Classical Music (Non-Opera) Flashcards
wedding march
felix mendelssohn [GERMAN]
the one of “the 3 Bs” who isn’t bach or beethoven & “lullaby”
johannes brahms [GERMAN]
canon in d
johann pachelbel [GERMAN]
messiah & “water music”
george frideric handel (german-english) [GERMAN]
thus spake zarathustra
richard strauss [GERMAN]
spring symphony & pianist wife clara
robert schumann [GERMAN]
carmina burana
carl orff [GERMAN]
waltzes in general & “the blue danube waltz” in particular
johann strauss ii [AUSTRIAN]
lieder composer & “unfinished symphony”
franz schubert [AUSTRIAN]
surprise symphony & the nickname “papa”
joseph haydn [AUSTRIAN]
symphony of a thousand & “husband of alma schindler”
gustav mahler [AUSTRIAN]
the concept of “atonalism”
arnold schoenberg [AUSTRIAN]
prelude to the afternoon of a faun & “la mer” & “clair de lune”
claude debussy [FRENCH]
bolero
maurice ravel [FRENCH]
the carnival of the animals & “danse macabre”
camille saint-saens [FRENCH]
symphonie fantastique
hector berlioz [FRENCH]
ave maria
charles gounod [FRENCH]
the planets
gustav holst [UK]
pomp and circumstance
edward elgar [UK]
rhapsody in blue & “an american in paris”
george gershwin [USA]
appalachian spring & “rodeo” & “fanfare for the common man”
aaron copland [USA]
grand canyon suite
ferde grofe [USA]
4′33″ of silence & the american avant-garde
john cage [USA]
1812 overture
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky [RUSSIAN]
flight of the bumblebee
nikolai rimsky-korsakov [RUSSIAN]
night on bald mountain
modest mussorgsky [RUSSIAN]
peter and the wolf
sergei prokofiev [RUSSIAN]
leningrad symphony
dmitri shostakovich [RUSSIAN]
references to the notion of piano virtuosity
sergei rachmaninoff [RUSSIAN]
the four seasons
antonio vivaldi [ITALIAN]
references to the notion of violin virtuosity
niccolo paganini [ITALIAN]
