1st Edition
MUS-M 402: History & Lit of Music Ii
School: Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB )
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Pages: 2Minimalism is a style in which materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures are simplified so that what is going on in the music is immediately apparent. -
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Pages: 2John Cage was a true experimental composer especially interested in rhythm and duration. -
Pages: 2With the advancement and development of recording technology in the 1920s, the popular styles of Jazz and the Blues began to spread and grow in America. -
Pages: 2As all of Europe reeled in complete turmoil from the distress and nightmare of World War I, the distinct German and Russian ideologies that lead to the development of the Nazi Party and the Soviet Union respectively began to directly influence all areas of life, including music. -
Pages: 2In this lecture, we identify the four musical traditions that inform Ives' compositions and discuss the role irony plays in Ives' compositional style. -
Pages: 2Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" crossed new boundaries with crunching, Russian, rhythmical dissonances and the tragic story of a clown. -
Pages: 2Expressionism in music challenged one's personal inner reality to the reality of the outer world to bend realism in a new way never before seen in music composition. -
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Pages: 2The “Music of the Future Controversy” was a great debate that arose as composers deliberated about the “right” was to proceed in music composition following the works of Beethoven. -
Pages: 2Modernism in music was the testing of the limits of aesthetic construction through technical aggression and dissonance. -
Pages: 2Composers Brahms and Wagner are famous for their quarrel over the "right" way to compose new music of the western art tradition while incorporating historicism into their works. -
Pages: 3Wagner's "Gesamtkunstwerks" were created to be musical dramas encompassing a philosophy of "total art" involving all elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, set, etc. to create a new kind of musical work. -
Pages: 2Richard Wagner felt that he was the next great German composer to follow after Beethoven with his musical style of composition. -
Pages: 3Tschaikovsky and "The Mighty Five" were Russian composers who sought to establish and create a style of composition that was uniquely Russian to reflect Russian nationalism. -
Pages: 2What makes music popular? Popular music is a term used widely in everyday discourse that is clearly identifiable, but hard to define. Can music be both "popular" and "Art". -
Pages: 2Verdi's Bel Canto Operas significantly increased drama with larger staging and more powerful singing in both the Cantabile and Cabaletta styles. -
Pages: 2As Chopin's works grew and developed, a style of "transcendental music" developed that is still with us today. -
Pages: 2With the Romantic Era, composers began to create music using transcendentalist techniques, desiring to transcend, or go beyond, the mundane of everyday syntax and skill with virtuosity. -
Pages: 2Lyric Binary Form was introduced into music at the beginning of the Romantic Era. This form literally fixes itself in music and remains absolutely central to the modern music of our day. -
Pages: 2Beethoven's compositional style moved away from the idea of passion balanced with reason and order. Hector Berlioz, however, embraced the opposite, moving towards a complete and all-consuming passion of extremes, chaos, and disorder. We see this in Berlioz's work. -
Pages: 5This Study Guide summarizes Lectures 1-11 on "Music of the Western Art Tradition" in preparation for Exam 1. -
Pages: 2At the end of Beethoven's life, composers recognize that much has happened and changed in the world of music. Because Beethoven established a feeling of extremes in his music, composers are forced to ask themselves, "Where do we go from here?" -
Pages: 2Beethoven composed in a style that took existing, widely-understood aspects of form and style and monumentalized them. We explore this technique through a closer look at his "Symphony No. 9 in D minor".