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50 Cards in this Set
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Vere Dignum
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Anonymous; Gregorian plainchant (monophony)
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In Paradisum
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Anonymous; Gregorian antiphon (homophony)
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Columba Aspexit
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Hildegard of Bingen; plainchant with sequence and drone
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La Dousa Votz
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Bernardt de Ventadorn; troubadour from Southern France, in Provencal, secular
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Alleluia, Diffusa est Gratia
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Perotin; from Cathedral Notre Dame in Paris; melismatic organum
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Quant en Moi
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Guillaume de Machaut; Ars Nova; isorhythmic polyphony with hockets
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Pange Lingua Mass, Kyrie
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Josquin Desprez; point of imitation
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Pange Lingua Mass, Gloria
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Josquin Desprez
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Ave Maris Stella
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Guillaume Dufay; hymn, homophony, paraphrase
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Pope Marcellus Mass, Gloria
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(Giovanni Pierluigi de) Palestrina; Counter-Reformation
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As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending
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Thomas Weelkes; English madrigal (inspired by Spanish); for Queen Elizabeth I in The Triumphs of Oriana; declamation and word-painting
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Daphne
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Anonymous; instrumental, early violin ensemble; galliard (formal dance)
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Kemp's Jig
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Anonymous; instrumental; named for Will Kemp, associate of William Shakespeare
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O Magnum Mysterium
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Giovanni Gabrieli; St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice; Early Baroque; Hallelujah = last word
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The Coronation of Poppea
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Claudio Monteverdi; opera from Venice; 2 female singers playing Nero/Poppea
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Dido and Aeneas
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Henry Purcell; opera from English Restoration Period (restoration of Charles II/monarchy); no other great English composers; written for an all-girls' school; Dido lamenting before she kills herself
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Suite -- Canzona, Balleto, Corrente, Passacaglia
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Girolame Frescobaldi; Canzona=fugue-like; Balleto=simple; Corrente=frequent stops; Passacaglia=ground bass/chaconne
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Violin Concerto in G, 1st movement
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Antonio Vivaldi; ritornello form
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Violin Concerto in G, 2nd movement
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Antonio Vivaldi; passacaglia
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Brandenburg Concerto #5, 1st movement
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Johann Sebastian Bach; 6 concertros for Margrave of Brandenburg, who never received them; 1st movement=ritornello
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The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 4
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J.S. Bach; form=fugue (subject, counter-subject, exposition, episode, devices=stretto, augmentation, inversion, diminution, retrograde); work of his old age, living in Leipzig
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Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, Air/Gavotte
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J.S. Bach; trio; dance form = |:A:|:B:| |:C:|:D:| AB; four required dances = Allemande Courante Sarabande Gigue; optional = minuet, air, bouree (single upbeat), gavotte (double upbeat), passapied, forlane
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Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550, 1st movement
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sonata Form (exposition, development, recapitulation); fragmentation, retransition, coda
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Symphony No. 95 in C minor, I
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Joseph Haydn; Sonata Form
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Symphony No. 95 in C minor, II
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Haydn; Theme & Variations |:a:|:b:|
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Symphony No. 95 in C minor, III
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Haydn; Minuet & Trio; ternary form A|:a:|:ba:| B|:c:|:dc:|; triple-meter, ballroom dance to solo cello country romp
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Symphony No. 95 in C minor, IV
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Haydn; Rondo (with fugal interludes); stormy section and musical jokes
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Piano Sonata in B-flat, 3rd movement, K570
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Mozart; Rondo form in sonata genre (1 or 2 instruments -- piano=1 [solo piano], violin=2 [violin+piano])
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Don Giovanni, Act I, scene iii
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Mozart; Opera Buffa; librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (ended up running a grocery store in New Jersey)
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Piano Concerto in A, K488, 1st movement
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Mozart; Double Exposition; concerto=contest between soloist/orchestra
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, I
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Ludwig van Beethoven; Allegro con Brio; famous four-note motive
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, II
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Beethoven; Double Theme & Variations (primary & secondary themes)
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, III
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Beethoven; Scherzo (in place of minuet), but same approximate form |:a:|:ba':| (rounded binary); transition to 4th movement
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, IV
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Beethoven; Sonata (primary, bridge, secondary, closing themes, retransition, coda)
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Der Erlkonig
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Franz Schubert; German lied (voice+piano); based on piece of poetry; elf-king sings to boy and kills him
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Carnavale, Eusebius and Florestan
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Robert Schumann; stream-of-consciousness; extremely bipolar, institutionalized; Eusebius=poet/dreamer, vague form; Florestan=impulsive, sudden ending
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Nocturne in F-sharp, Op. 15, No. 2
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Frederic Chopin; character piece (lieder w/o words); simple ABA form; disliked descriptive titles for pieces
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Fantastic Symphony, 5th movement
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Hector Berlioz; idee fixe and dies irae; revenge for Harriet Smithson; witches' sabbath
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Violin Concerto in D, 3rd movement
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Johannes Brahms; Rondo; return of Viennese Classicism (conservative); written for Joachim, virtuoso violinist
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Symphony No. 1, 3rd movement (Funeral March)
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Gustav Mahler; uses "Frere Jacques"; free, episodic form
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Romeo and Juliet
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Tchaikovsky; Symphonic tone poem; Sonata Form; Hymn, Vendetta, Sighing, Love themes; patron was Nadezhda von Meck
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The Barber of Seville, Act I Finale
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Giachino Rossini; Bel Canto Opera Buffa; retired early
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Clouds (Nuages)
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Claude Debussy; 1st modernist piece; synesthesia; English horn motive, parallel chords, pentatonic scale
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The Rite of Spring (Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth)
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Igor Stravinsky; ballet with George Balanchine; caused a riot on opening night; about primitive Russian human sacrifice; Dance of the Adolescents=opening
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Piano Concerto in G, 1st movement
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Maurice Ravel; from South France (near Spain) and despised Germans; visited America -- his tribute to jazz; died of rare brain disease
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Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, 2nd movement (allegro)
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Bela Bartok; Sonata Form (primary, bridge, secondary themes); Hungarian composer, piano teacher, pianist, ethnomusicologist, etc.; died of leukemia
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Prelude No. 1
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George Gershwin; ABA' form with blues scale; born in New York; songwriter and Broadway composer; Ida Gershwin (brother) wrote lyrics; Swanee=1st big hit, Rhapsody in Blue; went to Hollywood; died of brain tumor at age 38
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Appalachian Spring
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Aaron Copland; ballet written in 1945 to celebrate end of WWII; still, static passage; bride-to-be, square dance; variations on "Simple Gifts" (Shaker melody); quiet, landscape finale; had Modernist and Populist kinds of compositions
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"If You Ever Been Down" Blues
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Sippie Wallace; 12-bar blues (a a' b) with improvised sections; young Louis Armstrong on trumpet
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Conga Brava
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Duke Ellington; Swing/Big Band; less improvisation, more for dancing; dance of Afro-Cuban origin because Americans were afraid Nazis would take over South America
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