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11 Cards in this Set
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Erlkonig
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Schubert
(starts with quick one note and bass rhythm) Man racing his horse through the forest with his sick child 1. the narrator in the middle range and is in minor mode 2. the father lies in the low range and sings both in minor mode and major mode 3. the son lies in a high range, also in minor mode, representing the fright of the child 4. the erlking's vocal line undulates up and down to arpeggiated accompaniment |
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Liebst du um Schonheit
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Schumann
(simple piano, woman soprano, sings name of song) Art Song Modified Strophic "If you love for beauty" - do not love for beauty, youth, or money, but for love wistful, playful AA'A''A''' |
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Symphonie fantastique
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Berlioz
(violin fluttering/rumbling, with some bass) form and orchestration are revolutionary, tells in music a vivid story and, as such, is the first complete program symphony five movements - 1 and 5, and 2 and 4 balance each other in length single melody that reappears as a unifying force in each movement |
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Mazurka (in Bb major)
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Chopin
(simple piano, babumbumbum) Polish folk/ peasant dance heavy beat is on beat 2 (3 beat tune) Jewish underline/theme A A B A C(minor) A C(minor) A Rondo |
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Ah, for's e lu
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Verdi
"Ah, perhaps he's the one" from the opera "La Traviata" slow strophic aria Violetta reveals that Alfredo may be the one true love she has long desired, but then says its impossible |
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Sepre libera
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Verdi
(woman soprano screaming, no accompaniment) "Always free" from the opera "la traviata" show aria for soprano voice Violetta declares forcefully her resolve to remain free of love's entanglements |
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Ride of the Valkyries
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Wagner
(intense violin fluttering with horns) from Die Walkure |
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Liebestod
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Wagner
(starts with woman singing, hardly a violin in the background) "love-death" 4 leitmotifs moving upward so as to convey a sense of continual longing and rising tension an ecstatic vision of their love beyond the grave (their union will only be consummated through death, so she must die next to her lover’s body) |
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Habanera
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Bizet
(folk dance sounding, slow, woman singing, buhbuhbuhbum) dance-song, repeated bass and syncopated rhythms chromatic from Carmen |
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Pictures at an Exhibition
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Musorgsky
(starts with the triumphant horns) reoccurring interlude as if walking through an exhibition meter - irregular - folk dance alternating 5&6 beat measures built on pentatonic scale uses only 5 notes instead of the usual 7 Bb, C, D, F, G |
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Violin Concerto in D Major
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Brahms
(super fast, loud violins) fast and playful but not too lively uses double stops on the violin rondo A B A C B A A - flavor of gypsy tune like Hungarian dances B - racing scales in violin & new theme that moves up & down a major scale C - violin plays a more lyrical theme based on a arpeggio |