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Music History 2 - Exam 3
Composers, compositions, terms
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Undergraduate 2
12/16/2007

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Variations on a theme by Haydn
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Brahms
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Tragic Overture
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Brahms
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Academic Festival overture
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Brahms
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Four major romantic symphonies without programs
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Brahms
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Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
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Antonín Dvořák
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Overture-fantasy (Romeo and Juliet)
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Tchaikovsky
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Swan Lake
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Tchaikovsky
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Sleeping Beauty Ballet
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Tchaikovsky
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The Nutcracker ballet
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Tchaikovsky
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Symphony no. 6 (Pathetique)
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Tchaikovsky
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Les Huguenots
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Orpheus in the Underworld
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Jacques Offenbach
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Die Fledermaus
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Johann Straus
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Carmen
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Georges Bizet
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Les Troyens
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Berlioz
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La Cenerentola
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Rossini
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THe Barber of Seville
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Rossini
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Guillaume Tell
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Rossini
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The Elixir of Love
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Donizetti
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Norma
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Bellini
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Il trovatore
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Verdi
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La Traviata
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Verdi
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Aida
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Verdi
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Meyerbe's first operas set the pattern for musical treatment, using every available technique to dramatize the action and please the public.
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Jacques Offenbach
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Established a ca-can dance for the gods in Orpheus in the Underworld. His work influenced developments in comic opera in England, Vienna, the United States and elsewhere.
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Charles Gounod
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Helped establish the opera genre "Lyric Opera"
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Georges Bizet
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Began to combine exoticism and romanticism.
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Gaetano Donizetti
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Wrote all different types of music, specialized in opera, and even moreso specialized in fucking with the audience's head via different harmonies.
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Vincenzo Bellini
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Known for long, sweeping, highly embellished, intensely emotional melodies.
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Carl Maria Von Weber
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Established German romantic opera with "Der Freischutz"
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Falstaff
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Verdi
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Der Freischutz
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Carl Maria von Weber
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Tannhauser
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Wagner
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Name the four Operas of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung
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Tristan und Isolde
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Wagner
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Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
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Wagner
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Parsifal
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Wagner
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H.M.S Pinafore
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Gilbert and Sullivan
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The Mikado
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Gilbert and Sullivan
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Ruslan und Lyudmila
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Mikhail Glinka
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Eugene Onegin
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Aleksandr Pushkin
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Boris Godunov
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Capriccio espagnol
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Slavonic Dances
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Antonín Dvořák
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Bartered Bride
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Bedřich Smetana
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Christy's Minstrels
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A scuccessful minstrel troop from the late 19th century. Explored issues of social and political power and of proper and improper behavior through inversions of normal social roles.
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Mikhail Glinka
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THe first Russian composer recognized both by Russians and internationally as an equal of his Western contemporaries. He established his reputation in 1836 with the patriotic, pro-government historical drama A Life For The TSar, the first Russian opera sung throughout.
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Anton Rubinstein
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a virtuoso pianist and prolific composer, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862.
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Tchaikovsky
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Sought to reconcile the nationalist and internationalist tendencies in russian music.
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Mily Balakireve
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Part of the Mighty Handful, leader of the Handful
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Alexander Borodin
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Part of the Mighty Handful, actually a chemist, never finished his works.
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Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
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Part of the Mighty Handful, became a teacher and had to work very hard to surpass his own students.
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Caesar Cui
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Part of the Mighty Handful, composed 14 operas
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Modest Musorgsky
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Part of the Mighty Handful, wrote operas
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Berlioz (dates)
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1803-1869, French, wrote the five-act opera Les Troyens, wrote the text for it himself.
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Mozart (dates/nationality)
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1756-1791, Austria
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Franz Joseph Haydn (dates)
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1732-1809, Austrian
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Franz Peter Schubert (dates)
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1797-1828, German
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Verdi (dates)
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1813-1901, Italian, THE opera writer of the 19th century.
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Puccini (Dates)
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1858-1924 Italian Most successful opera composer after verdi. He began writing operas with a continuous flow as opposed to piece after piece.
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Gioachino Rossini
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1792-1868 Italian By far the most famous/successful composer of the early 1800s. He wrote all different types, and mastered them all as well.
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Grand Opera
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Huge operas where the production was as important as the music.
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Opera Comique
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Used spoken dialogue instead of recitative.
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Lyric Opera
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Developed from opera comique, lyric opera is in beween liht opera and grand opera. Its main appeal is through melody, but the subject matter is usually romantic drama or fantasy.
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Opera bouffe
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Opera that satirized French society since it was not controlled by the government
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Leitmotive
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A musical theme that occurs whenever a character appears.
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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Wagner's concept of combining scenic design, staging, action, and music together to have a collective artwork.
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Wagner's opera house at Bayreuth, Germany
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Incorporated WAgner's ideals for the production of music drama.
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Felix Mendelssohn dates
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1809-1847, German
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Robert Schumann dates
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1810-1856, German
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Fryderyk Chopin dates
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1810-1849, Polish
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Richard Wagner dates
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1813-1883, German
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Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky dates
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1840-1893, Russian
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Modest Musorgsky dates
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1839-1881, Russian
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Franz List dates
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1811-1886, Hungarian
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Johannes Brahms dates
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1833-1897, Austrian
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Rossini Crescendo
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A simultaneous crescendo and accelerando.
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Preghiera
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A prayer scene in an Italian Opera (such as the Ave Maria in Othello).
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Nationalism
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Shared history among a people reflected in art via common storytelling (myths, legends, etc...)
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Vaudeville
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Variety show format. The major form of theatrical entertainment in the US until the talking picture took it over.
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Symphonic Poem (tone poem)
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A one movement programmatic work with sections of contrasting character and tempo, presenting a few themes that are developed, repeated, varied, or transformed.
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Thematic transformation
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The manipulation of thematic material to express diverse moods in a programmatic piece.
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March form
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Form: brief intro (usually 4 m.), two strains or periods, each repeated; a trio in a contrasting key, most often in the subdominant, with an optional intro and two repeated strains; and then a da capo repetition of the march up to the trio.
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Spiritual
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A religious song of southern slaves, passed down through oral tradition.
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The Game
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You Just Lost It.
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