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Exam 1 Study Guide (2016 edition)

PLEASE NOTE: The examination’s questions are drawn in ap proximately equal  balance  r om r eadin!(and reading quizzes), from lectures, from the Question Bank, and from commentary on the listening.Please prepare using all three sources. Exam ill not include listening excerpts.

!t is essential that you"

•  #e$ie all data streams" lecture notes, readings (and #Qs), scores %

recordings•  Be a&le to cite names, dates and composers of specific orks

•  !n all cases you need specific details. 'ague generalizations from classroom discussion are

not 

sufficient.

SOC!", #O"$C!", %S$O&C!", $EC%'O"OGC!", #%"OSO#%C!"'"*E'CES

•  key scientific and technological texts and de$elopments in the th

century•  effects upon music of technology, population shifts and expansion

•

  Political progressi$ism•  *ilitary and political conflicts in the th

century

•  +nification

•  olonialism•  hanges in concert settings and concert manners

•  Ex pansion o music’s a"ailability•  Political and economic change

•  -ransformations in communication and

transportation

S+S and E!S

•  #omanticism" origin and connotations of the term

•  ationalism•  Examples of $arious nationalist composers and their ethnicity (including

 /merican)

•  #Exoticism$

•  Primiti$ism

•  *odernism

•  !nno$ations in painting and literature

•  *usical responses to modernism•  -chaiko$sky and exoticism

•  Program $ersus a&solute music

$%E -*S'ESS O +*SC

•  hanges in pu&lic performance and pu&lishing

•  %omposers’ other occupations•  +ni$ersities, conser$atories, amateur music0

making•  1ong pu&lishing % -in Pan /lley

CO+#OSE&S

•  &eetho"en’s in luence

•  omposer as Promethean hero

•  omplete editions

•   /uto&iographical composition

•  'a!ner’s in luence•  2agner and examples of orks

•

  2e&er and examples of orks•  Beetho$en and examples of orks

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•  Berlioz and examples of orks•  *ussorgsky and examples of orks

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•  Borodin and examples of orks

•  #imsky and examples of orks

$.#ES O E/E'CE

•  1cores

•  #ecordings

•  !conographic examples•  3iterature•  4istorical e$ents

#"!CES

•  *usic cities % their contrasts

•  'ienna" imperial capitol, musical esta&lishment, impact of di$erse population•  Paris" imperial capitol, musical esta&lishment, impact of di$erse population artistic communities,

$enues for music, pop56art6 exchange, Paris exposition

•  1t Peters&urg and *osco" 7estard6 and 7eastard6 looking #ussian nationalism

GE'&ES S$."S$C ''O/!$O'

•  -he symphony

•  Experiments especially in areas of harmony and form•  &allet’s inno"ations and !eo!r aphical centers•  8ther th century &allet composers

•  8pera in $arious countries" social class, stylistic inno$ation, economics, topics

•  Experiments ith form" opera, symphonic poem, &allet