Chapter 29

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Created May 6, 2012
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1	During the second half of the nineteenth century, the audience for classical music broadened...	segmented
2	While some were interested in new styles of concert music, others showed increasing interest...	past
3	The growing seriousness of the concert hall widened the gulf between classical and__________.	popular music
4	What two composers are identified in the opening as the "poster children" for two different...	Brahms and Wagner
5	What country led the way in forming the new academic discipline of musicology?	Germany
6	How did the nationality of these early musicologists impact their selection of past composers...	most were German
7	The paradox here was that this brought forth a lot of "old" music that was, for the time_______.	new to them
8	How is the dichotomy or argument between the champions of Brahms and the champions of Wagner...	absolute and program music
9	What older composer did both sides of this argument "claim" as "one of their own"?	Beethoven
10	At this time, was the music of Johann Strauss the Younger, the so-called waltz king, considered...	popular because the lighter style was intended for enjoyment rather than intellect
11	By the time Brahms was 20, around 1850, what percentage of music played in orchestra concerts...	3/5ths; over 75%
12	How many symphonies did Brahms compose? How many years did he spend working on the first symphony?	4; over 20
13	How is Brahms' first symphony " like" a Beethoven symphony and how does it differ?	has conventional sequence of movements, but the third movement is not a scherzo. Moves from...
14	Cite three frequent characteristics of Brahms music.	Romanticused virtually every form from the past to his timesynthesized styles from past periods...
15	What old form did Brahms employ for the finale of his fourth symphony?	chaccone
16	What is the "developing variation" technique often used to describe Brahm's compositional process?	the theme itself is a series of varients of its opening measure
17	What later composer/theorist coined this term?	Schoenburg
18	In his use of Theme and Variations form, how did Brahms view/ construct his individual variations?	String of shorter character pieces based of the formal and harmonic plan of a theme
19	What two genres/titles did Brahms use most in his later piano character pieces?	intermezzos and rhapsodies
20	How many songs/ leider did Brahms compose?	260
21	How might one distinguish a Brahms leider accompaniment from one be Schubert of Schumann?	Piano is greatly varied in texture, changing figuration about every two measure
22	What is Brahms' greatest choral work?	Ein deutsches Requiem ( a german requiem)
23	How does it depart from the traditional " requiem" text as set by Mozart, Berlioz, etc.?	passages from the scripture in German rather than the traditional latin requiem text
24	Why does the author view Brahms as a pathbreaker rather than a conservative?	amoung the first to view the entire range of music from the present and past as material to...
25	On what grounds could Brahms be viewed aas a conservative?	new elements to traditional forms by old composers
26	In listing Liszt and Berlioz as part of the new German school, how did Franz Brendel argue...	they took Beethoven as their model
27	Besides Wagner and Berlioz, what 5 composers are listed as being part of this new German school?	Wolf, Bruckner, Strauss, Mahler, Liszt
28	What was Liszt's symphonic poem, and how many did he compose?	1 movement programmatic work with sections of contrasting character and tempo, presenting a...
29	What were the programmatic titles of Liszt's two symphonies?	Faust symphony and Dante symphony
30	What was Liszt's technique of thematic transformation?	transforming the thematic material to reflect the diverse moods needed to portray a programmatic...
31	Did the music critic Eduard Hanslick championabsolute music or program music?	absolute
32	How many symphonies did Bruckner compose?	11
33	Why do we have problems establishing a single correct version of many of Bruckner's symphonies?	he revised so often there are 2-3 versions of each
34	Fir what genre-- and doing what with that genre-- is Hugo Wolf best known?	lieder and adapting Wagner's methods to German leid
35	How many leider did Wolf compose?	250
36	How did Wolf compose/ group/ publish leider and what new conception of the genre did this advanec?	short periods of intense creativity; 5 collections of leider devoted to a single poet or group
37	What is meant by the term chromatic saturation?	a measure or intense chromaticism in that all 12 chromatic notes appear in a single phrase
38	Richard Strauss is best remembered as a composer for his work with what genre?	Symphonic poems
39	What did Strauss mean by this term/ genre?	a piece of orchestra music in a single continuous section that paint a picture with music
40	What four Strauss tone poems are discussed in some detail?	Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote
41	What absolute musical form did Strauss suggest he used in Till Euienspiegel?	rondo
42	What form guides Don Quixote?	variations
43	What genre is Gustav Mahler best know?	symphonies
44	How did Mahler make his living?	conducting
45	How many symphonies did Mahler compose?	9, 10th is unfinished
46	How did Mahler famously describe the writing of a symphony?	constructing a world
47	Mahler employed large orchestras and greatly varied orchestration... he was one of the first...	sound
48	What about Mahler's symphonies suggest tha they are programmatic? What makes it difficult to...	he wrote programs but then rejected them. No programs exist for numbers 5-7 but the presence...