Exam #4 Flashcards
4 movements
- Slow introduction/Allegro
- Allegro is in Sonata-Allegro form - Andante
- Song form - Scherzo
- Minuet, ABA - Allegro/Presto
- Rondo, ABACADA
The composer of Symphonie Fantastique is:
Hector Berlioz
Which composer is NOT one of the “Big 5: in 19th century Russia:
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, Qui, and Balakirev
The Big 5 are:
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, Qui, and Balakirev
The first composer to utilize the Tone Poem is:
Franz Liszt
The composer who wrote the concert overture “Fingal’s Cave” depicting the caves off of Scotland was:
Felix Mendelssohn
The composer who re-named opera “music drama” was:
Richard Wagner
The composer who represented the struggle for Norway to be independent from Sweden was:
Edvard Grieg
The Tone Poem by Franz Liszt we listened to in class was:
“Mazeppa”
Richard Wagner wrote a series of operas titled
“The Ring.”
The Four operas in the ring cycle are:
Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung
The time difference between a concert overture and a tone poem is:
A tone poem is generally over ten minutes in duration
The composer who wrote music primarily for piano is:
Fredrick Chopin
One of the few French composers who embraced romantic programmatic music (as demonstrated in “Danse Macabre”) was:
Saint-Saens
The composer of the “New World” Symphony is:
Antonin Dvorak
