MUSI 4308 – EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE

TERMS, ETC.: OTHER FIGURES:

mid-century revolutions Victor Emmanuel II
Risorgimento censorship King Ludwig II
dramatic realism (opera) Mikhail Glinka
thematic/motivic recall music drama (Wagner) Viktor Hartmann
endless melody Sergei Diaghilev
Gesamtkunstwerk Vaslav Nijinsky
Leitmotif Wassily Kandinsky
Stabreim Albert Giraud
“Tristan chord” Adolf Loos
industrial revolution
historicism (Brahms) WORKS (LISTENING/SCORES):
passacaglia
chaconne Verdi, Rigoletto, Act III Quartet
exoticism Weber, “Wolf’s Glen Scene,” Der Freischütz, Act
nationalism II Finale
“Mighty Handful” Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Act I, Prelude
St. Petersburg Conservatory Brahms, Symphony No. 4, IV
character piece Mussorgsky, Coronation Scene, Boris Godunov
symphonic poem Dvorák, Slavonic Dances, op. 26, no. 1, Presto
ballet Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6, III
tone poem Beach, Gaelic Symphony, II
pentatonicism Mahler, Kindertotenlieder, no. 1 “Nun will...”
fin de siècle Strauss, Don Quixote, Themes and Var. 1-2
abstraction Debussy, Nocturnes: Nuages
World’s Fair (Paris) Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, part I excerpts
impressionism Schoenberg, “Enhauptung,” Pierrot Lunaire
symbolism Webern, Symphony op. 21, I
quartal/quintal chords Berg, Wozzeck, Act III, scene 3
parallelism (harmonic) Schoenberg, Piano Suite op. 25, “Praeludium”
whole tone scale Ives, The Unanswered Question
non-directional harmony Scriabin, Vers la flamme
primitivism Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and
motoric rhythm Celesta, III
polytonality
atonality BROAD TOPICS:
expressionism national identity vs. exoticism
Sprechstimme Romanticism vs. Modernism
Second Viennese School
12-tone method DATES: You may be asked to identify the date of
Klangfarbenmelodie composition for a given work within five years.
Serialism For example, a correct answer for The Rite of
collage Spring (1913) would be any year between 1908
Transcendentalism and 1918. Other questions may pertain to
neo-tonality chronology (e.g. whether The Rite of Spring was
arch form composed before or after The Unanswered
Question).

NOTE: This list is intended to help guide your studying but does necessarily encompass every possible
question. You may be asked about a composer’s biography when it is relevant to a given term, concept, or
musical example.