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Quizbowl Music
composers and their works- use this to get the powers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Claire de Lune is in this suite | Suite Bergamasque - Debussy |
| Three Symphonic Sketches - "Play of the Waves" movement | La Mer - Debussy |
| Prelude inspired by a Stephane Mallarme poem | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - Debussy |
| set of concertos dedicated to Vettor Delfino | La Stravaganza - Vivaldi |
| Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio - King Nebuchadnezzar sends Holofernes to seize the town of Bethulia | Juditha Triumphs |
| what Italian composer is known as "the red priest" | Vivaldi |
| first four concertos in the Contest Between Harmony and Invention | The Four Seasons - Vivaldi |
| Vivaldi's concerto in which 2 violas represent barking dogs - also involves singing cuckoos and a sleepy shepard | the Spring Concerto (La Primavera) - part of the Four Seasons |
| Set of 12 concertos, first 4 are the Four Seasons | The Contest Between Harmony and Invention - Vivaldi |
| this Hungarian composer's works are organized by S or S/G numbers | Franz Liszt |
| - symphonic piece for solo piano and orchestra - based of the Gregorian melody "Dies Irae" - contains 30+ glissandi, opens modern and percussive piano | Totentanz - Liszt (english: Dance of the Dead) |
| Liszt wrote this piece and wanted it to be played at his funeral | La Notte |
| what Hungarian composer wrote - Douze Grandes Etudes - Etude no. 5 - Mephisto Waltzes - Hungarian Rhapsody Series | Liszt |
| this Hungarian composer had little finger webbing, allowing him to reach 12 whole steps on the piano- a plaster cast of his hand is in his namesake museum in Budapest | Liszt |
| extended cantata based on prayers by Soren Kierkegaard - climaxes on the words "thou art unchanging" | Prayers of Kierkegaard - Samuel Barber |
| opera, originally 4 acts, cut to 3 acts, libretto by Menotti - contains the song "Must the Winter Come so Soon?" -about a NYE party in which the title character becomes engaged to her past lover's son- both men are named Anatol | Vanessa - Samuel Barber |
| Samuel Barber piece for 8 part choir, in Bb minor, contains a choral arrangement of the second movement of his Adagio for Strings | Agnus Dei - Samuel Barber |
| what American composer wrote - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - Adagio for Strings - the opera Antony and Cleopatra (based on the Shakespeare play) | Samuel Barber |
| Opera in which the high priest Sarastro captures the Queen of the Night's daughter, Pamina Prince Tamino is sent to save her, Tamino and Pamina complete trials to be initiated | The Magic Flute - Mozart |
| Opera in which Tamino's companion, Papageno, is a birdcatcher, who fails the trials that Tamino and Pamina completed, but finds love with Papagena | The Magic Flute - Mozart |
| Symphony in C minor, written in 1808, contains the 'short-short-short- long' fate motif nicknamed "Fate Symphony" Final movement has a long coda that ends in a presto tempo, with 29 bars of FF chards | Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 |
| this French composer submitted a fugue with parallel 5ths and ended on a major 7th chord to the Prix de Rome (a French scholarship for arts students) but was eliminated | Ravel |
| choreographic poem for orchestra by Ravel originally a ballet describes the end of a century | La Valse |
| this French composer wrote - Piano Concerto for Land Hand (written for Paul Wittgenstein) - Pavane for a Dead Princess - Bolero | Ravel |
| name the type of piece/work - Mozart wrote 6 dedicated to Haydn - Haydn wrote 68, developed its modern form -Razumovsky by Beethoven - Death and the Maiden by Schubert | String Quartets |
| ballet in which Sigfried was tricked into marrying Odile, 1st act ends with a Dance With Goblets At the end, Sigfried and Odette commit suicide by drowning in the title lake Odette is turned into a swan by the sorcerer Von Rothbart | Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky |
| this incidental music uses the overture from the opera Alfonso und Estrella, and part of the song Der Liedende | Incidental Music to Rosamunde - Schubert |
| this opera has no spoken dialogue, Mauregato has usurped the throne from King Froila, Mauregato said that only the man who has the 'chain of Eurich' can marry his daughter Estrella, this causes his general Adolfo to start a coup | Alfonso und Estrella - Schubert |
| in this opera, Alfonso, the son of the banished king Froila falls in love with Estrella, and is given permission to marry her by her father, the current king Mauregato, because Alfonso has the Chain of Eurich- Alfonso and Mauregato put down Adolfo's coup | Alfonso und Estrella - Schubert |
| what Austrian composer wrote - death and the Maiden - Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel - Der Erlkoenig - Unfinished Symphony - Alfonso und Estrella - Incidental Music to Rosamunde | Schubert |
| what German composer wrote -Variations on a theme by Haydn - Hungarian Dances - Academic Festival Overture -A German Requiem | Brahms |
| This composer's 1st symphony in C minor is nicknamed "Beethoven's 10th" he was close with Clara Schumann | Brahms |
| what Hungarian composer wrote - Cantata Profana - Concerto for Orchestra - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celestra - Duke Bluebeard's Castle | Bartok |
| this opera by Verdi contains the song "Va, Pensiero," the chorus of the Hebrew Slaves | Nabucco |
| this opera is about Di Luna's persecution of Manrico and contains the "Anvil Chorus" | Il Travatore - Verdi |
| the opera about radames, amneris, and the title Ethiopian princess | Aida- Verdi |
| this opera is about the Duke of Mantua and his Jester - contains the song "La donna e mobile" | Rigoletto - Verdi |
| the "Nimrod" Variation is part of what set of Variations by Elgar | Enigma Variations |
| what British composer wrote - Severn Suite (dedicated to George Bernard Shaw) - The Wand of Youth - Cockaigne Overture - the Dream of Gerontius - Pomp and Circumstance | Elgar |
| this opera has the aria "Nessun Dorma" (No one shall sleep) the title princess will marry the man who can answer her 3 riddles- those who try and can't are killed,Prince Calaf of Tartary answers correctly marries the princess when she can't find his name | Turandot - Puccini |
| the spiritual "Goin Home" is adapted from this symphony's largo movement, its composer compared its basis to the music of Scotland, the Scherzo references a feast in the Song of Hiawatha | New World Symphony - Antonin Dvorak |
| this Philip Glass opera is based on a novel by John M Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians |
| the "Portrait Trilogy" by Philip Glass consists of these 3 operas about an Egyptian Pharaoh, Gandhi, and Einstein | Akhenaten, Satyagraha, and Einstein on the Beach |
| what American composer wrote - Waiting for the Barbarians - White Raven - Galileo Galilei - Akhenaten - Satyagraha - Einstein on the Beach | Philip Glass |
| father of the string quartet | Haydn |
| "The Emperor" String Quartet No. 62 | Haydn |
| what Austrian composer wrote the masses - Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) - Missa Sunt Bona Mixta | Haydn |
| performers gradually leave the stage and snuff their candles in this Haydn symphony | Farewell Symphony (No. 45) |
| this is the second of Haydn's 12 London Symphonies, and nicknamed for the sudden fortissimo chord in the middle of the piano opening of the 2nd movement | Surprise Symphony (No. 94) |
| what British composer wrote the operas - Albert Herring - Death in Venice - Peter Grimes - Billy Budd | Britten |
| this opera was based on a novel of the same name by Thomas Mann, and it ends with Von Aschenbach's confession of love to Tadzio | Death in Venice- Britten |
| what British composer wrote - Hymn to St. Cecilia - War Requiem - Variations on a theme of Purcell - A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | Britten |
| this opera was based on a George Crabbe poem about the title fisherman, who is suspected of killing his apprentice | Peter Grimes- Britten |
| what French composer wrote - Les Nuits D'ete - Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony | Berlioz |
| this Berlioz symphony honors those who fought in the July Revolution, and borrowed music from his abandoned opera, Les Francs-Juges | Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony |
| this symphony was written to express the composer's unrequited love for Harriet Smithson, the actress who played Ophelia in a performance of Hamlet he saw it contains "Scene in the Fields" and "March to the Scaffold" | Symphonie Fantastique- Berlioz |
| This Berlioz work has parts for 4 solo voices, a full 7 part chorus, a large children's chorus, and orchestra it was inspired by Goethe's Faust | The Damnation of Faust |
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