MORE SPECIFIC TEST REVIEW ITEMS

There will be four portions to the test:
1. Listening
2. Composer Matching
3. Multiple Choice
4. Short Essay (only 2)

For the listening, review these pieces/composers that are on the CDs that came with your book:
1. Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire
2. Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra
3. Crumb, Ancient Voices of Children
4. Lansky, Notjustmoreidlechatter
5. Tower, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
6. Part, Cantate Domino canticum novum
7. Adams, Roadrunner from Chamber Symphony

There will be three pieces that aren't on your CD, but I played them in class:
8. Stravinsky, Rite of Spring (percussive strings, sounds like Psycho, the movie).
9. John Cage, Sonata #5 for Prepared Piano (sounds like bells and gongs--Kendall Feeney played this during her lecture on monday).
10. Steve Reich, Drumming (mimimalist drumming)

Next, comes composer matching. Review the biographies of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, John Cage, and Joan Tower (can all be found in your book).

Next, multiple choice. Review basic definitions: melody (conjunct, disjunct, interval, range), rhythm (beat, triple and duple meter, polyrhythm), harmony (chord, tonic, tonality, major, minor, dissonance, consonance, cadence,), timbre, orchestral instruments (woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion), Neo-Classicism, Neo-Romanticism, Expressionism, atonality, polytonality, 12-tone, Sprechstimme, indeterminacy/aleatoric music, musique concrete.

By the way, John Taverner is a spiritual minimalist (hint hint).
Also, minimalist composers included Adams, Reich, Glass, and Riley.

Short Essay:
Review the short section in the first chapter about attending concerts and concert etiquette. Also, review your first discussion sheet and the question about the difference between hearing and listening (active and passive listening).

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me.