Study Guide for Quiz #5 (Twentieth Century)
Be able to identify the following compositions:
Stravinisky, The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps)-Dances of the Youths
Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire #1 – Moondrunk
Berg, Wozzeck, Act III Scene 5
Ives, The Unanswered Question
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Copland, Appalachian Spring
Penderecki, Threnody: To the Victims of Hiroshima
Ginastera, Estancia Suite (Malambo)
Know about the following composers:
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
Arnold Schoenberg
Charles Ives
Dmitri Shostakovich
John Cage
William Grant Still
George Gershwin
Scott Joplin
Study the following terms:
Twelve-tone system
Atonality
Sprechstimme
Non-western scales (Pentatonic, Octatonic, Whole-tone)
Chance music (aleatory)
Emancipation of Dissonance
Expressionism
Minimalism