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Edvard Grieg became the voice of what country? |
Norway |
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American Composer- Student of Dvorak- wrote collection of spirituals |
Henry Burleigh |
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Prominent Woman Composer of New England School |
Amy Beach |
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American Composer - New Orleans- Blues and Jazz |
Stephen Foster |
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English Composer much revered to this day |
Sir Edward Elgar |
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Father of True Russian Music |
Mikhail Glinka |
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Russian Composer - Poor Orchestrator |
Modest Mussorgsky |
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Composer of Symphonic Poem: Scheherazade |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Russian Composer who admired Mendelssohn |
Alexander Borodin |
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Professor at St. Petersburg Conservatory |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
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Composer of Academic Festival Overture |
Johannes Brahms |
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Franz Shubert had a great gift for writing... |
Beautiful Melodies |
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Composer who wrote a Treatise on Instrumentation |
Hector Berlioz |
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5 movement Romantic Symphony was written by... |
Robert Schumann OR Hector Berlioz |
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Idée Fixe was termed by... |
Hector Berlioz |
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Composer of Minute Waltz |
Fredrick Chopin |
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Music of Johannes Brahms is sometimes referred to as... |
Absolute. |
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The Rhenish Symphony was written by |
Robert Schumann |
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Mendelssohn wrote the Reformation Symphony on the ______ anniversary of the Lutheran Church |
300th |
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A song cycle was held together by a SINGLE theme (t/f) |
True |
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Verses in vocal music |
Strophic |
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Which composer restored the neglected music of J.S. Bach? |
Felix Mendelssohn |
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German word for song (sl. And pl.) |
Leid/Leider |
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Composer who brought German Opera to its Culmination |
Richard Wagner |
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History of Italian Opera is basically summed up by |
Guiseppe Verdi |
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Gesamtkunstwerk (Music Drama) was termed by |
Richard Wagner |
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Which of Verdi's operas is the Culmination of Opera Seria? |
Otello |
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This opera Composer Used new harmonic elements like Whole Tone and Pentatonic Scales |
Giacomo Puccini |
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Wagner Wrote a 4 music drama Cycle titled: |
Der Ring die Niebelungen |
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The term Leitmotive was coined by |
Richard Wagner |
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Sprechgesang - a new type of rececetive- was used by William Wagner. ToF |
True |
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Most Outstanding Composer of Opera Comique |
Jacques Offenbach |
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Opera Composer noted or exoticism |
Leo Delibes |
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Father of 19th Century German Opera |
Carl Maria von Weber |
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Italy's answer to Richard Wagner was known as... |
Verismo Opera |
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Robert Le Diable was not a Verismo Opera ToF |
True, it was NOT |
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Composer that used the Saxophone |
Jules Massenet |
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Composer known as a principal exponent of Lyric Opera |
Charles Gounod |
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Composer of Samson and Delilah |
Camille Saint-Saëns |
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Amilcare Ponchielli- teacher of Puchinni and wrote la Giocanda - ToF |
T |
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Cavalleria and I Pagliacci are performed together as a double bill- ToF |
True |
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Composer who liked Horror Elements |
Heinrich Marschner |
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Composer known as a fine librettist for Verdi |
Arrigo Boito |
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Puccini Opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera |
La Fancuilla del West |