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Comic intermezzo
A short comical opera in 2 sections. Usually performed between acts in a serious opera
Galant Style
Shorter sections, little to no ornamentaion, more cadences, melody and accompaniment
London Symphonies
12 symphonies written by Haydn. Solomon contracted Haydn to write them for London, it made Haydn very rich.
Ballad Opera
An English comic opera, has dialogue. Beggar’s Opera John Gay 1728
Who was Gluck and what type of music did he write? What ideal did he propose to follow?
Chritoph Gluck reformed a lot of operas. He wanted to simplify and beautify operas
Lied
a german artsong for voice and piano. Gretchen am Spinnrade Schubert
Introspection Period: When was it? What sorts of works was he writing at this point? List one or more appropriate works
1814-1827 he wrote his most famous piece Symphony no 9 in 1823
Melodrama
Has Dialogue and the orchestra narrates the action musically. Beethoven’s Fidelio Heiligenstadt Testament Beethoven’s Suicide note written to his brothers in 1802.
Idée fixe
A reoccurring theme in Symphonie Fantastique to represent the beloved. It appears throughout the piece in many forms and variations
Symphonie Fantastique
A piece written by Hector Berlioz in 1830. He wrote it to win the heart of a Shakespearian actress with whom he had fallen in love. It did not succeed.
Ode to Joy (Poem)
Friedrich Schiller and set to music in the 4th mvt of Beethovens 9th and final symphony. The poem is about a celebration of brotherhood and unity for man kind.
What Gregorian Chant is quoted in the final movement of the Symphonie Fantastique?
Dies Irae
Music Drama/gesamtkustwerk
A style of music by Richard Wagner. It is very similar to opera, just on a much larger scale. It flows together more than the “aria, stop, aria” flow of most operas also.
Cavatina
A slow aria. It can stand on its own. It shows off the bel canto voice.
Leitmotif
A musical phrases that represents something extramusical. It plays when a certain character or action appears on stage.
Concert Etude
A piece that is intended to teach better technique, but can also for concert performance. Concert Etude No. 3 Un Sospiro. Liszt
Symphonic/tone poem
A one movement piece of program music for orchestra. Debussy’s Prelude to afternoon of a faun.
The Ring of the Nibelungs
A set of 4 music dramas written by Richard Wagner. Flight of Valkyrie
Judaism in Music
An antisemtic book by Richard Wagner
New German School
The idea of program music being the new style. Composers consisted of Wagner, berlioz, and Liszt
New World Symphony
A piece by Dvorak. He was inspired to write it when he come to America in the late 19th century
The Mighty Handful
The Russian 5, The Mighty 5. A group of 5 Russian Composers. Cui, Borodin, Musorgsky, Rimsky Korsokov, Balakirev. Disassociated themselves with the German sound and created a Russian Sound.
Madame Butterfly
A Puccini opera set in Japan. First performance did not go over well, but the second was a huge success
Method of composing with twelve tones related only to each other
12 tone row. Schoenberg created this style and Berg and Webern followed. It was a type of atonal music
Expressionism
a term applied to composers of the second Viennese school of composers like Schoenberg and Berg. It was seeking to remove all of traditions music conventional elements.
Atonal music
A type of music not based on the scales or church modes. Does not have a key. Schoenberg wrote a lot of atonal works.
Sprechstimme/Sprechgesang
A type of “speak” singing. Noted by an x on the stem of a note. Performer slides around from not to note and is half voicing it. Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire 1912
Inverted twelve tone row
Take a 12 tone row and make all the intervals go in opposite directions
Pinkerton (madam butterfly)
Madam Butterfly’s lover in Madam Butterfly
Ragtime
Piece in duple meter, originally for piano, stressing, bass line with syncopations
Big Band/ swing jazz
30/40s style, short improvised solos from bandsman in the context of heavily arranged popular tunes
Russian Period (which composer)
Stravinsky 1900-1920
Populism
Music that attempts relate to the common man/ common woman “easier listening”
Gebrauchmusik
music intended, by virtue of its simplicity of technique and style, primarily for performance by the talented amateur rather than the virtuoso
United States Marine Band
John Phillip Sousa conducted them for 12 years and made them top notch band.
Afro-American Symphony
Written by Still in 1931 it is a symphony in a blues style.