Msc 3044 Quiz 7

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Bayreuth

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A Bavarian village where Wagner purchased property, with King Ludwig's financial help, and began to raise money to build a theater specifically for the performance of his own works.

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Gesamtkunstwerk

Back 2

A total work of art; with equal emphasis on text, staging and music

Front 3

Music of the future

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Wagner's belief that Gesamtkunstwerk (intergrated and dramatic artwork) would become an ideal

Front 4

Music drama

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Wagner's name for his operas

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Valhalla

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Wotan's Castle, built by the Giants, from The Rhine Gold by Wagner

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Wagner Tuba

Back 6

mid-range brass instrument

Front 7

Leitmotive

Back 7

Symbolic motives given to the orchestra that allow it to comment upon and narrate elements of the drama directly.

Front 8

Simple recitative

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recitative that is accompanied by a keyboard instrument, cello or bass

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impresario

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Manager / producer

Front 10

Introduction (to an operatic number)

Back 10

Operatic piece after overture that is long, multi-sectional, made from a succession of contrasting passages that mix choral, ensemble and solo singing.

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cavatina (in Rossini's opera)

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In 18th and 19th century Italian opera, an entrance aria

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Cabaletta

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fast, virtuosic ending part of an aria or duet (19th century Italian opera)

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Stretta

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the fast, climactic section of a piece in 19th century opera.

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Cabaletta

Back 14

fast, virtuosic ending part of an aria or duet (19th century Italian opera)

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Stretta

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the fast, climactic section of a piece in 19th century opera.

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Rossini crescendo

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A series of crescendos and repetitions of ever-shorter phrases, steady thickening of orchestration and ever-quicker harmonic motion

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Teatro alla Scala

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A theater in Milan where Verdi's first opera, Oberto, was performed

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Risorgimento

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Resurgence; movement toward Italian political and social unification that began after Napoleon's defeat and culminated when Italy was united under King Victor Emmanuel II.

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Brindisi

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a drinking song, 19th century Italian opera

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Brindisi

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a drinking song, often found in 19th century Italian opera

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Scene

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A passage calling a particular selection of characters to the stage

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Preghiera

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Prayer scene, 19th century italian opera

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Nationalism

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The love for and allegiance to one's region of birth and its people, culture and language

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Bedrich Smetena

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Czech composer that used his music to celebrate his nation and its history in his 6 orchestral works Má vlast (My Fatherland)

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Bedrich Smetena

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Czech composer that used their music to celebrate their nation and its history in his 6 orchestral works Má vlast (My Fatherland)

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Symphonic poem

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Tone poem, 1 movement, orchestral work, program music

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Symphonic poem

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One movement, orchestral work, program music

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Rhapsody

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Character piece for piano. No form or mood. 19th century

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Cimbalom

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A hungarian dulcimer

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Gypsy scale

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Minor scale with raised 4th and 7th

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Trio (of a march)

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A contrasting section or episode

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New German School

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A group of musicians gathering around Franz Liszt in Weimar and supporting the artistic outlook of Liszt and Richard Wagner

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Transformation of themes

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Technique of thematic unity where the themes are drawn from one theme at the beginning and changes it's character each time.

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Musikverein

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Built the "Golden Hall", a concert site, home to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

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Waltz

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19th century dance of choice in triple meter, emphasis on downbeat.

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Johann Strauss Jr.

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Leading composer of waltzes, "Waltz King", whose dance orchestras played all over Vienna

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Eduard Hanslick

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The most influential music critic in Vienna during the second half of the 19th century.

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Absolute music

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instrumental pieces that had no programmatic content / music for music's sake

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Three-key exposition

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A tonal plan in a sonata-form exposition having 3 keys; seen in the 1st mvmt of Schubert's 9th Symphony

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Cecilianism

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A movement in the Catholic Church in German lands: greater uniformity in church music based on music of Palestrina.

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Bohemia

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It is a city. In the 19th Century, the city and it's surrounding lands were a province within the Austrian Empire. The rivalry between the German and Czech populations were intense.