Assignment: Grout and Palisca, Chapter
19
Read: 652 (top)-652 (bottom)
Skim: 652 (bottom)-653
Read: 653-664
Skim: 665 (top)-665 (bottom)
Read: 665 (bottom)-671
Skim: 671-677 (top)
Read: 677 (top)-677 (bottom)
Skim: 677 (bottom)-680
Read: 680-684
Skim: 684-687
Study Questions:
2. In what ways are Mahler’s symphonies programmatic?--p. 655
3. How does Mahler employ vocal material in his symphonies?--p. 655-659
4. How does Mahler employ tonality?--p. 658
5. What are the two kinds of programs for a symphonic
poem? What kinds does
Strauss use?--p.
660-661
6. What is the formal structure of Strauss’s Don
Quixote? In what ways does he
employ a variation
technique?--p. 662
7. What influence did Strauss’s operas have on later German music?--p. 663
8. How does the style of Der Rosenkavalier
depart from that of Strauss’s earlier
operas?--p. 664*
9. What was the state of secular art music in Russia
prior to the 19th century?--p.
666
10. In what ways did Glinka and Dargomïzhsky
help to develop a national Russian
style?--p. 666
11. Who are the "mighty handful"? What elements of
style do they have in com-
mon?--p. 667
12. What are the salient features of Musorgsky’s style?--p.668-671
13. What are the features of the French revival after
1871? What are the three main
lines of development
of French music at that time?--p. 677
14. What is musical Impressionism?--p. 680**
15. What influences helped shape Debussy’s style?--p. 680—681
16. What is the harmonic language of Debussy’s Nuages?--p.
681-682 (and
NAWM 131)
17. Be able to describe Debussy’s orchestration--p. 682
**Class discussion will provide more material on this matter.