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Test4; MA; Ch. 16-29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the violinist who was so good that it was said he had sold his soul to the devil | Niccolo Paganini |
| a musical setting of a poem for solo voice and piano | Art song |
| a narrative poem set to music | Ballad |
| a series of art songs meant to be performed as a unit | Song cycle |
| Chopin expressed Polish nationalism in his music primarily though his... | polonaises and mazurkas |
| a study piece for piano | Etude |
| a fairly short piano piece portraying a single mood, emotion, or idea | Character piece |
| a piano piece based on a Polish dance | Mazurka |
| was the composer who invented the symphonic poem | Franz Liszt |
| one of the greatest composers of program music; he wrote Symphonie fantastique | Hector Berlioz |
| music that "is composed for the appreciation of musical sound" it does not tell a story | Absolute music |
| was the composer whose theme music was used in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey | Richard Strauss |
| in Symphonie fantasique, Berlioz uses this musical theme that appears in all five movements | Idee fixe |
| music intended to promote the character and interests of a nation | Nationalistic music |
| a piece of program music that is a fairly short, single-movement work for concert-hall performance | Concert overture |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brahms's ____ is designed to _____ the _____. | requiem; console the living |
| wrote the "Unfinished Symphony" | Franz Schubert |
| wrote the symphony nicknamed "From the New World" | Antonin Dvorak |
| was the opera the "Lone Ranger" theme was originally taken from | Rossini's William Tell |
| a style of singing that emphasizes the beauty, purity of tone, & agile vocal technique | Bel canto |
| Verdi's last two operas have librettos based on... | Shakespearean plays |
| The musical Miss Saigon has the same plot as Puccini's opera... | Madama Butterfly |
| is a verismo opera- an Italian operatic point of view favoring realistic subjects taken from everyday, lower-class life | La Bohème |
| French opera with spectacular production elements | Grand opera |
| light French opera with spoken dialogue | Opera comique |
| French opera with plots from romantic drama or fantasy that relied on beautiful melodies | Lyric opera |
| the term Wagner used for his operas | Music drama |
| means universal artwork | Gesamtkunstwerk |
| Melodies used to identify particular characters, objects, and ideas in Wagner's operas | Leitmotifs |
| 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 |
| Debussy's primary goal as a composer was to.... | give pleasure and appeal to the senses |
| has a strong influence on Ravel's musical compositions | Spanish dance rhythms |
| __ ___ __ ____ depicts pre-Christian pagan rites in Russia | The Rite of Spring |
| Igor Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps is... | primitivism |
| Twentieth-century art and music based on symmetrically balanced forms | Neoclassical |
| Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress is an example of... | neoclassicism |
| The earliest phonograph recorded sound on a ... | wax cylinder |
| the first composer to make field recordings of folk music for use in his compositions | Bela Bartok |
| 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 |
| Schubert: "Erlkonig" ("King of Elves") | think horse galloping (old movies), piano, last part is soft |
| Chopin: Nocturne, op. 9, no. 2 | ONLY SOLO PIANO PIECE, think old jewelry box with ballerina, sleep music |
| 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 |
| Smetana: "The Moldau" | beginning: 2 flutes (water) & violins (raindrops) |
| Tchaikovsky: Overture from Romeo and Juliet | beginning: funeral march; then Love scene (you know); then Fight scene |
| Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, I | ONLY one where VIOLINIST IS THE SOLOISTS |
| Brahms: A German Requiem "How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" | ONLY one with a BIG CHOIR SINGING (think church) |
| Dvarok: "From the New World" Symphony no. 9 in E minor, IV | beginning sounds like JAWS |
| Verdi: "O Earth Goodbye" from Aida | aggravating singing (first woman then man) |
| Puccini: "Si, mi chiamano Mimi" from la Boheme | SAYS "SI, MI ChIAMANO MIMI"; pretty violin part |
| Wagner: "Grane, mein Ross!" ("Grane, My Horse!") | very dark, THUNDER ROLLING, WOMAN singing OPERA (loud then soft) |
| Debussy: Prelude to "Afternoon of a faun" | think bambi walking through the forest; LOW FLUTE at beginning that gets LOUDER & adds a HARP |
| Stravinksy: Rite of Spring "Dance of the Young Girls" | pulsing/throbbing music, think indian |
| Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, "Interrupted Intermezzo" IV | JUMPS OUT at you from very beginning then just flute (think INSIDIOUS) |
| Schoenberg: "Der Mondfleck" (Moonfleck) no. 18 from Moonstruck Pierre | weid music, spits out the "FLECK" at BEGINNING |
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