Listening Guide, Chapter 20 and 21


#130 Composer:  Béla Bartók
     a. Title:  Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
     b. Movement:  III (Adagio)
     c. Techniques:
          i. Parlando Rubato on xylophone opening and close
         ii. Mirror form (large & small)
        iii. Timpani Gliss
         iv. 2 pentatonic scales on celesta
          v. Bulgarian dance rhythms (2+3+3)
 
#134 Composer:  Igor Stravinsky
     a. Title:  Le Sacre du printemps
     b. Section:  Danse des adolescentes
     c. Techniques:
          i. Large orchestration
         ii. polychords
        iii. syncopation over 16 and 32 beat patterns

#136 Composer:  Arnold Schoenberg
     a. Title:  Variationen fur Orchester, Op. 31
     b. Movement:  Theme
     c. Techniques:  12 tone serialism
           i.  row or original
          ii.  inversion
         iii.  retrograde
         iv.  retrograde-inversion
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