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Music Exam 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Erlking: composer | Schubert |
| Erlking: genre | lied |
| Erlking: era | Romantic |
| Im wunderschönen Monat Mai: composer | Robert Schumann |
| Im wunderschönen Monat Mai: genre | lied, from a song cycle |
| Im wunderschönen Monat Mai: era | Romantic |
| Mazurka in B-flat Minor: composer | Chopin |
| Mazurka in B-flat Minor: genre | mazurka |
| Mazurka in B-flat Minor: era | Romantic |
| March to the Scaffold: composer | Berlioz |
| March to the Scaffold: genre | program symphony |
| March to the Scaffold: era | Romantic |
| Moldau, from Ma vlast: composer | Smetana |
| Moldau: genre | symphonic poem |
| Moldau: era | Romantic |
| Symphony No. 3 in F: composer | Brahms |
| Symphony No. 3 in F: genre | symphony |
| Symphony No. 3 in F: era | Romantic |
| La donna e mobile, from Rigoletto: composer | Verdi |
| La donna e mobile, from Rigoletto: genre | Opera |
| La donna e mobile, from Rigoletto: era | Romantic |
| Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre, from The Ring of the Nibelung: composer | Wagner |
| Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre, from The Ring of the Nibelung: genre | Music drama |
| Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre, from The Ring of the Nibelung: era | Romantic |
| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy & Trepak, from Nutcracker: composer | Tchaikovsky |
| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy & Trepak, from Nutcracker: genre | ballet |
| Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy & Trepak, from Nutcracker: era | Romantic |
| La Bohéme: "Un bel di": composer | Puccini |
| La Bohéme: "Un bel di": genre | opera |
| La Bohéme: "Un bel di": era | Post Romantic/Impressionism |
| Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun": composer | Debussy |
| Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun": genre | symphonic poem |
| Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun": era | Post Romantic/Impressionism |
| The Rite of Spring: composer | Stravinsky |
| The Rite of Spring: genre | Ballet |
| The Rite of Spring: era | Post Romantic/Impressionism |
| Pierrot lunaire "Moondrunk": composer | Schoenberg |
| Pierrot lunaire "Moondrunk": genre | song cycle |
| Pierrot lunaire "Moondrunk": era | Post Romantic/Impressionism |
| Wozzeck: Act III, Scene 4: composer | Berg |
| Wozzeck: Act III, Scene 4: genre | Opera |
| Wozzeck: Act III, Scene 4: era | Post Romantic/Impressionism |
| Concerto for Orchestra: "Interrupted Intermezzo": composer | Bartók |
| Concerto for Orchestra: "Interrupted Intermezzo": genre | concerto |
| Concerto for Orchestra: "Interrupted Intermezzo": era | Post Romantic/Impressionism |
| Carmina burana: "O fortuna": composer | Orff |
| Carmina burana: "O fortuna": genre | cantata |
| Carmina burana: "O fortuna": era | Post Romanticism/Impressionism |
| The romantic era was this century | 19th |
| The romantic era began in this city | Paris |
| Classical Melody | ethos, balanced |
| Romantic melody | long and arching, yearning |
| Classical rhythm | straightforward |
| Romantic melody | complex rhythm to express emotion |
| Classical harmony | standardized |
| Romantic harmony | usage of new harmonies to enhance expression |
| Classical form | formal structure, cycle |
| Romantic form | continue on, but enlarged and new forms of emotion introduced |
| Romantic size of orchestration | increase in size of instruments, orchestra; greater expression of emotion |
| Characteristics of romanticism | Personal emotion, individualism, imagination, nationalism, nature, exoticism, longing |
| Nature: country, woods, refreshing | Pastoral |
| Nature: overpowering, thrilling and amazing | Sublime |
| music distinctly from a specific location; folk music and culture, art music | nationalism |
| Employing elements of someone else's nationalism | exoticism |
| Yearn for true love, homeland, family | Longing |
| Franz Schubert's nickname | "Die Schwammersl" - mushroom; known for melodies |
| Franz Schubert's school | First Viennese School (Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert.) |
| Erlking form: | through composed - music follows poetry |
| German art song performed by singer and piano | lied |
| Romantic characteristics in Erlking: | imagination wins overall |
| Schumann wrote a selection of narrative poems all set to music called | a song cycle (related poems from one composer) |
| Robert Schumann's wife was | Clara Schumann, also a composer |
| In wunderschönen Monat Mai romantic characteristics | Longing for love; piano and the voice 'Partnering'; partners the emotional context |
| Chopin's nickname | poet of the piano |
| Chopin had a mistress named | George |
| Mazurka in B-flat Minor is a | mazurka |
| a mazurka is | a short lyric piano piece |
| Mazurka in B-flat minor romantic characteristics | tempo rubato and damper pedal for personal emotion |
| Berlioz fell in love with | Harriet Smithson, a girl in an acting troupe |
| Berlioz tried to kill himself with ____ | opium, which resulted in his Symphony Fantastique |
| Berlioz nickname | first modern orchestra conductor |
| Berlioz conducted (large/small) orchestras | large |
| March to the Scaffold orchestration | huge orchestra for full potential for personal emotion expression |
| idie ficce | fixed idea; a melody or a theme |
| Romantic Char of March to the Scaffold: | rising and falling melody about longing for love |
| Smetana's Moldau about | a river; the moldeau |
| Brahms platonic love with | Clara Schumann |
| Brahms nickname | Great Conservative |
| Brahms wrote mainly | Lied/Lieder -> art songs |
| abstract music/absolute music | not program music, no story to accompany |
| Symphony No. 3 in F form | A section - Contrasting B - back to A |
| Symph 3 in F romantic characteristics | rising and falling of melody; imagination |
| Verdi led the | Italian Independence Movement |
| La donna e mobile plot | Rigoletto wants womanizing duke killed after he goes after his daughter, but kills daughter instead |
| Italian Characteristics | great singers and great melody |
| bel canto | beautiful singing |
| Wagner's renamed operas ____ | music dramas |
| Gesamtkunstwerk | total art work |
| Leitmotif | "Leading melody"; one continuous stream of melody, or one fixed melody |
| Ride of the Valkyries romantic characteristics | German folklore (nationalism) |
| Tchaikovsky composed | ballets |
| Tchaik was known for 3 ballets: | Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker |
| Introduction of this instrument by Tchaik | Celeste |
| Romantic Char of Nutcracker | Trepak: Russian dance (nationalism) |
| Fin de Siecle: | End of the century; start of Post-Romanticism, Impressionism, and Verisimo |
| This country led the rejection of romanticism | France, especially romanticism of Germany |
| Impressionism focussed on this emotion | deep personal emotion |
| Monet painted: | outdoors, and didn't mix paint; subjectively |
| Debussy was an | enfant terrible |
| Debussy was a ___ ____ for change | seminal influence |
| Impressionism is non- | non-western |
| Afternoon of a Faun introduces this new musical pairing | french horns and the harp |
| A faun is | half man, half goat |
| Verisimo: | Realism; present in Italian opera |
| "Un bel di" - aria | a beautiful day |
| Un bel di from | Madame Butterfly |
| Plot of Madame Butterfly: | female protagonist - removes her religion to marry an American |
| Exoticism | taking nationalism from other countries and using it in a different context |
| Modernism began in the | Early 20th century |
| stimulates usage of different rhythm patterns | polyrhythmic |
| Characteristics of modern music: rhythm | greater emphasis, polyrhythm |
| Characteristics of modern music: melody | wide leaps, non singable, non melodic; neorejection of precursors |
| Characteristics of modern music: harmony | skyscraper chords, polytonality, atonality, 12-tone method |
| polytonality | multiple keys at once |
| atonality | no key |
| 12-tone method/serialism | composing with 12 notes; only focuses on the arrangement of those 12 notes |
| Igor Stravinsky nickname | The chameleon |
| His three periods: | 1) Russian nationalism, primitivism, modernism 2) Neo-clacisism 3) 12-tone |
| The rite of spring was a | ballet; celebration of the arrival of spring and a solemn sacrificial rite |
| Choreographer of Rite of Spring | Vaslav Nijinsky; flatfooted ballet |
| Riot following reveal: | May 29, 1913 - Paris rioted; hated ballet so much |
| Schoenberg was part of this school | Second Viennese School of Music (Berg, Webern, Schoenberg) |
| Had three periods | Post-Romanticism/Atonality/12-tone |
| Scprechstimme | spoken voice as melody instead of being melodic |
| Alban Berg nickname | Lyrical disciple |
| Wozzeck was an | opera |
| Plot of Wozzeck | unhappy love for Marie by Wozzeck, kills her and throws her in the river, then drowns himself |
| Expressionism in Wozzeck | focussed on human emotions; prolonged hopelessness |
| Bartók mainly composed | folk song arrangements |
| Ethnomusicology | studying folk songs and music of other cultures |
| Interrupted Intermezzo is unique because | it treated the whole orchestra as soloists |
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