Exam II Terms

Question 0

Elegant Italian vocal style of the early nineteenth century marked by lyrical, embellished, and florid melodies that show off the beauty, agility, and fluency of the singers voice

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Bel Canto Style

Question 1

In the eighteenth century light French comic opera, which used spoen dialogue instead of Recitatives. In nineteenth century France, opera with spoken dialogue, whether comic or tragic

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Opera Comique

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Part one, cantabile
Slow and lyrical
Smoother in sound
Part two, Cabaletta
Fast with coloratura
Dramatically intense or comic.

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Two Part Aria

Question 3

Works by increasing number of instruments in groups
Works by playing passage in higher keys
Works by playing passage faster
Hypercadential figures

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Rossini Crescendo

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Viva Vittore Emanuele, Re d’Italia

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Viva Verdi

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Nineteenth century trend in which composers sought to evoke the perceived glamour and strangeness of distant lands and foreign cultures

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Exoticism

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In politics and culture, an attempt to unify or represent a particular group of people by creating a national identity through characteristics such as common language, shared culture, historical traditions, and national institutions and rituals.

Nineteenth century and twentieth century trend in music in which composers were eager to enbrace elements in their music that claimed a national identity

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Nationalism

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In an opera or music drama, a motive, theme, or musical idea associated with a person, thing, mood, or idea, which returns in original or altered form throughout.

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Leitmotif

Question 8

Term coined by Richard Wagner for a dramatic work in which poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music are integrated into one artistic expression.

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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Covered Pit
gently raked seats for line of sight.
no aisles, keeping people from getting out.
Premier of Ring in 1876

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Festspielhaus

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Nineteenth century genre created by Richard Wagner in which drama and music become so interdependent as to express a kind of absolute oneness.

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Music Drama

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A method devised by Franz Liszt to provide unity, variety, and a narrative like logic to a composition by transforming the thematic material into new themes or other elements, in order to reflect the diverse moods needed to portray a programmatic subject

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Thematic Transformation

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Term coined by Liszt for a one movement work of program music for orchestra that conveys a poetic idea, story, scene, or secession of moods by presenting themes that are repeated, varied, or transformed

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Symphonic Poem

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Music that is independent of words, drama, visual images, or any kind of representational aspects.

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Absolute Music

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Term coined by Schoenberg for the process of deriving new themes, accompaniments, and other ideas throughout a piece through variations of a germinal idea.

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Developing Variation

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Created by Mahler and now includes the orchestra

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Orchestral Song Cycle

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A symphonic poem, or a similar work for a medium other than orchestra

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Tone Poem

Question 17

Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)
Aleksander Borodin (1833-1887)
Cesar Cui (1835-1918)
Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881)
Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov (1844-1908)

Looked Westward for inspiration
Criticized older forms and praised newer ones
Prized Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, and Liszt.
Wanted Russia to be proud of them for their forward thinking.
Studied with each other for lack of a conservatory
Rubinstein brothers found Russian conservatories in the 1860s on Western models
Tried to combine nationalism with Western forms.
Were mostly musical amateurs.

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The Mighty Five

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Nineteenth century operatic trend that presents everyday people in familiar situations, often depicting sordid or brutal events

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Verismo

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Term derived from art, used for music that evokes moods and visual images through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre.

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Impressionism

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A scale consisting of only whole steps

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Whole Tone Scale

Question 21

Chooses a chord of mixed tritones to serve as the tonic, or “_____ _____”
This chord does not resolve, but transcends resolution
Scriabin develops the piece by altering and transposing this referential chord and adding figuration until the chord returns at the end.
Juxtaposes static blocks of sound
You can hear steps towards the flame.

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Mystic Chord

Question 22

Term for music that is iconoclastic, irreverent, antagonistic, and nihilistic, seeking to overthrow established aesthetics.

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Avant Garde

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A vocal style developed by Schoenberg in which the performer approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following the notated rhythm

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Sprechstimme

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Music that avoids establishing a central pitch or tonal center.

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Atonality

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Term derived from art, in which music avoids all traditional forms of "beauty" in order to express deep personal feelings through exaggerated gestures, angular melodies, and extreme dissonance.

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Expressionism

Question 26

Which Composers first symphony is nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth"?

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Brahms

Question 27

Were Strauss' operas recieved with the same enthusiasm as his symphonic poems?

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Yes

Question 28

Can Liszt be considered a nationalist composer?

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Yes

Question 29

List three composers who temporarily lived in the USA

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Dvorak, Mahler, Schoenberg

Question 30

List the composer who moved PERMANENTLY to the US

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Schoenberg

Question 31

List the composers with Prominent careers as conductors!

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Liszt, Mahler, Brahms

Question 32

List composers who had prominent careers as pianists!

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Liszt, Gottschalk, Chopin, Brahms, Scriabin, Rachmaninov