Music lit 2

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Who was famous teacher of composers?
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choose tones and pitch colors randomly
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Important places during 20th century and beyond...
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Settled in Paris and had 2 piano concertos at ages 18 and 19
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Wrote 6th symphony (Pathetique) which was autobiographical and died shortly after...
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2 traditional unrelated chords played together
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Who founded Ballet Russes and was an art critic?
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Important people to remember for twentieth century and beyond...
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Antonin Dvorak is...
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Twentieth century and beyond encompasses...
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Gustav Mahler...
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Expressionism...
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky...
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Harmony, chord, interval considered stable
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Liszt became religious at old age and composed sacred works/experimented with new ideas
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Exposure from African-American and Native American music in america resulted in "From the New World" symphony (No.9)
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From impressionism came pentatonic scale...
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Franz Liszt's music varies between showman-style and music of deeper substance
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Unstable chord, unpleasant to ear
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Multiple rhythms that are complex and change...
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Who was Tchaikovsky's benefactor?
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Music lacking tonal center or constant key
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What is a method that uses a series of values to manipulate different musical elements?
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12 tone music created by...
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Importance of rubato, music orchestrated for Les Sylphides in early 20th century
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Felix Mendelssohn...
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Preferred intimacy of salons over concert halls, improvisational character of music, composed very little non-piano music
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Characteristics of 20th century music..
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Johannes Brahms was self-critical and felt he needed to live up to Beethoven's reputation
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Mendelssohn's sister Fanny was important female composer
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Who did Swan Lake, Sleeping beauty, and the Nutcracker?
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Example of atonal music by Schoenberg
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Who was Stephane Mallarme?
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Felix Mendelssohn...
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Drawing inspiration from classical art and culture of ancient greece or rome....
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Hungarian and inspired by Paganini to play piano, became virtuoso concert pianist
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Minimalistic music...
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Had a relationship with the Schumanns, german
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Claude Debussy and Mallarme associated with...
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simultaneous occurrence of two tonalities in a composition
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Created piano transcriptions of orchestral music and was popular with the ladies when he toured as concert pianist
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Motive/phrase repeated persistently at same pitch
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What is character in a film or book that lacks some or all traditional heroic qualities?
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What is associated with Chopin?
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Who did A Midsummer Night's Dream?
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In Impressionism was whole scale...
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Who had a broken marriage due to sexual orientation?
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What is a tone cluster?
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Polish and considered "poet of the piano"
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What are examples of tone color (timbre)?