Exam II Terms Flashcards
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
Bel Canto Style
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
Opera Comique
Part one, cantabile Slow and lyrical Smoother in sound Part two, Cabaletta Fast with coloratura Dramatically intense or comic.
Two Part Aria
Works by increasing number of instruments in groups
Works by playing passage in higher keys
Works by playing passage faster
Hypercadential figures
Rossini Crescendo
Viva Vittore Emanuele, Re d’Italia
Viva Verdi
Nineteenth century trend in which composers sought to evoke the perceived glamour and strangeness of distant lands and foreign cultures
Exoticism
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
Nationalism
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.
Leitmotif
Term coined by Richard Wagner for a dramatic work in which poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music are integrated into one artistic expression.
Gesamtkunstwerk
Covered Pit
gently raked seats for line of sight.
no aisles, keeping people from getting out.
Premier of Ring in 1876
Festspielhaus
Nineteenth century genre created by Richard Wagner in which drama and music become so interdependent as to express a kind of absolute oneness.
Music Drama
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
Thematic Transformation
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
Symphonic Poem
Music that is independent of words, drama, visual images, or any kind of representational aspects.
Absolute Music
Term coined by Schoenberg for the process of deriving new themes, accompaniments, and other ideas throughout a piece through variations of a germinal idea.
Developing Variation
