Fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Prelude a l’après-
Symphonic Poem midi d’un faune

Eine Klein Nachtmusik

Rocket theme

Eine kleine
Nachtmusik
Rounded binary form

Whole tone scale

The Four Seasons

The Rite of Spring

Primitivism
 Fugue is a highly structured, imitative contrapuntal composition which has a
single theme or subject prevails. Fugue subjects are manipulated using
inversion (subject presented “upside down”), augmentation (subject presented
in longer time value) and diminution (subject presented in shorter time values).

Rounded binary form, sonata-

rondo form, ternary form

Oratorio, cantata

Whole tone scale

Clarinet
 the short-short-short-long rhythm

The first theme is abbreviated, and second theme returns pianissimo, played now
by pizzicato strings and staccato winds

and repeated-note figures

Violins play a rapid undulating figures to describe the murmuring

streams are caressed by gentle breezes
Tremolando passages (quick repetition of notes)played by the violins evoke
thunder, rising 32nd note scales suggest lightning
 Intense chromaticism maintains the tension

In Pagan Russia during pre-Christian times, the ballet comprises a series of episodes
depicting tribal games and rituals conducted to ensure the fertility of the earth. it culminates
in the Sacrificial Dance during which a chosen maiden dances herself to death.

serenade for strings (chamber music)

Tonic chord Dominant 7th chord

Symbolist
 with continuo

Texture and features dotted

The first section rhythm

with
, which has a fast tempo and imitative texture. The predominant affect is more
energetic and lively

Organized in 2 parts
 Exoticism in music is an important element of 19th-century
musical style. Fascination with foreign lands and cultures, it
evoked through melody, rhythm, harmony, and orchestration.

Bizet was drawn to storylines with exotic settings and suggested

local color through the use of dance rhythms and evocative
orchestration.

Add: Tempo: Allegretto quasi

Andertino
 by Shakespeare

Maria’s brother

Through long phrases and free rhythm.

Add: CHARACTERS SINGING: Anita (mezzo-soprano), Rosalia (soprano),

and other Puerto Rican girls
SETTING: an alley behind Bernardo and Maria’s house
SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED: Rosalia expressed her homesickness for her
native Puerto Rico; Anita defiantly declares her love for her newfound home,
Manhattan. Sand helm’s clever lyrics extol both the virtues and false
promises of “The American Dream”
FORM: verse-chorus structure, preceded by introduction