Test4; MA; Ch. 16-29
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| the violinist who was so good that it was said he had sold his soul to the devil | Niccolo Paganini
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| a musical setting of a poem for solo voice and piano | Art song
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| a narrative poem set to music | Ballad
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| a series of art songs meant to be performed as a unit | Song cycle
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| Chopin expressed Polish nationalism in his music primarily though his... | polonaises and mazurkas
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| a study piece for piano | Etude
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| a fairly short piano piece portraying a single mood, emotion, or idea | Character piece
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| a piano piece based on a Polish dance | Mazurka
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| was the composer who invented the symphonic poem | Franz Liszt
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| one of the greatest composers of program music; he wrote Symphonie fantastique | Hector Berlioz
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| music that "is composed for the appreciation of musical sound" it does not tell a story | Absolute music
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| was the composer whose theme music was used in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey | Richard Strauss
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| in Symphonie fantasique, Berlioz uses this musical theme that appears in all five movements | Idee fixe
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| music intended to promote the character and interests of a nation | Nationalistic music
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| a piece of program music that is a fairly short, single-movement work for concert-hall performance | Concert overture
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| Much of his depression and many of his problems stemmed from being homosexual in a society that did not recognize it; his most performed work is probably The Nutcracker | Tchaikovsky
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| Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor differs from classical concertos in that it has the _____ introduce the ____ ____ before the _____ plays it. | soloists; first theme; orchestra
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| Brahms's ____ is designed to _____ the _____. | requiem; console the living
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| wrote the "Unfinished Symphony" | Franz Schubert
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| wrote the symphony nicknamed "From the New World" | Antonin Dvorak
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| was the opera the "Lone Ranger" theme was originally taken from | Rossini's William Tell
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| a style of singing that emphasizes the beauty, purity of tone, & agile vocal technique | Bel canto
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| Verdi's last two operas have librettos based on... | Shakespearean plays
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| The musical Miss Saigon has the same plot as Puccini's opera... | Madama Butterfly
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| is a verismo opera- an Italian operatic point of view favoring realistic subjects taken from everyday, lower-class life | La Bohème
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| French opera with spectacular production elements | Grand opera
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| light French opera with spoken dialogue | Opera comique
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| French opera with plots from romantic drama or fantasy that relied on beautiful melodies | Lyric opera
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| the term Wagner used for his operas | Music drama
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| means universal artwork | Gesamtkunstwerk
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| Melodies used to identify particular characters, objects, and ideas in Wagner's operas | Leitmotifs
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| The movies that embrace the same dramatic elements of good against evil and the search for power as Wagner's Ring Cycle are... | The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars
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| Debussy's primary goal as a composer was to.... | give pleasure and appeal to the senses
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| has a strong influence on Ravel's musical compositions | Spanish dance rhythms
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| __ ___ __ ____ depicts pre-Christian pagan rites in Russia | The Rite of Spring
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| Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps is... | primitivism
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| Twentieth-century art and music based on symmetrically balanced forms | Neoclassical
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| Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress is an example of... | neoclassicism
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| The earliest phonograph recorded sound on a ... | wax cylinder
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| the first composer to make field recordings of folk music for use in his compositions | Bela Bartok
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| Many composer used ___ music of _____ villages to express _____ because they believed the people of those villages were ____ since they had never been anywhere else. | folk music, isolated, nationalism, untarnished
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| Schubert: "Erlkonig" ("King of Elves") | think horse galloping (old movies), piano, last part is soft
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| Chopin: Nocturne, op. 9, no. 2 | ONLY SOLO PIANO PIECE, think old jewelry box with ballerina, sleep music
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| Berlioz: "Dream of a Witches Sabbath" from Symphonie fantastique, V | First Part -- sound likes witches laughing, gets kinda soft then loud violins; Second Part -- bells tolling, tuba playing one note at a time for the beginning
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| Smetana: "The Moldau" | beginning: 2 flutes (water) & violins (raindrops)
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| Tchaikovsky: Overture from Romeo and Juliet | beginning: funeral march; then Love scene (you know); then Fight scene
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| Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, I | ONLY one where VIOLINIST IS THE SOLOISTS
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| Brahms: A German Requiem "How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" | ONLY one with a BIG CHOIR SINGING (think church)
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| Dvarok: "From the New World" Symphony no. 9 in E minor, IV | beginning sounds like JAWS
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| Verdi: "O Earth Goodbye" from Aida | aggravating singing (first woman then man)
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| Puccini: "Si, mi chiamano Mimi" from la Boheme | SAYS "SI, MI ChIAMANO MIMI"; pretty violin part
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| Wagner: "Grane, mein Ross!" ("Grane, My Horse!") | very dark, THUNDER ROLLING, WOMAN singing OPERA (loud then soft)
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| Debussy: Prelude to "Afternoon of a faun" | think bambi walking through the forest; LOW FLUTE at beginning that gets LOUDER & adds a HARP
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| Stravinksy: Rite of Spring "Dance of the Young Girls" | pulsing/throbbing music, think indian
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| Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, "Interrupted Intermezzo" IV | JUMPS OUT at you from very beginning then just flute (think INSIDIOUS)
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| Schoenberg: "Der Mondfleck" (Moonfleck) no. 18 from Moonstruck Pierre | weid music, spits out the "FLECK" at BEGINNING
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