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Chapters 47-54 Flashcards

1
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Symphony No. 40 in G Minor

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By Mozart

Performed in Vienna

Longer version of “Little” G minor Symphony

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“Prague” Symphony

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By Mozart

Performed in Prague

Dense texture

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“Jupiter” Symphony

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By Mozart

More bright and in C major

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4
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“Haydn” Quartets

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By Mozart

Written in Vienna

Set of six quartets

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“Dissonance” Quartet

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By Mozart

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6
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Turkish music

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Mozart imitates the sounds of Turkish music.

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7
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Concerto-sonata form

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A form for the first movement of Mozart’s concertos.

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Cadenza

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An introduction before the ritornello (first theme) in Mozart’s concerto-sonata form

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Singspiel

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Mozart wrote five Singspiel’s (German comic opera)

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10
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Lorenzo da Ponte

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Wrote librettos for Mozart

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11
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Trouser role

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Sung by a women dressed as a man

Like the boy in Mozart’s Figaro

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12
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Ensemble finale

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Characters collectively bring down the curtain with a finale performance

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13
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Requiem Mass and Dies irae

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Roman Catholic Church funeral music

Chant meaning Day of wrath

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14
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Ferdinand Waldstein

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Count who supported Beethoven

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15
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“Little” G-minor Symphony

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By Mozart

Uses Sturm und Drang (agitated style)

Opening of Amadeus

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16
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WoO numbers

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Work without opus number

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17
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French Revolution

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Monarch to republic in 1789

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18
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Improvisations

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Beethoven’s Vienna improvisations on piano

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19
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Carl Czerny

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Beethoven’s student in Vienna

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20
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Fantasia

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Freedom of form

Like Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven

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21
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Sonata-rondo form

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Mozart uses this form

ABAC

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22
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Episodes

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In rondo form and also sonata-rondo form

Series of contrasting themes

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23
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Heiligenstadt Testament

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Beethoven’s will and letter to the world about his heartache over losing his hearing

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24
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Symphonie concertante

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Concerto with multiple soloists

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25
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Program music

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Instrumental music that expresses nonmusical ideas

26
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Melodrama

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Opera associated with France

27
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Cabaletta

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Second part of aria that is fast, virtuosic and its main melody is heard twice

28
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“Immortal Beloved”

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What Beethoven called his true love

He wrote a letter to her that was never sent and was never able to be with her

29
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Congress of Vienna

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Francis I the king of Austria invited leaders from all of Europe to celebrate the victory of the French emperor abdicating his throne

30
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Bagatelle

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Small pieces for piano

Beethoven wrote two, Opus 119 and 126

31
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“Cavatina” movement

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Fifth movement of Beethoven’s String quartet in B flat major.

Contains intense lyricism

32
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Grosse Fugue (great fugue)

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By Beethoven

Written in his final period where he was trying to revive the contrapuntal style

33
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Archduke Rudolph

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Generous patron of Beethoven’s

Missa solemnis was written for him

34
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Schubertiads

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Private gatherings for Schubert to have his newest pieces performed

35
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Lied/Lieder

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German word for songs

Schubert composed these

36
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Song Cycles

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Groups of songs that belong together in poetry and music

37
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Character pieces

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Short pieces that establish a definite mood

38
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Strophic form

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Same melody different lyrics (stanzas)

39
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Through-composed form

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Not following any simple repetitive or symmetrical musical plan

40
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Johann Wolfgnag von Goethe

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German writer of poetry

41
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Ballad

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Poem in stanzas that tells a story and rises quickly to a dramatic climax

Like Schubert’s “Erlkönig”

42
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Scena

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Operatic type of song that is not symmetrical and has contrasting sections

43
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Grand opera

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Long length, chorus and ballet and a lot of scenic effects

44
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Giacomo Meyerbeer

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Composer of grand opera (1791-1864)

45
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Concert overtures

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Shorter works

Berlioz wrote these

46
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Progronnatic Symphony

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A multi-movement symphonic work about a none musical idea

47
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Idée fixe

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Berlioz’s name for a recurrent melody

48
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Cyclicism

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Recurrence of a theme in several movements of the same piece

49
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George Sand

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Mistress of Chopin

This was her pen name

50
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Mazurka

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Chopin liked to write these polish dances

51
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Nocturne

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Chopin wrote 21

Each has a special character

52
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Etude

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Studies by Chopin

53
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Rubato

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Freedom in tempo for expression purposes

54
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Hugo Riemann

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Theorist

Developed functional harmony

55
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Functional harmony

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Chord structures having one of three function

Tonic, dominant, subdominant

56
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Complete works

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Publishing company published works by a great composer from the past

(They did one of J.S. Bach)

57
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Bartholdy

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Mendelssohn’s Christian name

58
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Bach Revival

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Bach’s music was published and studied

59
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Canon

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Body of musical work

Mendelssohn

60
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Florestan and Eusebius

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Shumann’s alter egos that were dreamy sides of his personality

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