Listening To Music Quiz 3

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Beethoven

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Musical composer that mixed classical with romanticism

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Aristocracy

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a form of government in which power is held by the nobility

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Pathetique Sonata

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Convey the romantic and even sorrowful mood of the sonota. Begins dark and dramatic. Then gets brisk and frantic. Then ends in a tempestuous rondo. Experimentation of C minor

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Symphony #5

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Widely Recognized

Opens ominously with a four note opening motif... Fate knocking at the door

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Deafness

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Reduced or complete lack of the ability to hear

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Clara Wieck Schumann

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One of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 19th century. Best years were her early years mental health deteriorated later on in life

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Composed Lied

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Chopin

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Only wrote works for solo piano or ensamble pieces

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Mazurka - character pieces

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A piece usually written for a piano. A shortly instrumental work that tries to capture the essence of a single mood, sentiment, or emotion.

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Prelude

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A short piece for the piano that consists of 24 keys

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Nocturne

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A night piece that is slow and dreamy. Typically romantic

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Etude

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A musical study of a composition that is usually short, considerably difficult, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill

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Polish

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Solo piano pieces in the Polish national style

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Rubato

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Rhythms that are free and relaxed, occasionally obscuring the meter;tempo can fluctuate greatly and sometimes slow to a crawl to allow for "the grand gesture"

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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Developed tone poems (a one movement work for orchestra that captures the emotions and events of a story through music. Ballet music short bursts of tuneful melody and rhythm to capture the emotional essence of the scene

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Musical nationalism

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Providing a rally point in a movement and cultural differences. Example star spangled banner

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Moscow Conservstory

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Educational music institution

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Nadezgda von Meck

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Wealthy music loving widow that provides money on the condition that her and the composer never meet

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Nutcracker

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Christmas Carol

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Romeo and Juliet

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Reimagined by Tchaikovsky to be a spiritual triumph instead of a tragedy

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Verdi

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Key figure in Italian opera

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Bel canto, diva

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Beautiful italian singing

Casta Diva - the heroine sings a prayer to a distant moon goddess

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Viva, Verdi!

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An acronym for Viva Victor Emmanuel who was king of Italy at the time

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Recitative accompagnato

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The instrumental accompanies under the single vocal line that is written to be more active

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Cabaletta

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Italian coulet

Operatic aria with a simple animated rhythm, and later a fast concluding section of a two part operatic aria

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Rigoletto

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Opera - Refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from the assassin hired by her father

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Franz Schubert

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Song cycle

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Schubertaide

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A event held to celebrate the Music of Franz Schubert

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Song Cycle

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Concept album

A tightly structured group of individual songs that tell a story or treat a single theme.

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Lied

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An art song in which the full orchestra replaces the piano as a medium of accompaniment

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Strophic

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The music of each strophe changes slightly from one to the next

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Erlking

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German Romantacisim that represents an elf king or king of the fairies

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Héctor Berlioz

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France Romanticism

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Program Music

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Instrumental music that seeks to recreate events and emotions portrayed in some extramusicsl source: a story, legend, play, novel, even a historical event.

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Program Symphony

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Distinctive instrumental sounds can tell a story in the most vivid and colorful detail.

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Symphonie fantastique

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Wrote for Harriot Smithson to show his unrequited love. She didn't attend. However she did come to realize his brilliance

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Harriet Smithson

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Famous Shakespearian actor that married Berlioz. However, they were miserable. She gained weight and he became increasingly active leading to infidelity.

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Johannes Brahms

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German Romantacisim

Assumed the role of Beethoven Succesor

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German Requiem

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High level quasi classical work

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Absolute Music

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Music without a narrative or storytelling intent

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Richard Wagner

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German opera writer

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Ring Cycle

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A set of four operas performed during the course of four successive evenings

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Gestamtkunstwerk

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Total work or all embrassing art form that uses all or many forms of music

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Singspiel

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Light German opera, typically with spoken dialogue, popular in the late 18th century

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Die Walkure

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The Valkyrie

Volsung twins, Sieglinde and Siegmund, seperated at childhood, meet and fall in love. Th union angers the gods who demand that Siegmund must die. Sieglinde and the couples unborn child are saved by the defiant actions of Wotans daughter, the title character, Valkyrie Bruunhilde, who as a result faces the gods' retribution.