Subject |
Date Published |
Contributer |
Language |
Total Questions |
File Name |
Music |
14th February 2009 |
Sean Lee |
USA |
44 |
wbe104.zip |
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Nemo James - Singer Songwriter
Erik Satie |
France, 1866-1925 Satie wanted to blend high and low art and often wrote satirically. He was anti-serialist and wrote music that was tonal but did not follow rules of progressive tonality. |
Johannes Brahms |
Nationality: German Style: Romantic Significant works: symphonies, pianist, Requiem (in German) – speaks to countrymen of all religions |
Bela Bartok |
Nationality: Hungarian Style: tonal, also serialism, atonal; Neo-Classicist Significant works: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta Other: went to countryside and borrowed melodies; used them as inspiration (melodic, rhythmic features) |
Gabriel Faure |
Nationality: French Style: Incorporated Neo-Classicism Significant works: Requiem, melodie Other: “a palette cleanser for excesses of late 19th century”; instead of going through all chromatic variations. |
Hector Berlioz |
Nationality: French Style: Romanticist Significant works: Symphone Fantastique – programmatic Requiem Quotes Dies Irae Other: Composed and conducted. First important French composer of Romantic period |
Igor Stravinsky |
Nationality: Russia Style: modernism; tonal; Wrote objective music Significant works: Les Noces (About countryside wedding rituals in Russia), Rite of Spring, Symphony of Psalms, Mass (Russian orthodox cantillation; solo) |
Maurice Ravel |
Nationality: French Style: neo-classicism, impressionism, modernism Significant works: Princess of Pagodas – pentatonic scales; Valley of the Bells; La Walze – apocalyptic |
Paul Hindemith |
Nationality: German Style: retained tonality Significant works: Series of preludes and fugues; 1 written on each of pitch class in his tone hierarchy |