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PBHS Music

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Symphony No. 5   Beethoven (Ludwig Von)  
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1812 Overture   Tchaikovsky  
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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik   Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus)  
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Toccata and Fugue in D Minor   Bach (Johann Sebastian) (Baroque)  
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William Tell   Rossini  
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Canon in D   Pachelbel  
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Blue Danube Walz   J. Strauss (Johann)  
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Carmina Burana: O Fortuna   Orff (Carl)  
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Also Sprach Zarathustra   R. Strauss (Richard)  
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Orpheus in the Underworld: Infernal Galop   Offenbach  
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Messiah   Handel (George Frideric)  
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Carmen   Bizet  
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Gayane: Sabre Dance   Khachaturian  
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Symphony No. 9 in D Minor   Beethoven  
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Pomp and Circumstance (March No.1)   Elgar  
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Peer Gynt Suite   Grieg (Edvard--Norwegian)  
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La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours   Ponchielli  
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Hungarian Rhapsodies   Liszt (Franz--Hungarian)  
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A Midsummer Night's Dream   Mendelssohn (Felix)  
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Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Flight of the Bumblebee   Rimsky-Korsakov  
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Rhapsody in Blue   Gershwin (George)  
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Moonlight Sonata   Beethoven  
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Bolero   Ravel (Maurice)  
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The Nutcracker   Tchaikovsky  
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Imperial March   John Williams  
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The Magic Flute   Mozart  
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Fur Elise (Bagatelle in A Minor--piano solo)   Beethoven  
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Lakme'- Flower Duet   Delibes  
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Rodeo   Copland (Aaron)  
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Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries   Wagner  
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Cantata 147: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring   Bach  
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Funeral March   Chopin  
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Pictures At An Exhibition   Mussorgsky (Modest)  
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Marriage of Figaro   Mozart  
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Stars and Stripes Forever   Sousa (John Philip)  
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Lohengrin: Bridal Chorus   Wagner  
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The Four Seasons   Vivaldi  
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Minuet in G   Beethoven  
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Air on the G String   Bach  
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The Barber of Seville   Rossini  
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Lullaby   Brahms  
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini   Rachmaninov  
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Fanfare For The Common Man   Copland  
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Thieving Magpie Overture   Rossini  
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Brandenburg Concertos   J.S. Bach  
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Peter and the Wolf   Prokofiev  
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Romeo and Juliet (symphony)   Tchaikovsky  
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Rigoletto   Verdi  
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Carnival of the Animals   Saint-Saens (Camille)  
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Clair De Lune   Debussy  
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Sleeping Beauty (ballet)   Tchaikovsky  
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Washington Post March   Sousa  
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Colonel Bogey March   Ricketts  
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Il Trovatore (The troubador)   Verdi  
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Tritsch-Tratsch Polka   Strauss (Johann)  
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Water Music   Handel  
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Turandot   Puccini  
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Boris Godunov   Mussorgsky  
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LaBoheme   Puccini  
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Madame Butterfly   Puccini  
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La Traviata   Verdi  
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Aida   Verdi  
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Swan Lake (Ballet)   Tchaikovsky  
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Radetzky March   Strauss (Johann Sr.)  
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Finlandia   Sibelius (Finnish)  
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Unfinished Symphony   Schubert  
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Surprise Symphony   Haydn  
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The Art of Fugue (Monothematic Cycle)   Bach  
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The Well-tempered Clavier   Bach  
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Enigma Variations   Elgar  
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Peter Grimes   Britten  
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West Side Story   Bernstein (Leonard)  
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Lucia di Lammermoor   Donizetti  
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun   Claude DeBussy  
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Bugler's Dream   Arnaud  
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Night On Bald Mountain   Mussorgsky  
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Entry Of The Gladiators   Fucik  
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Palladio   Jenkins  
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Rondo Alla Turca   Mozart  
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The Mikado   Gilbert and Sullivan  
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The Threepenny Opera   Kurt Weill (Vial)  
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The Anvil Chorus   from Il Trovatore by Verdi "The troubadore"--Depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn  
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The "London Symphonies"   Haydn  
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Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet   Haydn  
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Eugene Onegin (Opera)   Tchaikovsky  
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Pathetique Symphony (His last)   Tchaikovsky  
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"Scenes from Childhood" AND "Rhenish" Symphony   Robert Schumann (wife, Clara) German Romantic composer  
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Danced to Hava Nagila at mitzvahs, weddings, etc.   the Horah  
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Der Rosenkavelier (The Knight of the Rose)   Richard Strauss  
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Also Sprach Zarathustra (Used in Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey)   Richard Strauss  
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2nd Largest in the String Family   Cello  
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The Pirates of Penzance   Gilbert and Sullivan  
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Mimi (seamstress) dies of tuberculosis   La Boheme  
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Broadway musical with song: Springtime for Hitler   The Producers  
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In this opera, Count Almaviva tries to make Rosina fall in love with him posing as Lindoro   The Barber of Seville  
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The "barber" (Figaro) admits his love for "the Countess" Susanna   The Marriage of Figaro  
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Clock Symphony   Haydn  
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Miracle Symphony   Haydn  
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"God Bless America" (song)   Irving Berlin  
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folk songs--"Oh,Susanna" "Camptown Races" "Swanee River" "Old Folks at Home"   Stephen Foster  
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Surprise Symphony   Haydn  
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"Battle Hymn of the Republic"   Howe  
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Drumroll Symphony   Haydn  
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Symphony #41--The Jupiter Symphony   Mozart  
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The Phantom of the Opera (Musical)   Andrew Lloyd Weber  
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My Fair Lady (Musical)   Lerner and Loewe  
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Evita   Andrew Lloyd Weber  
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The Sound of Music   Rodgers and Hammerstein  
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Cats   Andrew Lloyd Weber Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S.Eliot  
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Oklahoma   Rodgers and Hammerstein  
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"My Old Kentucky Home"   Stephen Foster Opening ceremony--Kentucky Derby (Churchill Downs)in Louisville, KY  
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Tosca   Puccini  
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Most famous cellist of the 19th Century, Spanish cellist _______. Currently the most famous is ______ who won this medal.   Pablo Casals--Spanish Yo-Yo Ma (American but born in France--won Presidential Medal of Freedom)  
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The Happy Farmer (song)   Schumann, Robert  
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Arabesque   Debussy, Claude  
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Sheherazade   Rimsky-Korsakov  
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(Military) Polonais   Chopin  
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Holberg Suite   Grieg  
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Minute Walz   Chopin  
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Ave Maria   Schubert, Franz  
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Revolutionary Etude   Chopin  
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Slavonic Dances   Dvorak  
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Which Beethoven Symphony is the Choral Symphony?   9th  
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Which Beethoven symphony is the Eroica Symphony?   3rd (Napoleon story)  
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Which Beethoven symphony is the Pastoral Symphony?   6th  
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Appalachian Spring   Copland  
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The Planets   Holst  
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Porgy and Bess   George Gershwin  
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Symphony of a Thousand   Gustav Mahler  
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A German Requiem   Brahms  
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The Flying Dutchman   Wagner  
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Amahl and the Night Visitors   Gian-Carlo Menotti  
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South Pacific   Rodgers and Hammerstein  
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Into the Woods   Sondheim  
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle   Bartok  
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The Bartered Bride   Smetena  
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Sweeney Todd   Sondheim  
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Don Quixote became the what musical?   Man of La Mancha  
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Symphony Fantastique   Hector Berlioz  
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Billy Budd   Benjamin Britten  
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The Turn of the Screw   Britten  
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra   Britten  
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Paul Bunyan   Britten  
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Man of La Mancha's squire?   Sancho Panza  
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Symphony from the New World; New World Symphony   Dvorak  
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(The) Rite of Spring   Igor Stravinsky  
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(The) Firebird (Suite)   Stravinsky  
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Petrushka   Stravinsky  
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This piece by Stravinsky started a riot because of the Pagan worship depicted   (The) Rite of Spring  
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Tales of Hoffmann   Offenbach  
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In the Hall of the Mountain King is a segment of   Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg  
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Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer   Scott Joplin (Ragtime)  
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"Easter Parade" and "White Christmas"   Irving Berlin also the musical "Annie Get Your Gun"  
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Ethiopian princess captured and taken into slavery in Egypt   Aida  
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Cio-Cio San,a Japanese geisha, marries Naval Officer Pinkerton in Nagasaki. Their son "Trouble" is given to Pinkerton and Kate.   Madame Butterfly  
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Salome is an opera by   Richard Strauss  
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King Herod gives head of Jokanaan to her. She is killed by Herod's soldiers, crushed by shields.   Salome  
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Term for the text of an opera.   Libretto  
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Gangs, the Jets (white gang) taunt Sharks (Puerto Rican gang)(Romeo and Juliet--Tony and Maria)   West Side Story  
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Elektra (opera)   Richard Strauss  
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Agamemnon(King of Mycenae) murdered by Klytomnestra. Daughter of Agamemnon vows vengeance.   Elektra by Richard Strauss  
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Opera House in Milan where many famous operas debuted   La Scala  
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Song of the Earth   Gustav Mahler  
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Each musician snuffs out his candle and leaves at the end of the ____ Symphony by Joseph _____.   Farewell Symphony by Haydn  
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An American in Paris   Gershwin  
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Father of the Blues   W.C. Handy  
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St. Louis Blues   Handy  
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Memphis Blues   Handy  
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The Creation (an oratorio)   Haydn  
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Work based on Genesis and Paradise Lost by Joseph Haydn   The Creation  
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Tafelmusik   Telemann  
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A collection of music to accompany meals by Telemann   Tafelmusik  
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A Swiss patriot tries to free his country from Austrian occupation   William Tell (Rossini)  
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A disfigured man, Erik, falls in love with Christine a French opera singer. He calls her the Angel of Music sent by her father. Chandelier crash!   Phantom of the Opera (Webber)  
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Children of a woodcutter with an abusive wife leaves them in forest to be captured by Witch who intends to consume them!   Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck  
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Cosi fan tutte   Mozart opera  
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Tristan and Isolde   Wagner opera  
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Story of Eva Peron wife of Juan Peron, who was president of Argentina   Evita by Webber  
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Near the Forbidden City,edict that any prince wishing to marry the cold Princess ____ must answer three riddles. Death if he fails.Prince Calaf passes but cold _______ refuses(opera unfinished at Puccini's death)   Turandot by Puccini  
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St. Matthew Passion   Bach  
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Little Organ (Book)   Bach  
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Ode to Joy is within which of Beethoven's symphonies?   Ninth (choral)  
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songs--Alexander's Ragtime Band; Puttin' on the Ritz   Irving Berlin  
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Kaddish (Symphony no. 3   Bernstein  
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Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor then Boston Pops Orchestra 1930-1979. Awarded Medal of Freedom   Arthur Fiedler  
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songs-Give My Regards to Broadway; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Over There; You're A Grand Old Flag   George M. Cohan given Congressional Medal of Honor  
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Don Giovanni   Mozart opera  
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Symphony No. 9 "Great"   Schubert  
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Musical based on the true story of the singing Von Trapp family escaping Nazi take over of Austria by climbing the Alps into Switzerland   The Sound of Music  
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This evil womanizer is given one last chance to repent by the ghost of the man he killed,Commendatore. Because he doesn't care he is sucked into hell by evil spirits.   Don Giovanni  
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Set in Japan, Nanki-Poo, the son, leaves to escape a bad marriage with Katisha and meets beautiful Yum-Yum he wants to marry.   The Mikado (or) The Town of Titipu; Nanki-Poo's father is the Mikado Gilbert and Sullivan  
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Inventor of the 12-tone technique   Schoenberg  
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12-tone technique also called   dodecaphony  
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Curly, Laurie, Aunt Eller, Jud, and Ado Annie   Oklahoma  
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Frederic meets Mabel, daughter of Major-General Stanley. Frederic must apprentice as a pirate until his 21st birthday, but he was born in a leap year...63 years to go   The Pirates of Penzance  
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Love of American nurse at a naval base in WWII with plantation owner with mixed-race children and a U.S. Lieutenant in love with an Asian woman. Story about racial prejudice.   South Pacific  
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"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" "Some Enchanted Evening" "You've Got to be Carefully Taught"   South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein  
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The King and I   Rodgers and Hammerstein  
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Mrs. Anna comes with her son to Bangkok to teach the King of Siam's children   The King and I  
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The Music Man   Meredith Wilson  
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Tannhauser   Wagner  
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Falstaff   Verdi  
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat   Webber  
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Jesus Christ Superstar   Webber  
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Wagner's cycle of 4 epic operas   The Ring of the Nibelung  
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The Ring of the Nibelung operas   The Rhine Gold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, Twilight of the Gods  
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Comic opera based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Henry IV" about a fat, old knight seeking ways to steal money; Alice Ford; Nanetta   Falstaff  
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A disabled black beggar in Catfish Row attempts to rescue Bess from violent Crown and the drug-dealer Sportin' Life   Porgy and Bess by Gershwin (George)  
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"Summertime" "I Got Plenty 'O Nuttin" "It Ain't Necessarily So"   Porgy and Bess  
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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"   said by Puck who put a love potion on the eyelids of the wrong man in A Midsummer Night's Dream  
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Marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus and Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta   A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn for Shakespeare's play; a new adaptation/translation by Schoenberg)  
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Nick Bottom given a donkey's head by Puck. Puck (Robin Goodfellow) Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius   A Midsummer Night's Dream  
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Goldberg Variations   Bach  
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St. Matthew Passion   Bach  
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Candide (comic opera)   Bernstein  
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On The Town (musical)   Bernstein  
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In the Steppes of Central Asia (symphonic poem) Also composed the opera, Prince Igor   Borodin  
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The Rape of Lucretia   Lord Benjamin Britten  
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"Over There"   George Michael Cohan  
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"You're A Grand Old Flag"   Cohan  
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H.M.S. Pinafore   Gilbert and Sullivan  
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The captain's daughter, Josephine, supposed to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She is in love with sailor, Ralph Rackstraw.   H.M.S. Pinafore (The Lass That Loved A Sailor)  
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Prince Tamino in pursuit of the pure Pamina. Bird-man, Papageno with magic bells. Sarastro (light) triumphs over Queen of the Night and Monastos (dark)   The Magic Flute  
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Prince Tamino has a ________ and Pagageno has ________.   Magic flute; magic bells  
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Don Alfonso bets Ferrando and Guglielmo that their sweethearts Dorabella and Fiordiligi are "all women are like that," fickle.   Cosi fan tutte by Mozart  
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Disabled boy and mother go with 3 splendid Magi to give gifts to a child.King Melchior gives back stolen gold to mother,boy gives Holy child his crutch,boy's leg healed!   Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti  
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Requiem   Mozart  
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Les Miserables (musical)   Scheonberg  
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Major-General's song   Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan  
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H.M.S. Pinafore subtitle or alternate title   The Lass That Loved A Sailor  
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Don Alfonso   Cossi Fan Tutte  
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Der Rosenkavelier means   The Knight of the Rose by Richard Stauss  
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Verdi's only comic opera   Falstaff  
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Verdi's last opera   Falstaff  
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habanera is a song in   Carmen (Bizet)  
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Amahl and the Night Visitors   Menotti  
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Romeo and Juliet (ballet)   Prokofiev  
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