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105 Cards in this Set
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Risorgimento
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nationalistic unification movement in italy
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Realism
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depicting as they really are
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Exoticism
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Evocation of a distant land or foreign culture
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Nabucco
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Verdi's first successful opera
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La Scala Theater
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Opera house in Milan... Verdi settled here
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VERDI! (acronym)
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Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re d'Italia
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Cabaletta
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last part of aria/ensemble in rossini opera structure... lively and expressed active feelings
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Jacues Offenbach
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FIND OUT!!!
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Johann Strauss
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FIND OUT!!!
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"Music Drama"
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Wagner where the music and the drama became organically connected to express absolute oneness
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3 Treatsies by Wagner:
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The Artwork of the Future
Opera and Drama Jewishness in Music |
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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"Total Artwork"
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"Total Artwork" (Wagner)
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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motives of rememberance
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like leitmotiv but not whole themes
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Die Valkurie (composer/translation/larger series it's from)
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Wanger/"The Valkyrie"/The Ring of the Nibelungs
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Wagner-only opera house
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Bayreuth
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Bayreuth
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Wagner-only opera house
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Leitmotivs
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-short, melodically/rhythmically distinct fragments
-meaning established at first hearning -recur whenever its subject is mentioned -often transformed/varied |
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Tristan chord!?
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F-B-D#-G#.... now go play it on the piano
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Lyric opera
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-replacement of Grand opera
-came from opera comique -main appeal = melody to a romantic drama or fantasy |
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habanera
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spanish melody
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"Mighty Handful" ( at least 3 members)
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-Balakirev
-Borodin** -Cui -Musorgsky** -Romsky-Korsakov** |
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Alexander Pushkin
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Russian writer... one of the greatest of all time?
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Interlocking tritones (who and what uses?)
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scriabin in Vers la Flamme
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Historicism
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-repertory by deceased composers now of equal imprtance to living
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"musicology"
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scientific discipline of studying music history
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Gesamtausgabe
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complete edition
ala catalog of a composer's works |
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Absolute music
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music for it's own sake with no text/scenario
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Program music
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music with a written scenario that it's intended to depict
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Who developed the Symphonic poem?
What is it? |
Liszt
One-movement programmatic, symphonic works (with contrasting sections) |
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Thematic transformation
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-developed by liszt
-taking one theme and making a whole work out of it by changing it from section to section (continuous) |
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Who, other than Wagner, used Wagner tubas?
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Bruckner
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Who wrote philosophical symphonic poems?
What are they? |
R. Strauss
represents an idea (i.e. logic) |
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Who wrote descriptive symphonic poems?
What are they? |
R. Strauss
depicts a story (i.e. don quixote) |
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name someone who used fluttertongueing in their music
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R. Strauss
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Name someone who used col legno in their music
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R. Strauss
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What is an orchestral song cycle?
who wrote them? |
like normal one but with orchestra instead of piano accompaniment
Belioz wrote one, Mahler five |
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Progressive Tonality (and who?)
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begins in one key and ends in another (mahler)
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Impressionism (and who?)
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evokes moods and visual imagery through colorful HARMONY and TIMBRE
(Debussy) |
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who spearheaded symbolism in music?
what is it? |
Debussy
A literary movement that drew attention to individual images that carry the work's structure an meaning |
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Stephane Mallarme is known for what
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being associated with the symbolist movement in Paris (non-musical but influenced Debussy)
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Octatonic- two varieties starting on C
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C-Db-Eb-E-F#-G-A-Bb-C
C-D-Eb-F-F#-Ab-A-B-C |
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Whole-tone scale starting on C
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C-D-E-F#-Ab-Bb-C
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Pentatonic scale starting on C
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C-D-E-G-A-C
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Who used a wordless chorus? in what? name two examples!
what is wordless chorus anyways? |
Debussy- Movement three of Nocturnes "Sirenes"
Ravel- Daphnis er Chloe Choir for tone not text- sing on syllables |
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Debussy was greatly influenced by what Russian composer as discussed in the coursepack?
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Musorgsky!
go read it on p.51 |
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Faure taught what famous 20th century piano/conducting/composition teacher?
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Nadia Boulanger
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Two French composers that used juxtaposition as a key part of their music
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Gabriel Faure
Erik Satie |
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When not composing Satie did what?
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Cabaret pianist
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What is Musique d' ameublement and who established the concept?
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Furniture music (background music for stuff)
Satie |
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Who studied at the Schola Cantorum?
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Satie
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Who designed the costumes for Parade?
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Picasso
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Who produced Parade?
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Diaghilev
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Who wrote the Scenario for parade?
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Jean Cocteau
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What is a Bouteillephonne?
Name other non-normal instruments Satie used |
A bottle filled with water used as an instrument
lottery wheel, fog horn, pistol shots... check out the score |
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What are intuonarumori? who made them?
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Noisemakers... Luigi Russolo
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Who was in "Les Six"?
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Arthur Honegger (swiss)
Darius Milhaud Francis Poulenc Germain Tailleferre (woman) Georges Auric (most intellectual) Louis Durey (left the group quickly) |
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Who was the first ethnomusicologist?
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Bartok
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What is an ethnomusicologist?
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Someone who studies non-notated music of a particular culture... scientifically
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Name 2 post-romantic composers that influenced bartok
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Liszt, Strauss, Mahler, Wolf, and Brahms
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Who wrote an article called "Brahms the progressive"?
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Schoenberg
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Who developed the twelve-tone system?
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Schoenberg
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Who was an early Schoenberg supporter?
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Mahler
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What type of visual art was Schoenberg influenced by?
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Expressionist painters
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What did Schoenberg do other than compose/conduct?
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Paint!
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Who used the musical systems of axis tonality and Golden section?
What are they? |
Bartok
Axis tonality- tritone axis that the piece is centered aroun? Golden section- 2/3 of the way through a phrase is the "crux" |
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Ballets Russes creator?
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Diaghilev
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What was "The World of Art"?
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an avant-garde journal publication
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Name one artist associated with Diaghilev
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Picasso*, Matisse, Roerich, Larionov, Goncharova, Bakst
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Name two dancers associated with Diaghilev
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Nijinsky*, Nijinska, Pavlova, Nemchinova, Balanchine*
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Name 2 choreographers associated with Diaghilev
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Benois, Fokine*, Nijinsky*, Nijinska, Massine
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Two world events that Ballets Russes survived
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WWI and the Russian Revolution
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Petrushka Chord
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play it on the piano
combined C and F# triads A# C C# E F# G A# C |
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Rite of Spring Chord
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V6/5 of A-flat chord over F-flat major root position chord
play on the piano |
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Pas de deux
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a duet in a ballet
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Who is especially known for not really using Pas De Deux?
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Stravinsky
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Name two operas from Wagner's Ring Cycle in order
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The Rhine Gold
The Valkyries Sigfried The Twilight of the Gods |
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Opera house devoted to Wagner
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Bayreuth
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How does Wagner unify his later music dramas? Cite the term.
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Leitmotif
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Name a new instrument used for Wagner's operas
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Wagner Tuba
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In which city did Wagner write music criticism?
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Paris
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Wagner's operas use words with similar sounds. This is called:
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Alliteration
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Famous composer that conducted premieres of several Wagner Operas
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Liszt
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Two characters from Tristan other than Tristan
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Isolde
Isolde's servant |
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Which Wagner opera deals with a singer?
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Meistersinger
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Opera house for late Verdi
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La Scala
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One Verdi opera written in early 1850s
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Traviata
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One Verdi opera based on Shakespeare
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Otello
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What is unusual about Verdi's Falstaff? (cite one such feature)
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Comic? (maybe)
HE WAS 80 YEARS OLD! |
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Name the reunification movement that used Verdi's name as an acronym
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Rissorgimente
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which term can be defined as "evocation of a distant land or foreign culture"?
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exoticism
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Verdi's operas built on the conventions of: (name three and identify most important)
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Rossini, Bollini
Donazetti= most important |
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Instead of treating historical figures or faraway places, ________ presents everyday people, especially lower classes, in familiar situations, often depicting events that are brutal or sordid
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realism
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What did France call its most serious and large-scale opera in the 19th century?
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Grand Opera
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The most famous lyric opera is Faust by Charles _______ (last name)
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Gounod
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Bizet's Carmen draws on the music of which country?
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Spain
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The first Russian composer recognized both by Russians and internationally is
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Glinka
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Who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory?
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Rubinstein
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Which composer sought to reconcile the nationalist and internationalist tendencies in Russian music?
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Tchaikovsky
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Name the group of Russians who flourished together in the later 19th century.
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The mighty handful
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The opera Boris Goudunov is based on a libretto by
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Pushkin
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Name the scene from Boris Goudunov that is on the assignments.
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Coronation scene
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Who wrote: "We formed a close-knot circle of youn composers. And since there was nowhere to study (the conservatory didn't exist) our self-education began. It consisted of playing through everything that had been written by all the greatest composers, and all the works were subjected to criticism and analysis in all their technical and creative aspects"
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Cui (from the mighty handful)
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Name one type of scale other than major, minor, or chromatic used by Russian composers
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Whole-tone
or diminished |
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More has been written about ___________ than any other musician!!!
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Wagner
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