of the sounds surrounding and caused by the performer and audience.
Poeme Electronique
Edgard Varèse
1958
?
Electronic noises presented seperately.
No continuous melody or rhythm
Rothko Chapel Movt 4
Morton Feldman
1971
Violin and solo female voice.
Seperated phrases of simple sequence of notes.
Rothko Chapel Movt 5
Morton Feldman
1971
Solo violin and vibraphone accompaniment
Languid, diatonic repetitive melody
Quartet for the End of Time
Olivier Messiaen
1941
?
Piano plays seperated dissonant chords. Violin plays dissonant intervals. Melody wanders whithout destination.
War Requiem, Requiem aeternam
Benjamin Britten
1962
?
Bell chimes throughout. Choir repeats theme.
War Requiem, Dies Irae Lacrimosa
Benjamin Britten
1962
?
Solo soprano then solo tenor voice with choral accompaniment. Lamenting and chromatic melody.
War Requiem, Offertorium
Benjamin Britten
1962
?
Lively melody sung by two tenor voices. Then melody becomes frustrated.
Batter My Heart
John Adams
2005
Repeated vocal theme. The vocal line is atonal at parts.