Music History Iii Final

Front 1

According to your text, the most important and "articulate proponent" of "absolute music" in the second half of the 19th century was what famous music critic? [last name]

Back 1

Hanslick

Front 2

Name the composer who wrote an essay Defending Berlioz's 'Harold Symphony's' use of program music and the "instrumental poem"? [last name]

Back 2

Liszt

Front 3

What was Franz Liszt's country of origin?

Back 3

Hungary

Front 4

What were Liszt's birth and death years?

Back 4

1811-1886

Front 5

Who was Liszt's piano teacher (who was also a student of Beethoven)? [last name]

Back 5

Czerny

Front 6

With which well known composer of the time did Liszt study theory and counterpoint? [last name]

Back 6

Salieri

Front 7

In which court was Liszt music director from approximately 1848 to 1861?

Back 7

Weimar

Front 8

Liszt wrote 13 symphonic works for orchestra (such as Orpheus and Hamlet). Not called "symphonies," name this 19th century form that he helped to develop.

Back 8

Symphonic Poem

Front 9

Who was the virtuoso violinist Liszt admired during his early years and sought to match in virtuosity at the piano [last name]

Back 9

Paganini

Front 10

Which early 19th century composer's lieder did Liszt write piano transcriptions/arrangements of? [last name]

Back 10

Schubert

Front 11

According to class lectures, in the poem, "Mazeppa," on which of Liszt's music composition 'Mazeppa,' is based, at the end of the relentless horse ride, what happens to the rider?

Back 11

He wakes up in a bed, his wounds being tended to. Then he is crowned king.

Front 12

What was Liszt's method of unifying a composition?

Back 12

Thematic Transformation

Front 13

Clara Schumann was a famous performer on what instrument?

Back 13

Piano

Front 14

What are Johannes Brahms' birth and death years?

Back 14

1833 -1897

Front 15

At what famous composer's home did the young Brahmns live? [last name]

Back 15

Schumann

Front 16

How many symphonies did Brahms write?

Back 16

4

Front 17

Brahms' Symphony No. 1 is sometimes referred to __________'s 10th symphony?

Back 17

Beethoven

Front 18

20th century composer, Arnold Schoenberg wrote and article about Brahms in which he labeled "Brahms the _______"

Back 18

Progressive

Front 19

Brahms' works were labeled "old-fashioned" by the 'New German School' whose principal figures included Liszt and what great opera composer?

Back 19

Wagner

Front 20

According to your text, the finale of Brahms' Fourth Symphony is in what Baroque form?

Back 20

Passacaglia

Front 21

According to your text, was the "leading Austro-German composer of symphonies after Brahms and Bruckner"?

Back 21

Gustav Mahler

Front 22

What were Tchaikovsky's birth and death years?

Back 22

1840 - 1893

Front 23

What was Tchaikovsky's country of origin?

Back 23

Russia

Front 24

Name the titles of Tachaikovsky's three ballets

Back 24

Swan Lake

Sleeping Beauty

The Nutcracker

Front 25

Name the title of one of Tchaikovsky's two operas

Back 25

Eugene Onegin

The Queen of Spades

Front 26

How many symphonies did Tchaikovsky write?

Back 26

6

Front 27

Tchaikovsky's last symphony is subtitled?

Back 27

Pathetique

Front 28

What happened to Tchaikovsky approximately 8 days after the premiere of his last symphony?

Back 28

He was found dead

Front 29

Dvorak was called "the Bohemian_______"

Back 29

Brahms

Front 30

How many symphonies did Dvorak write?

Back 30

9

Front 31

Which movement in Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 opens with a melodic/rhythmic figure and use of timpani that are very similar to the opening of the 2nd movement in Beethoven's 9th symphony?

Back 31

Third

Front 32

What is the titled of the opera that Dvorak composed in 1900 about a water nymph

Back 32

Rusalka

Front 33

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 is subtitled?

Back 33

From The New World

Front 34

What was Elgar's country of origin?

Back 34

England

Front 35

In class, we listened to Elgar's "Nimrod" which is from his Variations on an Original Theme which is also known as the The ________ Variations

Back 35

Enigma

Front 36

According to your text, in the first half of the 19th centruy, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, and _______ were the most often performed composers at OPERA HOUSES

Back 36

Weber

Front 37

In the second half of the 19th century, according to your text, Verdi dominated Italian opera and _____ dominated German opera [last names]

Back 37

Wagner

Front 38

Name the composer who wrote Les Huguenots and was an important composer of French Grand Opera. [last name]

Back 38

Meyerbeer

Front 39

What were Rossini's birth and death years?

Back 39

1792 - 1868

Front 40

Name an opera by Rossini discussed in class that premiered in 1829 and incorporated the French Grand Opera elements of declamation and spectacle.

Back 40

Guillaume Tell

Front 41

Who was the French playwright who wrote the original trilogy of plays based on the Figaro character [last name]

Back 41

Beaumarchais

Front 42

Mozart's Marriage of Figaro was based on the second play of the Figaro trilogy of played, upon which play in the Figaro trilogy of plays was Rossini's The Barber of Seville based?

Back 42

First play

Front 43

Which Italian composer wrote the opera Norma premiered in 1831?

Back 43

Bellini

Front 44

The character, Figaro, appears in Act I in Rossini's The Barber of Seville singing what aria (that we studied in class)?

Back 44

Largo Al Factotum

Front 45

According to your text, name the ballet dancer who "introduced" "Romantic ballet" and "helped to establish a lasting ballet tradition in Europe. [last name]

Back 45

Taglioni

Front 46

Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is an example of what kind of French opera?

Back 46

Opera Bouffe

Front 47

The important French opera, Carmen, premiered in Paris in 1875 and was written by which composer? [last name]

Back 47

Bizet

Front 48

The story in the French opera, Carmen, was set in what country?

Back 48

Spain

Front 49

Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale were written by which Italian opera composer [last name]

Back 49

Donizetti

Front 50

What were Puccini's birth and death years?

Back 50

1858 - 1924

Front 51

Define the Italian "verismo' approach to opera as represented by operas such as La Boheme.

Back 51

Incorperating the naturarlism found in 19th century writing

Front 52

Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly was set in what country?

Back 52

Japan

Front 53

Rudolfo and Mimi were leading characters in what Puccini opera we studied in class?

Back 53

La Boheme

Front 54

In one word, describe the physical status of the character, Rigoletto, in the opera, Rigoletto

Back 54

Hunchback

Front 55

According to your text, which tragic opera by Verdi was one of his "crowning achievements," permiered in 1887, and based on a Shakespeare character?

Back 55

Othello

Front 56

What famous Italian publishing house published Verdi's works?

Back 56

Casa Ricordi

Front 57

Verdi "supported and became identified with" what movement "that aimed to liberate Italy from foreign rule"?

Back 57

il Risorgimento

Front 58

Which opera by Verdi is set in Egypt?

Back 58

Aida

Front 59

What happens to the main character's wife on stage in the play-within-the-opera at the end of Pagliacci?

Back 59

She is stabbed to death

Front 60

The titled character in Pagliacci, an opera written by Leoncavallo and premiered in 1892 is dressed as a:

Back 60

Clown

Front 61

Who does Tosca stab to death in Puccini's opera, Tosca?

Back 61

Scarpia

Front 62

What were Wagner's birth and death years?

Back 62

1813 -1883

Front 63

Translate Wagner's use of the German word "Gesmtkunstwerk"

Back 63

Unified work of art

Front 64

In 1854, Wagner read and was deeply moved by which book by Schopenhauer (originally written in 1819) that had a great impact on Wagner's late operas?

Back 64

The World as Will and Representation

Front 65

Some Wagner scholars demarcate the early (and/or middle) period in Wagner's operas as those originally written prior to his 1854 reading of Schopenhauer's philosophy. Name two of those early operas.

Back 65

Rienzi

Tannhauser

Front 66

The "Pilgrim's Chorus" is from which Wagner opera?

Back 66

Tannhauser

Front 67

Name one of the four operas that constitute Wanger's "Ring" cycle?

Back 67

The Valkyrie

Front 68

In Tristan and Isolde, Wagner moves radically away from diatonic melodic development to _______ melodic developemnt

Back 68

Chromatic

Front 69

The opening four-note leitmotiv in the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde refers to ________.

Back 69

Longing

Front 70

According to your text, La Traviata is considered one of the "mature works" by what great Italian composer [last name]

Back 70

Verdi

Front 71

According to your text, what great German lieder composer is "best known for adapting Wagner's methods" and in particular, his "fusion [and equality] of poetry and music and of voice and piano." [last name]

Back 71

Wolf

Front 72

How many symphonies did Anton Bruckner write?

Back 72

11 counting #0 and #00

Front 73

Name Johann Strauss Jr's most famous operetta (from which we listened to "Adele's Laughing Song")

Back 73

Die Fledermaus (The Bat)

Front 74

What large and popular orchestral work did Camille Saint-Saens write which includes "the Sawn"?

Back 74

Carnival of the Animals

Front 75

"Don Juan" and Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss represent what compositional form created by Franz Liszt?

Back 75

Symphonic Poem

Front 76

The opera, Salome, by Richard Strauss was based on a play by which playwright? [full name]

Back 76

Oscar Wilde

Front 77

What political affiliation did Richard Strauss have that caused Toscanini to comment, "I take my hat off to his music, I leave my hat on to the man"?

Back 77

Nazi Party

Front 78

According to your text, Richard Strauss' "chief models were the programmatic works" of which two composers?

Back 78

Liszt and Berlioz

Front 79

According to your text, which opera by Richard Strauss, written 1906-1908 (premiered in 1909) and from which we heard an aira, took a leap in terms of dissonance, chromaticism, and tonal ambiguity in comparison to his earlier opera, Salome?

Back 79

Elektra

Front 80

Mahler's Eighth Symphony is nicknamed "Symphony of ________"

Back 80

Symphony of a Thousand

Front 81

The soloist in the 4th Movement in Mahler's Fourth Symphony is a ________?

Back 81

Male Soprano

Front 82

According to your text, which earlier composer did Mahler "revere" most, and had "ideas about art as a kind of religion"

Back 82

Wagner

Front 83

According to your text, what song cycle for tenor and alto soloists with orchestra "rivals the Ninth Symphony as the high point in Mahler's late works" [English or German title]

Back 83

Das Lied von der Erde

Front 84

Gustav Mahler's wife became a major source for the performance practices of his works and for writers or his biography, as was famous during her life. What was her first name ______.

Back 84

Alma

Front 85

What is the name of the Opera written by Gustave Charpentier that includes the aria "Depuis le jour" we discussed in class?

Back 85

Louise

Front 86

What was Edvard Grieg's country of origin?

Back 86

Norway

Front 87

What was the name of the play by Henrick Ibsen for which Grieg wrote incidental music?

Back 87

Peer Gynt

Front 88

List the names of the group of Russian nationalist composers known as the "Might Handful" or "Mighty Five"

Back 88

Balakirev

Cui

Mussorgsky

Rimsky-Korsakov & Borodin

Front 89

According to your text, which Bohemian composer's eight operas "from the core of the Czech operatic repertory"?

Back 89

Smetana

Front 90

According to your text, Mussorgsky's opera, Boris Godunov, imitates Russian ________.

Back 90

Folk Songs

Front 91

According to your text, Mussorgsky received most of his musical training from what Russian composer?

Back 91

Balakirev

Front 92

Name one of the three "successful" operetta's written by Gilbert and Sullivan identified in your text.

Back 92

The Pirates of Penzance

Front 93

Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade is based on tales from the ________.

Back 93

One Thousand and One Nights

Front 94

What is the subtitled of American composer Amy march Beach's Symphony (written between 1894 and 1896)? [in your text]

Back 94

Gaelic

Front 95

According to your text, "The African American form of music with the greatest impact in the nineteenth century was the __________."

Back 95

Spirtual

Front 96

According to your text, one of the many traits in African-American music in the nineteenth century was a device marked by "alternating short phrases between a leader and the group" called ________.

Back 96

Call and response