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