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78 Cards in this Set
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"Symphony #5 in C minor"
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Beethoven (Classical)
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Created great song cycles
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Schubert (Austrian/Romantic)
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"Symphony Fantastique"
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Berlioz (French/Romantic)
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Was a vigorous anti Semite
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Wagner (German/Romantic)
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Created the term "Idee Fixe"
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Berlioz (French/Romantic)
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"Aida"
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Verdi (Italian/Romantic)
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"The Ride of the Valkeyrie"
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Wagner (German/Romantic)
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Created the term "Leit Motif"
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Wagner (German/Romantic)
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Becomes the symbol for Italian thought.
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Verdi (Italian/Romantic)
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"The Elf King"
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Schubert (Austrian/Romantic)
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Commissioned Gregorian Chant
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Pope Gregory (Middle Ages)
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Created a new genre of music - called Oratorio which is like an opera but with no story being told.
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Handel (German/Baroque)
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"Messiah" is greatest work.
First part: Foretelling of Messiah Second part: Jesus Third part: New Testament; Future |
Handel (German/Baroque)
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Priest in Italy which was a home for orphan girls
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Vivaldi (Italian/Baroque)
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Used programmatic music, popular in the 1800s.
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Vivaldi (Italian/Baroque)
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"The Four Seasons"
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Vivaldi (Italian/Baroque)
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Organum - rhythmic notes with polyphony
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Middle Ages
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Madrigal - secular vocal composition
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Renaissance
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"Allelura" was responsorial/ternary
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Hildegard (Middle Ages)
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Motet - polytextual organum
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Middle Ages
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Strophic - same melody repeated with each stanza
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Middle Ages
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Acapella
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Renaissance
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Word Painting
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Renaissance
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Homo-rhythmic
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Renaissance
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Motet
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Were in all periods.
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Composer of sacred music. Culmination of Renaissance polyphony
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Palestrina (Italian/Renaissance)
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"Well Tempered Clavier"
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J.S. Bach (German/Baroque)
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Rondo - A,B,A,C,A,D,A,E,A
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Haydn (Classical/Baroque)
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Entered service of Esterhazys which was a very wealthy family
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Haydn (Classical/Baroque)
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Oratorios - "The Creation" and "The Seasons"
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Haydn (Classical/Baroque)
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The Art of Fugue
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J.S. Bach (German/Baroque)
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Best known symphony - "Surprise" with sudden fortissimo.
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Haydn (Austrian/Classical)
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Symphonies are "spiritual birthplace of Beethoven's style"
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Haydn (Austrian/Classical)
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Child prodigy. Performed in court of Archbishop of Salzburg.
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Dismissed after rebelling against social restrictions. Exiled
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Wrote "Don Giovanni"
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Wrote "The Magic Flute"
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Wrote Requiem Mass before death
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Wrote the Fantasia and the Sonata.
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Body thrown and died obscure
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Was ill and died early after writing Requiem Mass
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Mozart (Austrian/Classical)
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Played for Mozart during a visit to Vienna
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Functioned under patronage system. Paid handsomely. Emergence of middle class
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Pope Marcellus
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Renaissance
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King Louie XIV
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Baroque
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"Supreme Architect" in music
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Retired to a summer resort due to loss of hearing.
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Took lesson from Haydn,
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Cyclical form.
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Wrote Third Symphony for Napolean but took it away
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Beethoven (German/Classical)
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Operas with fire and flying people
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Wagner (German/Romantic)
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Used a generally diatonic rather than chromatic musical idiom.
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Verdi (Italian/Romantic)
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composed "Night on Bald Mountain"
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Moussorgsky (Russian/Romantic)
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Embraced Russian nationalism. Strove to create a unique Russian musical identity.
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Moussorgsky (russian/romantic)
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one of the five (fuchka)
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Moussorgsky (russian/romantic)
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Ban on his music during Nazi era in most of Europe
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Mahler (Austrian/Romantic)
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Innovative productions and insistence on highest performance standards.
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Mahler (Austrian/Romantic)
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Made significant contributions to modern orchestra with Treatise on Strumentation.
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Berlioz (French/Romantic)
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Virtuoso pianist. Died at age 39. Most compositions written for piano solo. (Piano Sonata)
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Chopin (Polish/Romantic)
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Hand injury prevented from becoming virtuoso pianist.
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Robert Shumann (German/Romantic)
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Attempted suicide and confined to mental institution.
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Robert Schumann (German/Romantic)
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61 year concert career. changed the format and repertoire of the piano recital and tastes.
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Clara Schumann (German/Romantic)
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Premeired music to see what it sounded like.
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Clara Schumann (German/Romantic)
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Wrote Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, and Eugene Onegin.
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Tchaikovsky (Russian/Romantic)
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Died at 53 because of private turmoil, some attributed death to suicide.
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Tchaikovsky (russian/romantic)
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Formal western oriented training set him apart from the Five
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Tchaikovsky (Russian/Romantic)
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Master of indeterminate/chance music.
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John Cage (20th Century)
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Took romantic music to an absurd extreme.
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John Cage (20th Century)
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Combined electronic and legitimate traditional music.
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Tod Machover (20th Century)
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Female composer. Traditional with modern harmonics
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Libby Larsen (20th Century)
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Born and raised in New Orleans. Excelled at Jazz
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Louie Armstrong (20th Century)
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Started as a jazz composer but became one of the greatest American composers.
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Duke Ellington (20th Century)
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Began as a popular composer and began to stretch out into jazz. Wrote Rhapsody in Blue.
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George Gershwin (20th Century)
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great trumpet player and organizer. During the Bebop era.
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Dizzy Gillespie (20th Century)
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West Side Story
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Leonard Berstein (20th Century)
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Middle Age
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Hildegard
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Rnaissance
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Palestrina
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Baroque
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Bach, Vivaldi, Handel
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