Music Exam 3

Front 1

Erlkonig

Back 1

Schubert
(starts with quick one note and bass rhythm)
Man racing his horse through the forest with his sick child
1. the narrator in the middle range and is in minor mode
2. the father lies in the low range and sings both in minor mode and major mode
3. the son lies in a high range, also in minor mode, representing the fright of the child
4. the erlking's vocal line undulates up and down to arpeggiated accompaniment

Front 2

Liebst du um Schonheit

Back 2

Schumann
(simple piano, woman soprano, sings name of song)
Art Song
Modified Strophic
"If you love for beauty" - do not love for beauty, youth, or money, but for love
wistful, playful
AA'A''A'''

Front 3

Symphonie fantastique

Back 3

Berlioz
(violin fluttering/rumbling, with some bass)
form and orchestration are revolutionary, tells in music a vivid story and, as such, is the first complete program symphony
five movements - 1 and 5, and 2 and 4 balance each other in length
single melody that reappears as a unifying force in each movement

Front 4

Mazurka (in Bb major)

Back 4

Chopin
(simple piano, babumbumbum)
Polish folk/ peasant dance
heavy beat is on beat 2 (3 beat tune)
Jewish underline/theme
A A B A C(minor) A C(minor) A
Rondo

Front 5

Ah, for's e lu

Back 5

Verdi
"Ah, perhaps he's the one"
from the opera "La Traviata"
slow strophic aria
Violetta reveals that Alfredo may be the one true love she has long desired, but then says its impossible

Front 6

Sepre libera

Back 6

Verdi
(woman soprano screaming, no accompaniment)
"Always free"
from the opera "la traviata"
show aria for soprano voice
Violetta declares forcefully her resolve to remain free of love's entanglements

Front 7

Ride of the Valkyries

Back 7

Wagner
(intense violin fluttering with horns)
from Die Walkure

Front 8

Liebestod

Back 8

Wagner
(starts with woman singing, hardly a violin in the background)
"love-death"
4 leitmotifs moving upward so as to convey a sense of continual longing and rising tension
an ecstatic vision of their love beyond the grave (their union will only be consummated through death, so she must die next to her lover’s body)

Front 9

Habanera

Back 9

Bizet
(folk dance sounding, slow, woman singing, buhbuhbuhbum)
dance-song, repeated bass and syncopated rhythms
chromatic
from Carmen

Front 10

Pictures at an Exhibition

Back 10

Musorgsky
(starts with the triumphant horns)
reoccurring interlude as if walking through an exhibition
meter - irregular - folk dance alternating 5&6 beat measures
built on pentatonic scale
uses only 5 notes instead of the usual 7
Bb, C, D, F, G

Front 11

Violin Concerto in D Major

Back 11

Brahms
(super fast, loud violins)
fast and playful but not too lively
uses double stops on the violin
rondo A B A C B A
A - flavor of gypsy tune like Hungarian dances
B - racing scales in violin & new theme that moves up & down a major scale
C - violin plays a more lyrical theme based on a arpeggio