MUHI Final

By jmstruth

  • Tale of the White Snake

    • From early 17th century
    • ancient tradition
    • featured martial and civil instrumentation

  • Murder of Anne Nichols

    • inspired the song Knoxville Girl

  • Beethoven born

  • Paganini born

  • Lowell Mason born

    'Father of music education'

  • Paris Conservatoire Established

  • Beethoven - Piano Sonata in C minor

    • Sonata-allegro form
    • also known as "sonata pathetique"
    • added an Intro and Coda to make the form his own

  • Beethoven's hearing loss begins

  • Beethoven - Symphony no. 3, movement 1

    • Introduced some musical jokes, as well as a Mannheim roller effect
    • Again, changed the typical sonata-allegro form
    • Beethoven dedicated his Eroica symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, but he found out he named himself emperor and scribbled out his name

  • Berlioz born

  • Paganini - Caprice 24

    • Influenced Liszt
    • Included techniques of back-shifting and left-hand pizzicato
    • 'Devil's Violinist'

  • Chopin born

  • Liszt born

  • Verdi born

  • Karl Marx born

  • Beethoven dies

  • Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

    • Programmatic music
    • Written and expressed Berlioz's own obsession with Harriet Smithson
    • Utilizes idee fixee

  • Symphonie Fantastique wins Prix de Rome

  • Brahms born

  • Bizet born

  • Paganini dies

  • Dvorak born

  • Liszt - Un Sospiro

    • the 3 Concert Etudes, written between 1845-1849
    • this specific etude focuses on hand coordination and the trade-off of melody between left and right hand
    • Liszt established memorization of repertoire

  • Carmen - Bizet

    • Exoticism and realism
    • Spanish song and instrumentals, but in French classical style

  • Chopin dies

  • Arkansas Traveler

    • date is approximate

  • Chopin - Mazurka

    • Written between 1825-1849, published in 1852
    • Featured nationalism, a Polish triple-meter dance

  • La Traviatta

    • Verdi
    • featured verismo
    • tragic opera
    • heavily utilized compositional control

  • Debussy born

  • Beach born

  • Brahms - Requiem

    • Text dates back to the 15th century
    • Not a catholic mass; uses different texts
    • Not a true requiem; some scholars call it an oratorio
    • Drew inspiration from his mother's death

  • Berlioz dies

  • James W. Johnson born

  • Lowell Mason dies

  • John R. Johnson born

  • Ravel born

  • Bizet dies

  • Dvorak - Slavonic Dances

    • Czech dance influence
    • triple meter

  • Stravinsky born

  • Karl Marx dies

  • Jerome Kern born

  • Liszt dies

  • Exposition Universalle

    • Held in Paris
    • Allowed European ears and eyes to be introduced to new cultural music
    • However, this cultural music was often colonialized as a result

  • Prokofiev born

  • Dvorak - Symphony no. 9

    • Symphony 'for a new world'
    • Believed composers should draw from African American and Native American influence

  • Amy Beach - Gaelic Symphony

    • First symphony composed and published by a female American composer
    • Thought American music should derive from Irish, Scottish, general European influence rather than African or Native American

  • Bessie Smith born

  • Mei Lanfang born

  • William Grant Still born

  • Hammerstein born

  • Brahms dies

  • Gershwin born

  • Debussy - Nuages

    • Inspired by impressionistic paintings by James Whistler
    • Draws on themes from Gamelan music

  • Dorsey born

  • James & John Johnson - Lift Every Voice and Sing

    • Poem written by James Weldon Johnson, melody composed by brother John Rosamond Johnson
    • Named the "Negro National Anthem" in 1919 by the NAACP and promoted/popularized the hymn through the civil rights movement
    • First performed by school children

  • John Henry (song)

    • date is an approximation

  • Copland born

  • Verdi dies

  • Trainwreck of the (actual) Old 97

    • inspired the song Wreck of the Old 97

  • Dvorak dies

  • Maurice Ravel drops out of the Paris Conservatoire

  • Shostakovich born

  • Prokofiev piano concerto no. 1

    • 'graduation' piece from St. Petersburg conservatory

  • Rite Of Spring premieres

    • met with a riot
    • clashing dissonance, stark ballet movements caused an uproar

  • Marxism influences music

    c.1910s-1930s
    - much overt propaganda music is made
    - 12-tone music was banned, but modified tonality was okay
    - formalism bad, socialist-realism good

  • Bolshevik Revolution

  • Debussy dies

  • Prokofiev - Piano concerto no. 3

    • modeled for American tastes
    • rhythmic vitality and melody
    • modified the sonata form and tonality

  • Crash of the Ol 97

    • trainwreck ballad
    • date is approximate

  • Knoxville Girl

    • murder ballad
    • date is approximate

  • Bessie Smith - Backwater Blues

    • Associated with the great Mississippi flood of 1927, even though this was released two month prior
    • Instead, it is believed that this is about the Nashville, Tennessee flood on Christmas Day of 1926

  • Showboat

    • by Kern/Hammerstein
    • Make Believe: sung by two white characters who pretend everything is okay when things get tough
    • Ol Man River: sung by a black character who compares African American struggles to an ever - flowing river

  • West End Blues - Louis Armstrong/Hot Five Version

    • Armstrong's recording was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1979
    • According to Gary Giddings, this song “came to symbolize more than any other the ascendancy of a classic American music.”

  • William Grant Still - Symphony no. 1

    • Afro-American Symphony no. 1
    • William Grant Still known as dean of Afro-American composers
    • 12 bar blues, manipulates sonata form

  • Gershwin - I Got Rhythm

    • Tin Pan Alley song
    • Follows verse-chorus form

  • Precious Lord Take my Hand

    • Thomas A. Dorsey

  • Shostakovich - Symphony no. 5

    • "a soviet artist's response to just criticism"

  • Gershwin dies

  • Bessie Smith dies

  • Ravel dies

  • James W. Johnson dies

  • Copland - Appalachian Spring

    • Inspired by Stravinsky
    • Shaker tune
    • originally a ballet score, recommissioned for orchestra in 1945

  • Beach dies

  • Jerome Kern dies

  • Prokofiev dies

  • John R. Johnson dies

  • Vertigo released

    • features 'Scene D'amour' and 'Prelude and Rooftop'
    • diegetic and non-diegetic music

  • Hammerstein dies

  • Mei Lanfang dies

  • Stravinsky dies

  • Shostakovich dies

  • William Grant Still dies

  • Caroline Shaw born

  • Copland dies

  • Dorsey dies

  • Bunty aur Babli released

    • features song 'Kajra Re'
    • music and dance dominates this and other Bollywood movies

  • Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Voices

    • Two types of allemandes featured: Baroque dance, as well as a move in square dancing
    • Shaw was the youngest composer to receive the Pulitzer prize