Msc 3044 Quiz 4

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Singspiel

Back 1

a German light comic opera with spoken dialogue rather than recitatives

Front 2

Lorenzo da Ponte

Back 2

Poet and librettist who moved to the US where he sold guns, held the first full production of a Mozart opera in the US and founded the Italian department at Columbia University

Front 3

Trouser Role

Back 3

A woman dressed as a man

Front 4

Ensemble finale

Back 4

the characters all sing together at the end of an act

Front 5

Requiem Mass

Back 5

funeral music for the Roman Church

Front 6

Dies irae

Back 6

Medieval chant for a burial service that talks about the day of judgement

Front 7

Christian Neefe

Back 7

Court musician, teacher to Beethoven

Front 8

Ferdinand Waldstein

Back 8

A patron of Beethoven who spoke highly of him

Front 9

WoO numbers

Back 9

Works w/o opus number. Catalog compiled in 1955 by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm

Front 10

French Revolution

Back 10

Armies from German lands (Prussia and Austria) fought in France to protect the King and Austrian provinces in what is now Belgium (they failed)

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Improvisation

Back 11

performing music without reference to an existing musical composition

Front 12

Carl Czerny

Back 12

Beethovan's piano student

Front 13

Fantasia

Back 13

Improvisory piece without a form

Front 14

Sonata-rondo form

Back 14

Found in finales of symphonies and concertos in the 18th and 19th centuries. Combination of rondo and sonata form.

Front 15

Episode of a rondo

Back 15

contrasting theme (Ex: B,C,D)

Front 16

Heiligenstadt Testament

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Letter from Beethoven to his 2 younger brothers. Included his will and an emotional explanation of his moody and withdrawn personality, struggle with going deaf and his determination.

Front 17

Symphonie Concertante

Back 17

a concerto with multiple soloists

Front 18

Academies

Back 18

Gala concerts held for a composer's benefit

Front 19

Program music

Back 19

Instrumental music that expresses nonmusical ideas (picture / story)

Front 20

Melodrama

Back 20

a musical genre in which spoken text is accompanied by / alternates with instrumental music

Front 21

Cabaletta

Back 21

The fast, virtuosic concluding part of an aria / duet (19 century Italian opera)

Front 22

Immortal Beloved

Back 22

A woman that Beethoven loves but can never be with