Mat Prep

Front 1

adagio

Back 1

slow; a slow movement; slower than andante, faster than largo

Front 2

allegro

Back 2

lively; rather fast, but not as fast as presto

Front 3

alto

Back 3

a high adult male voice, employing falsetto; a lower female voice

Front 4

andante

Back 4

at moderate speed, between allegro and adagio

Front 5

aria

Back 5

air; song, especially a complex one in an opera or oratorio (Batti, Batti from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni)

Front 6

arpeggio

Back 6

chord (e.g. on a piano) performed spread out

Front 7

Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750

Back 7

late 17th -early 18th century German composer of baroque style; organ music and cantatas (Brandenburg Condertos; St. Matthew Passion)

Front 8

bagatelle

Back 8

short, light piece, often for piano (Beetheven)

Front 9

ballad

Back 9

old song, often a folk song, that tells a story, with the music repeated for each verse (Wagner's The Flying Dutchman)

Front 10

ballet

Back 10

form of dancing, of Italian origin, that usually uses orchestra music, full stage decoration (The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker)

Front 11

baroque

Back 11

1600 to 1750 style of music (Monteverdi, Bach)

Front 12

Bela Bartok
1881-1945

Back 12

20th century Hungarian composer who developed Hungarian national musical style; known for dissonant, atonal sounds (Bluebeard's Castle)

Front 13

bass

Back 13

lowest male voice; the lower regions of musical pitch

Front 14

Ludwig van Beethoven
1770-1827

Back 14

late 18th -early 19th century German composer, considered one of the greatest composers o all time (9 symphonies, including Eroica, Pastoral, the Ninth or Choral; piano concerto Emperor; opera Fidelio)

Front 15

Hector Berlioz
1803-1869

Back 15

19th century French composer (Fantastic Symphony)

Front 16

Leonard Bernstein
1918-1990

Back 16

20th century American conductor and composer (The Age of Anxiety symphony; West Side Story musical)

Front 17

bolero

Back 17

Spanish Dance

Front 18

Aleksandr Porfiryevich Borodin
1833-1887

Back 18

19th century Russian composer (Opera Prince Igor)

Front 19

Johannes Brahms
1833-1897

Back 19

19th century German compoer and pianist known for his sympnonies, piano concertos, and chamber music (First, Second, Third, Fourth symphonies; song Lullaby)

Front 20

Brandenburg Concertos

Back 20

six works by J.S. Bach for varying instrumental combinations

Front 21

Anton Bruckner
1824-1896

Back 21

19th century Austrian composer and organist known for his symphonies

Front 22

buffo (buffa)

Back 22

comic bass, as in an opera

Front 23

cadence

Back 23

a progression of chords giving an effect of closing a sentence

Front 24

cantata

Back 24

an extended choral work, with or without solo voices, and usually with orchestral accompaniment

Front 25

Pablo Casals
1876-1973

Back 25

20th Century Spanish Cellest

Front 26

chamber music

Back 26

music intended for a room as distinct from a large hall or theater

Front 27

chanson

Back 27

type of song popular in 14th to 16th century france

Front 28

Frederic Chopin
1810-1849

Back 28

19th century Polish composer known for his piano works

Front 29

chorale

Back 29

a type of traditional German hymn-tune for congregational use; an instrumental piece based on a chorale

Front 30

chord

Back 30

a blending of two or more notes

Front 31

classicism

Back 31

1770s to 1830s period; opposed to romanticism and folk or popular music (Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven)

Front 32

coda

Back 32

section of movement added as a rounding off rather than a structural necessity

Front 33

coloratura

Back 33

agile, florid style of vocal music

Front 34

concerto

Back 34

work making contrasted use of solo instruments and orchestra, generally in 3 movements (Beethoven, Mozart)

Front 35

contralto

Back 35

lowest female singing range

Front 36

Aaron Copland
1900-1990

Back 36

20th century American composer and pianist (opera The Tender Land, Music for the Theater, many fiml scores)

Front 37

Claude Debussy
1862-1918

Back 37

late 19th -early 20th century French impressionist-style composer (opera Pelleas and melisande, The Afternoon of a Faun, La Mer)

Front 38

diminuendo

Back 38

music that slowly becomes softer

Front 39

Antonin Dvorak
1841-1904

Back 39

19th Century Czech (Bohemian) composer known for his symphonies (From the New World)

Front 40

etude

Back 40

an instrumental piece written to demonstrate the facility of the performer

Front 41

fortissimo

Back 41

music played very loudly

Front 42

fugue

Back 42

a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated by different interweaving voices (Bach)

Front 43

George Gershwin
1898-1937

Back 43

20th century American pianist and composer of popular music (Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris)

Front 44

Edvard Grieg
1843-1907

Back 44

19th century Norewgian composer and pianist (music for Peer Gynt)

Front 45

Frideric George Handel
1685-1759

Back 45

late 17th -early 18th century German baroque composer (oratorio Messiah, opera Rinaldo)

Front 46

Franz Joseph Haydn
1732-1809

Back 46

18th century Austrian composer (symphonies The Surprise and The Clock, oratorios The Creation and The Seasons)

Front 47

interval

Back 47

distance between 2 notes insofar as one is higher or lower than the other

Front 48

Zoltan Kodaly
1882-1967

Back 48

late 19th-20th century Hungarian composer; edited Hungarian folk songs (with Bartok) (Psalmas Hungaricus, opera Hary Janos)

Front 49

largo

Back 49

slow

Front 50

lento

Back 50

slow

Front 51

libretto

Back 51

text of an opera or oratorio

Front 52

liederkranz

Back 52

song-cycle (Schumann's Liederkreis)

Front 53

Franz Liszt
1811-1886

Back 53

19th century Hungarian romantic-style pianist and composer (Dante Sonata, The Preludes)

Front 54

madrigal

Back 54

16th -late 17th century composition for several voices

Front 55

Gustav Mahler
1860-1911

Back 55

late 19th -early 20th century Austrian composer and conductor (Symphony of a Thousand)

Front 56

Felix Mendelssohn
1809-1847

Back 56

19th century German composer and conductor (operetta Son and Strnger, Scottis symphony, Elijay, overture to Midsummer Night's Dream)

Front 57

Gian Carlo Menotti
b. 1911

Back 57

20th century Italian-American composer of opera (Amahl and the Night Visitors)

Front 58

Darius Milhaud
1892-1974

Back 58

20th century FRench composer (operas David and Christopher Columbus, ballets Jeux de printemps and Creation of the World)

Front 59

Claudio Monteverdi
1567-1643

Back 59

late 16th -early 17th century Italian composer (opera La favola d'Orfeo)

Front 60

Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791

Back 60

18th century Austrian composer, mainl of operas and piano concertos (Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosi Fan Tutte)

Front 61

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
1839-1881

Back 61

19th century Russian composer (operas Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain)

Front 62

nocturne

Back 62

melancholy compositionfor one or more instruments

Front 63

opera

Back 63

drama in which all or most characters sing and music constitutes a principal element

Front 64

opera buffa

Back 64

comic opera

Front 65

atorio

Back 65

religious compositions for orchestra, chorus and solists

Front 66

Carl Orff
1895-1982

Back 66

20th cnetury German composer and conductor (operas: Oedipus the Tyrant, incidental music and choral works, Songs of Catullu, Carmina Burana)

Front 67

Johann Pachelbel
1653-1706

Back 67

17th century German organist and composer of keyboard music

Front 68

Nicolo Paganini
1782-1840

Back 68

late 18th -early 19th century Italian violinist and composer (Bell Rondo, The Carnival of Venice)

Front 69

presto

Back 69

fast

Front 70

Sergey Sergeyevich Prolofiev
1891-1953

Back 70

20th century Russian composer and pianist (Peter and the Wolf)

Front 71

quartet

Back 71

four musical instruments played together

Front 72

Giacomo Puccini
1858-1924

Back 72

late 19th -early 20th century Italian composer (operas Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca)

Front 73

Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
1873-1943

Back 73

late 19th -earlh 20th century Russian composer and pianist (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, The Isle of the Dead)

Front 74

Jean-Phillipe Rameau
1683-1764

Back 74

18th centurhy French composer and organist (Castor et Pollux)

Front 75

Maurice Joseph Ravel
1875-1937

Back 75

late 19th -early 20th century French composer (Bolero, Gaspard de la Nuit, Spanish Rhapsody)

Front 76

Richard Rodgers
1902-1979

Back 76

20th cnetury American composer of light music; worked with writers Hart and Hammerstein (The Sound of Music, A Connecticut Yankee, Oklahoma)

Front 77

rondo

Back 77

form of composition in which one section recurs intermittently

Front 78

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
1792-1868

Back 78

19th century Italian composer (operas The Barber of Seville, Othello, William Tell)

Front 79

Anton Rubinstein
1829-1894

Back 79

20th century Polish-born American pianist

Front 80

Domenico Scarlatti
1685-1757

Back 80

late 17th -early 18th century Italian composer, chiefly of opera

Front 81

Arnold Schoenberg
1874-1951

Back 81

20th century Austrian-American composer (Ode to Napoleon, opera Moses and Aaron)

Front 82

Franz Schubert
1797-1828

Back 82

19th century Austrian composer (Impromptus, Moments Musicaux)

Front 83

Robert Schumann
1810-1856

Back 83

19th century German composer and pianist

Front 84

Aleksandr Nikoloyevich Scriabin
1872-1915

Back 84

late 19th -earlhy 20th century Russian composer and pianist (Divine Poem)

Front 85

Andes Segovia
1893-1987

Back 85

20th century Spanish classical guitarist

Front 86

Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
1906-1975

Back 86

20th century Russian composer (Leningrad symphony, opera The Golden Age, ballet Songs of the Forests)

Front 87

Jean Sibelius
1865-1957

Back 87

late 19th -early 20th century Finnish composer (Finlandia)

Front 88

Bedrich Smetana
1824-1884

Back 88

19th century Czech composer and pianist (opera The Bartered Bride)

Front 89

sonata

Back 89

instrumental musical composition usually of 3 or 4 movements (sonatina-short sonata)

Front 90

soprano

Back 90

highest femal voice

Front 91

John Philip Sousa
1854-1932

Back 91

late 19th -early 20th century American band conductor and composer of marches (Stars and Stripes Forever)

Front 92

Issac Stern
b. 1920

Back 92

20th century Russian-born American violinist

Front 93

Stradivari

Back 93

family of renowned violin makers

Front 94

Johann Strauss
1825-1899

Back 94

19th century Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer of waltzes (The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods)

Front 95

Igor Stravinsky
1882-1971

Back 95

20th century Russian born composer, pianist, and conductor (ballets The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring, opera The Rake's Purpose)

Front 96

symphony

Back 96

grand orchestral work in 4 movements

Front 97

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
1840-1893

Back 97

19th century Russian composer (Pathethique symphony, ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker)

Front 98

tenor

Back 98

highest normal male voice (apart from alto, which uses falsetto)

Front 99

Giuseppe Verdi
1813-1901

Back 99

19th century Italian composer (operas Rigoletto, il Trovatore, Don Carlos, Falstaff, Aida, Requiem)

Front 100

Antonio Vivaldi
1678-1741

Back 100

late 17th -early 18th centiury Italian vionlinst and composer (The Four Seasons)

Front 101

Richard Wagner
1813-1883

Back 101

19th century German composer and conductor known for cycles of opera and use of leitmotif (opears The Flying Dutchman, Tristan and Isolde, The Ring des Nibelungen)

Front 102

Carl Maria von Weber
1786-1826

Back 102

late 18th -early 19th century German composer, conductor, and pianist (operas Der Freischutz, Oberon)

Front 103

Kurt Weil
1900-1950

Back 103

20th century German-born American composer (opera The Threepenny Opera)