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Penderecki, Threnody: To the Victims of Hiroshima
- quarter-tone intervals - dissonant
- tone clusters
- slow and fast vibrato
- timbre: violin, cello, basses
- no melody, tonality, meter, and rhythm
- unmeasured
- glissando
- canon
- disjunct
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Sex Pistols, God Save the Queen
- modified strophic
- 3 sections in music: same music but different text, chorus, bridge
- public transcript
- coda
- 3 or 4 power cords
- repetition of single pitches
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Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika
- patriotism - public transcript
- harmony
- repetition
- small range
- sequence
- homophonic piece throughout
- changing the words to unity and reconciliation
- recognizable
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Giulio Caccini, lo, che dal Ciel cader
- propaganda - hidden transcript
- basso continuo
- singer sings over text
- no meter
- ornamentation
- intermedio
- uses monody
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Guillaume de Machuat, Messe de notre Dame, Kyrie
- the first minute is kyrie
- polyphonic (4 different voices)
- arsnora
- isorhythms
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Pape Marcelli, Kyrie
- council of trent
- not detailed word painting
- general atmosphere of beauty
- kyrie - mass ordinary
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B minor, Kyrie
- dramatic openning
- broke music
- kyrie starts off dark and serious then changes to christe elesion which is light and happy
- the contrast is also seen in the text
- fugue writing: one voice enters then another enters, its like a voice imitation
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Franz Schurber, Der Erlkönig
- piano
- word
- repeated octaves - horse running, frantic state, heartbeat
- descending - anxiety, the kid getting sick
- minor in the beginning - negative state
- major key - seducing the kid to come play with death
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni, Act I Sc. X: “Lá ci darem la mano”
- don giovanni - seducing all women in europe
- leprello - his servant
- zerlina - a maid who is about to get married
- masetto - her husband
- harpsicord
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Richard Strauss, Don Juan
- violins go low to high
- represents the character of Don Juan
- when Don Juan encounters different women is through solos
- the changes in tone represent the changes within Don Juan character
- the second women Don Juan encounters (using a different scale)
- then a return to Don Juan music (similar to opening but more turbulent)
- Don Juan then reminisces his encounters (negative cast)
- Dual part (music is turbulent and intense and then it dies out in the end/ descending - sounds like decaying)
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Frank Sinatra/Cole Porter, Night and Day (arr. Nelson Riddle, recorded 1956)
- portmento: inherited in musical African American tradition
- 32-bar popular song form (consists with an intro the 3 stances that has AAB format)
- the use of chromaticism at the end of the lines
- lots of pitch repetition
- descending scale
- legato
- swing
- ensemble - rhythm: piano, guitar, string bass, and drums, bass: trumpet, trombones, reed: saxophone
- heavy emphasis in 2 and 4 beats (back beat) within A in AAB
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Muddy Waters, I’m Your Hoochie Man
- features stop-time
- drums, harmonica, piano, and guitar
- dense texture
- piano you hear a cord on each beat or 2 cords per beat
- chicago electric blues
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Bill Haley and his Comets, Rock Around the Clock
- walking style
- back beat
- tempo is faster than swing music
- stop-time approach
- rock and roll
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Bee Gees, Stayin’ Alive
- identifying riff
- beat of the drum is mechanical
- synthesizers during notes that have been held (bridge)
- disco
- electrophonic
- coda
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Jeff Mills, The Bells
- tension
- building pulsion
- time is getting faster
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Chez Damier, Can you Feel it? (MK-Dub remix)
- precusion sounds like a human did it but was from a machine
- house
- recognizable melodies compared to techno
- goovy, sexy, warm, funky
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Tiësto, Adagio for strings Remix
- BPM around 130
- fast and driving base-line
- when building tension the speed increases
- creates tension by building it up and then releases it (the drop)
- trance
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Niccolò Paganini – Caprice No. 24
- he performed on the violin that no one thought of before
- emphasizing jumping around from one string to another (as if you hear two voices singing at the same time)
- playing octaves
- violinist
- virtuoso
- changing dynamics
- undulating at the beginning
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Franz Liszt – Grand Galop Chromatique
- inspired by paganini
- pianist
- lots of octaves
- famous for jumping around the keyboard and not missing notes
- ascending melody
- chromatic scale
- virtuoso
- fast pace
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