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Musicology was established in the 19 th century and scholars began study of what earlier composers according to your text: name two from either the Renaissance or the Baroque Period
Palestrina & Lasso, or Schütz & Bach
Name the music critic who was an advocate of absolute music and attacked program music (first and last name
Eduard Hanslick
Name the composer who wrote an essay defending Berlioz's Harold Symphony's use of program music and the "instrumental poem" (last name)
Liszt
What was Franz Liszt's country of origin
Hungary
What were Liszt’s birth and death years
1811-1886
Who was Liszt’s piano teacher (who in turn was a student of Beethoven) first and last name
Carl Czerny
What well known composer of the time did Liszt study theory and counterpoint with (first and last name)
Antonio Salieri
What court was Liszt music director of from approximately
Weimar
Liszt wrote 13 symphonic works for orchestra (such as Orpheus and Hamlet). Not called “symphonies,” the 19th century form that he helped to develop is called
tone poems
Who was the violinist (first and last name) of the virtuoso violinist that Liszt so admired during his early years and sought to match at the piano (last name)
Niccolo Paganini
Which early 19th century composer’s lieder did Liszt write piano transcriptions/arrangements of (first and last name)
Franz Schubert
How many Hungarian Rhapsodies did Liszt write for piano
19
According to class lectures, in the poem, “Mazeppa,” on which Mazeppa is based, at the end of the relentless horse ride, what happens to the rider
He is named king
Who was the original poet of “Mazeppa”
Victor Hugo
What was Liszt’s method of unifying a composition
thematic transformation?
Clara Schumann was a famous performer on what instrument
Piano
What great composer lived with the Schumann’s (last name)
Brahms
What are Johannes Brahms’ birth and death years
1833-1897
Brahm’s early compositions use Chopin’s chromatic harmony and the singing style of which composer’s character pieces (last name)
Schumann
What form are most of Brahms’ six collections of short piano pieces in
ABA'
Brahms wrote an ensemble piece for strings and an instrument that is a natural horn without valves. Name that instrument
Waldhorn
How many symphonies did Brahms write
4
Brahms’ 1st Symphony is sometimes referred to as whose 10th symphony
Beethoven's
20th Century composer, Arnold Schoenberg wrote an article about Brahms in which he labeled Brahms the
progressive
Brahms purportedly had a long-lasting love with what famous composer’s wife
Robert Schumann
What were Tchaikovsky’s birth and death years
1840-1893
What was Tchaikovsky’s country of origin
Russia
Name Tchaikovsky’s three ballets
Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker
Name one of Tchaikovsky’s two operas
The Queen of Spades
When did Goethe write Faust, Part II
1831
During what years did Victoria reign as Queen of England
1837-1901
When did Darwin publish On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection
1859
When did Tolstoy publish War and Peace
1864-1869
When did Edison invent the phonograph
1877
How many symphonies did Tchaikovsky write
6
Tchaikovsky’s last symphony is subtitled
Pathetique
What happened to Tchaikovsky approximately 8 days after the premiere of his last symphony
He died (possibly suicide)
Dvorak was called “the Bohemian ___________”
Brahms
How many symphonies did Dvorak write
9
According to class lectures, in 1892 Dvorak traveled to America and took the position of Director of what conservatory in New York
National Conservatory
In 1895 in an article in Harpers, Dvorak wrote that Americans are great at so many things but not at composing classical music because instead of creating their own “American sound” they emulate the music of
Europeans
Based on class lectures, Tchaikovsky united the symphonic work of Beethoven and Schumann with the descriptive program music of
Berlioz and Liszt
Based on class lectures, Tchaikovsky’s deeply personal symphonies uncover a dialectic between freewill and
determinism
Which movement in Dvorak’s 9th Symphony opens with a melodic/rhythmic figure and use of timpani that are very similar to the opening of the 2nd Movement in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
3rd
Name one of the character pieces for piano played in class that is written by the composer whose name is asked in the previous question (Schumann)
Carnival
Dvorak was a “nationalist” composer, integrating folk elements from which country
Czechoslovakia
What opera did Dvorak write in 1900 about a water nymph
Rusalka
Dvorak’s 9th Symphony is subtitled
New World Symphony
What was Elgar’s country of origin
England
In class, we listened to Elgar’s “Nimrod” which is from his Variations on an Original Theme which is also known as The ______ Variations
Enigma
According to your text, in the first half of the 19th Century, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, and _______ were at the center or most often composers performed at opera houses
Weber
However, in the second half of the 19th Century, according to your text,________ dominated Italian opera, and ______ dominated German opera (last names)
Verdi, Wagner
Name the composer who wrote Les Huguenots and was a top composer of French Grand Opera (last name)
Meyerbeer
What were Rossini’s birth and death years
1792-1868
Name an opera by Rossini that we heard portions of in class, premiered in 1829 and incorporating French Grand Opera elements declamation and spectacle
Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
Who was the French playwright who wrote the original trilogy of plays based on the Figaro character (last name)
Beaumarchais
While Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro was based on the second part of the Figaro trilogy, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville was based on what part of the Figaro trilogy
The First Part
According to your text, a “typical” Rossini “scene structure begins with an orchestral introduction followed by a ______ section that sets the scene.
Recitative (scena)
Figaro appears in Act I singing what aria studied in class
Largo al factotum
Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is an example of what kind of French opera
Opera bouffe
The important French opera, Carmen, premiered in Paris in 1875 and was written by (first and last name)
Georges Bizet
Carmen was set in what country
Spain
Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale were written by the great Italian opera composer (last name)
Donizetti
Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly was set in what country
Japan
Rudolfo and Mimi were leading characters in what Puccini opera that we studied in class
La Boheme
“Nessun Dorma”, studied in class, is from what opera written by Puccini
Turandot
Calaf’s “secret” that “none shall sleep” to discover in “Nessun Dorma” is what
His name
Al Jolson was sued and paid $25,000 in connection with his 1920 hit, “Avalon” and its similarity to “E Lucevan le Stelle,” an aria we heard in class from which opera by Puccini
Tosca
What were Verdi’s birth and death years
1813-1901
In one word, describe the character Rigoletto’s physical status
Hunchback
The Duke in Rigoletto sings of his frequent conquests of
Women (in “Questo a Quella”)
According to your text, which tragic opera by Verdi was one of his “crowning achievements”, premiered in 1887, and based on a Shakespeare character
Otello
What famous Italian publishing house published Verdi’s works
Giulio Ricordi
Verdi “supported and became identified with” what movement “that aimed to liberate Italy from foreign rule”
Risorgimento (“resurgence”)
Which opera by Verdi is set in Egypt
Aida
What were Wagner’s birth and death years
1813-1883
According to class lectures, Wagner radically transformed the concept of opera by creating an equality of Drama and
Music
Translate Wagner’s use of the German work “Gesamtkunstwerk”
Totally unified artwork
In 1854, which book by Schopenhauer (originally written in 1819) did Wagner read
The World and Representation
According to Ferrara’s work on Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of music is based on two presuppositions: one is that music and nature share certain parallel features. The other presupposition is
Music is the embodiment of the Will
What music theorist does Schopenhauer base his understanding of music theory on (last name)
Rameau
Some Wagner scholars demarcate the early Wagner operas as those originally written prior to his reading of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Name two of those early operas
Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin
The “Pilgrim’s Chorus” we studied in class is from which Wagner opera
Tannhauser
Which Wagner opera was originally intended to be performed without a break, then created in three acts, and today performed without a break
The Flying Dutchman
Name two of the four operas that constitute Wagner’s “Ring” cycle
Das Rheingold, Götterdämmering, Siegfried
In Tristan and Isolde, Wagner moves radically away from diatonic melodic development to ______ melodic development
chromatic
The opening four note leitmotiv in the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde refers to
Their love
(or Tristan's theme?)
In Wagner’s last opera, Parsifal, which we studied in class, the King, Amfortas, loses and is wounded by the evil magician, Klingsor, what weapon
spear
The character Parsifal, turns out to be the person who will heal the King’s wound because he is “a blameless fool made wise _________”
Through pity
The opera “La Traviata” was written by (last name)
Verdi
What great German lieder composer is “best known for adapting Wagner’s methods” and in particular, his “fusion [and equality] of poetry and music and of voice and piano” according to your text (first and last name)
Hugo Wolf
How many symphonies did Anton Bruckner write
11
Name Johann Strauss, Jr’s most famous operetta
Die Fledermaus
What large and popular orchestral work did Camille Saint-Saens write which includes “The Swan”
Carnival of the Animals
According to class lectures, “Danse Macabre” by Saint-Saens is a perfect example of what unifying technique used earlier by Liszt
Thematic transformation
What are Richard Strauss’ birth and death years
1864-1949
“Don Juan” and “Ein Heldenleben” by Richard Strauss represent which compositional form
Tone poems
The opera, Salome, by Richard Strauss, was based on a play by which playwright
Oscar Wilde
What political affiliation did Richard Strauss have that caused Toscanini to comment, “I take my hat off this his music, I leave my hat on to the man”
Reichsmusikkammer (Nazi-established party)
According to your text, Richard Strauss’s “chief models were the programmatic works” of what two composers
Berlioz and Lizst
According to class lectures and your text, which opera by Richard Strauss, written in 1906-1908, took a leap in terms of dissonance, chromaticism, and tonal ambiguity in comparison to his earlier opera, Salome
Elektra
Which German philosopher had an impact on Gustav Mahler’s compositions, particularly following his 3rd Symphony
Nietzche (Shopenhauer?)
The soloist in the fourth movement in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony was originally intended to be performed by a
Male soprano
Gustave Mahler’s wife’s first name is
Alma
According to your text, the composer Mahler “revered” most, and “whose ideas about art as a kind of religion” was
Wagner
According to your text and read in class, what German early nineteenth-century folk collection were the lyrics in the fourth movement of this Fourth Symphony drawn from (English or German title)
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn)
According to your text, what song cycle for tenor and alto soloists with orchestra “rivals the Ninth Symphony as the high point in Mahler’s late works” (English or German)
Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth, 1908)
What was Edvard Grieg’s country of origin
Norway
What was the name of the play by Henrik Ibsen for which Grieg wrote incidental music
Peer Gynt
On what instrument did Percy Grainger perform throughout the world
Piano
According to your text, which “historical drama” by Glinka was the first Russian opera sung throughout
A Life for the Czar
Glinka’s second opera Ruslan and Lyudmila was based on a poem by what leading Russian poet (last name)
Pushkin
Give the last names of the group of Russian nationalist composers known as the “Might Handful” or “Mighty Five”
Balakirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Musorgsky, Cui
According to your text, the compositional models for the Mighty Handful were Liszt and Berlioz. The text also notes that the Mighty Handful “worshipped” two other composers. Give the last names of those two other composers
Chopin and Glinka
According to your text, Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov imitates Russian
Folk songs
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade is based on tales from the
Arabian Nights
Regarding “new currents in Italian opera,” your text notes that operas whose characters represented everyday people in common circumstances paralleled realism in literature. What is the Italian term for this approach to opera writing
verismo
“Hungarian Rhapsody” #2 for piano
Liszt
“Mazeppa” for Orchestra
Liszt
Brahms Symphony #1, 1st Mvt.
TBD
Brahms Symphony #1, 4th Mvt.
TBD
Brahms Intermezzo- what key and opus no?
in A, Opus 118 No. 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, 2nd Movement
TBD
Tchaikovsky Symphony #6- 1st Mvt.
TBD
Tchaikovsky Symphony #6- 4th Mvt.
TBD
Dvorak 9th Symphony- 2nd Mvt.
TBD
Dvorak 9th Symphony- 3rd Mvt.
TBD
Dvorak 9th Symphony- 4th Mvt.
TBD
Who composed “Nimrod” from “Variations on an Original Theme”?
Elgar
Who composed “Largo al Factotum” and what opera is it from?
Rossini, Barber of Seville
“Che gelida manina”
composer, opera?
Puccini, La Boheme
“Si, Mi chiamino”
Composer, Opera?
Puccini, from Act I of La Boheme
“O soave fanciulla”
Composer, opera?
Puccini- from Act I of La Boheme
“Nessun dorma”
Composer/opera?
Puccini, from the final act of Turandot
"Questa o quella"
Verdi, from Act One of Rigoletto
"Caro nome"
Verdi, from Act One of Rigoletto
"La donna e mobile"
Verdi, from Act Three of Rigoletto
Wagner, Prelude to Act One of The Flying Dutchman
TBD
Wagner, Prelude to Act One of Tannhauser
TBD
Wagner, Prelude to Act One of Tristan and Isolde
TBD
"The Laughing Song"
Johann Strauss, Jr. from Die Fledermaus
"Danse Macabre"
Camille Saint-Saens
“Ein Heldenleben”
Richard Strauss
Elektra
Richard Strauss
Gustave Mahler, Fourth Movement of Fourth Symphony
TBD
“Night on Bald Mountain”
Modest Musorgsky
Musorgsky, three sections from “Pictures at an Exhibition”: “Promenade,” “Ballet of Unhatched Chicks,” and “The Great Gate of Kiev.”
TBD