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34 Cards in this Set
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Mikhail Glinka |
The first significant and original Russian-born composer |
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Mariinsky Theater |
Home to a state-supported Russian opera troupe. Focal point for music in St. Petersburg |
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Mily Balakirev |
Pianist and composer who led the kuchka |
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Kuchka |
Mighty Handful, group of Balakirev's followers, also called The Five |
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Boris Godunov |
Opera by Modest Mussorgsky, based on a play by Alexander Pushkin that deals with the life of an early Russian tsar |
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Ballet |
A theatrical presentation in which a story or idea is communicated by music, mime and dancing |
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Marie Taglioni |
Ballerina who made en pointe popular |
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Scenarios |
In ballet, stories that have supernatural creatures, about unrequited love, fairy tale atmosphere |
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Choreographer |
Ballet master, leading figure in a ballet |
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Mime |
Leading dancers communicate using hand movements, poses and facial expression |
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Variations |
Dance for single performer, like an aria |
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Divertissements |
Entertainments, episodes w/dancing and spectacle, not related to story |
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Marius Petipa |
Leading figure in Russian Ballet. Principal choreographer at the Imperial Ballet of the Mariinsky Theater. |
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Handel Festival |
Most famous choir festival |
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Pomp and Circumstance |
Five orchestral marches By Edward Elgar |
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B-A-C-H motive |
Bb A C B natural Musical letters of Bach's name |
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Compound Melody |
A melody made by 2 stepwise strands touched alternately |
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Nimrod |
Ninth variation, Centerpiece and longest section of Enigma Variations by Elgar |
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English Hymnal |
Collection of Hymns by Vaughan Williams |
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impresario |
Hired composers, librettists and publishers for pieces to be performed. Receives commission |
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Ricordi |
Publishing house in Milan. Replaces impressario |
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Arturo Toscanini |
Artistic director and principal conductor at La Scalla |
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Verismo |
Realism, short and musically condensed operas in 1 act about violent ppl from lower social classes |
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Celesta |
Bell-like instrument. Ethereal sound |
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Pietro Mascagni |
Composer of verismo opera, Ex: Cavalleria rusticana. |
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Ruggero Leoncavallo |
Composer of Pagliacci (Clowns), verismo |
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Suite |
Collection of dance pieces |
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Das knaben Wunderhorn |
a collection of German folk poems |
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oboe d'amore |
Alto oboe, used by Strauss in Symphonia domestica |
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Alexander Zemlinsky |
Composition teacher to Alma Schindler (Mahler). |
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Arthur Sullivan |
Most successful native English composer of the late 19th century |
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Operetta |
Light opera |
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William Gilbert |
Partnered with Arthur Sullivan to write comic works |
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Choir Festivals |
Summer festivals that featured Amateur and church choirs |
