MUL 2010 Final Exam Study Guide PDF

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MUL 2010-001 Final Exam Study Guide – Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 15 The final exam will consist of listening, multiple choice, true/false, and matching questions. In studying for the exam, I recommend listening to the below pieces on Spotify/YouTube, reviewing PowerPoints and past two quizzes, and reading your textbook, paying close attention to the detailed listening guides for the pieces we’ve discussed in class. Listening For the exam, I will play a sample of five of the pieces listed below, and I may start at the beginning or in the middle at an important section. If you need to hear a selection an additional time, please raise your hand after I’ve played them all once and I will be happy to play them again. Each listening will have 3-4 accompanying questions regarding significant musical characteristics and information surrounding the composer, genre, and other contextual content that is significant to the piece. 1. Union by Louis Moreau Gottschalk Know some information about Gottschalk Virtuosic solo piano piece that incorporates “Star-Spangled Banner,” “Hail, Columbia, “and “Yankee Doodle” Used to galvanize support for the Northern side during the Civil War 2. Second movement of “Emperor” String Quartet, Op. 76, No.3 by Joseph Haydn Why did Haydn write this melody? What anthems has the melody been used in? Periodic phrase structure (antecedent and consequent) Theme & variations form How does the texture change throughout the movement? 3. In the Steppes of Central Asia by Alexander Borodin Example of Russian nationalism Symphonic poem Known characteristics of the 3 themes – traveling, Russian, eastern 4. Vltava by Bedrich Smetana Example of Bohemian nationalism Symphonic poem Know characteristics of each theme as laid out in program notes 5. “Es iz geven a zumer-tog” (“It was a Summer’s Day”) Poem by Rikle Glezer Tune set to popular Yiddish theater song, “Papirosn” (“Cigarettes”) Minor tonality, syllabic, strophic Related to Ponar(y) massacre during Holocaust 6. First Movement: “Liturgie De Cristal” from Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen Clarinet, violin, cello, piano Written while Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity Inspired by Book of Revelations First movement: clarinet and violin = birds; cello pentatonic melody; piano playing complex, mathematically derived cycles of harmony and rhythm “musical meditation”

7. Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki Post-WWII String orchestra Extended techniques Non-metric – events happen based on segments of time ABA form 8. “Leibst du um Schönheit” (“If You Love for Beauty”) by Clara Schumann Lied (instrumentation?) Modified strophic form (simpler versus more active verses) 9. “Lo conosco” (“I Can See It”) from La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Pergolesi Intermezzo/comic opera Characters, and what is happening in this particular scene? How does the music convey that? Stylistic characteristics of Strophe A Incited the War of the Buffoons (why?) 10. “Kalenda maya” by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras Who is Raimbaut? Dance tune Triple meter Strophic Text deals with fin amours theme 11. “Fair Phyllis” by John Farmer English madrigal (Renaissance) Examples of word painting – “sitting all alone” and “up and down” 12. Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz Know some background on Berlioz – what did he come to Paris to study originally? Who was his love interest? What did he do besides writing music? Programmatic 5 movements Idée fixe “March to the Scaffold” (fourth movement) – Program? Form? “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” (fifth movement) – Program? Uses Dies Irae 13. “Your Cheatin’ Heart” by Hank Williams Who was Hank Williams? What was troubling about his life, and what is significant about when this song was released? Modified 32 bar song form Steel guitar and fiddle 14. Opening sequence from Metropolis Music composed/conceived by Gottfried Huppertz German science-fiction film from 1927 How does the music depict the sounds and environment of the machines in the urban space? What are the 3 themes at the end of the film clip?

15. Opening sequence from The Day the Earth Stood Still Music composed by Bernard Hermann Film from 1951 during social climate of fear (why were people fearful?) First use of theremin in a film Other metallic, eerie-sounding instruments and timbres Sections A, B, and C 16. “Jailhouse Blues” performed by Bessie Smith Who was Bessie Smith? 12-bar blues form AAB structure of each verse How might you describe Smith’s vocal style? 17. “Libertango” by Ástor Piazzolla Know some background on Piazzolla Where did tango originate, and by who? Its popularity in what city legitimized it as a ballroom dance? Used in The Tango Lesson (1997) 32 and 16-bar sections Tango is a dance of seduction 18. “Take the ‘A’ Train” by Billy Strayhorn Signature big band tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra AABA 32-bar song form Head Characteristics of big band/swing jazz? (instrumentation, rhythm section, swung rhythms, walking bass, improvised solos) 19. "The Augers of Spring" ("Dances of the Young Girls") by Igor Stravinsky, from The Rite of Spring Story of ballet? Controversy surrounding premiere? Original choreography characteristics? Example of primitivism – polytonality, fragmented melodies, irregular accents, ostinati Huge orchestra 20. No. 1 “Mondestrunken” (“Moondrunk”) from Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg Know some background on Schoenberg First song within the 21-song cycle Sprechstimme vocal style Atonal Demonstrates Modernism and Expressionism 21. The Banshee by Henry Cowell Avant-garde work for piano Requires 2 performers Tone clusters 22. Bacchanale for prepared piano by John Cage Avant-garde work for piano What is a prepared piano? Influenced by sounds of gamelan (percussive)

23. Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youths) by Karlheinz Stockhausen Who was Stockhausen? Example of early electronic music 5 sets of speakers How is the voice of a 12-year old boy manipulated? Text from Book of Daniel in the Old Testament Serializes everything

Vocabulary Jimi Hendrix Francis Scott Key “Hail, Columbia” String quartet Periodic phrase structure Nationalism “The Five” Symphonic poem Program music/programmatic Jingju/Beijing Opera Sheng/Dang/Jing/Chou Cultural Revolution (China) Yang Ban Xi Hong Deng Ji (The Red Lantern) Vilna ghetto Acoustic bombardment Lied(er) Querrelle des Bouffons (War of the Buffoons) Troubadour Trouvère Fin amours Madrigals Word painting Harriet Smithson Hank Williams 32-bar song form Steel guitar The Jazz Singer Theremin John Williams Leitmotifs Richard Wagner Vaudeville T.O.B.A. Theater Owners Booking Association Compadrito Bandoneón Capoeira (legend, instrumentation, musical style) Swing era Big band

Duke Ellington Cotton Club “Jungle” sound of jazz Billy Strayhorn “Sun King” Story ballet Giselle Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russes Vaslav Nijinsky Primitivism Modernism Expressionism 12-tone system Avant-garde Luigi Russolo Intonarumori Ballet mèchanique Prepared piano Indeterminacy Total serialism Pierre Boulez Musique concrete Pierre Schaeffer John Cage 4’33 Sampling...