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15 Cards in this Set
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Claude Debussy |
First Impressionist composer |
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Faun |
Orch Piece |
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French Impressionist |
The practice of painting on the spot rather than in a studio from sketches |
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Sails |
Piano solo |
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Won Prix de Rome |
An official prize in composition funded by the French Govt, which required a three year stay in Rome. |
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Parallel Motion |
Imagine sails flapping listlessly in the breeze |
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Whole-tone Scale |
All pitches are a whole step apart |
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Igor Stravinsky |
Russian born composer Noteable works The Rite of Spring A new concept of music involving constantly changing rhythms and metric imbalances, a brilliant original orchestration, and drastically dissonant harmonies |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
Austrian-American composer Created new atonality, serialism, and 12 tone row. Influenced Alban Berg and Anton Webern |
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Atonal Music |
Uses each of the twelve notes of chromatic scale set in a fixed, predetermined order. |
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Speechgesang |
Vs Speechstimme Though sometimes used interchangeably Speechgesang operatic recitative manner of singing, whereas Speechstimme is closer to speech itself. |
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Béla Bartók |
Hungary-Austria |
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Edgard Varese |
French Born Composer Spent a majority of his time in the US Coined the term organized sound Ensemble Eliminated pitch Loved Percussion Ionization--Percussion Poeme Electronique |
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John Cage |
American Loved Varese's Music Prepared Piano (a modified version of a piano that has objects placed between its strings in order to produce percussive and otherworldly sound effects) 4'33 Chance Music |
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Aaron Copland |
American Composer Appalachian Spring |
