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Final Songs Flashcards

1
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Orpheus song title

A

Act Two Finale

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Orpheus composer

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Jacques Offenbach

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3
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Composer of the first operetta

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Jacques Offenbach

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4
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Show Boat music

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Jerome Kern

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5
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Show Boat lyrics

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Oscar Hammerstein II

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Show Boat novel

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Edna Ferber

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Coloratura

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elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, especially in operatic singing by a soprano.

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Concept Album

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a rock album featuring a cycle of songs expressing a particular theme or idea.

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Operetta

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a short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue.

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Orchestration

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the arrangement or scoring of music for orchestral performance.

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11
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Cantata

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a medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.

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Ostinato

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a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.

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13
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Fourth Wall

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the space that separates a performer or performance from an audience.

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Musical Play

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focus on superior libretto, possibly from a “serious” source like a novel or straight play, socially important subject matter, music is organic to libretto, fully integrated elements

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Libretto

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the text of an opera or other long vocal work.

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Leitmotif

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a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.

17
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Dies Irae Melody

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melody from a roman catholic mass called “mass for the dead”, directly translates to “day of wrath”

18
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Pointillism

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a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer’s eye.

19
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Polyphonic

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producing many sounds simultaneously; many-voiced.

20
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Book Musical

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tell a narrative while Revues are a collection of acts - sometimes with a theme, sometimes completely disparate

21
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Pirates music

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Arthur Sullivan

22
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Pirates libretto

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William Gilbert

23
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Oklahoma composer

A

Richard Rogers

24
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Oklahoma libretto

A

Oscar Hammerstein II

25
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Oklahoma based on

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Book by Lynn Riggs called “Green Grow the Lilacs”

26
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Music Man music/lyrics/book

A

Meredith Wilson

27
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Anne music

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Norman Campbell

28
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Anne orchestration

A

John Fenwick

29
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Anne book

A

Don Harron

30
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Anne based on

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Novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery

31
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Sweeny Todd Music/Lyrics

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Steven Sondheim

32
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Sweeny book

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Hugh Wheeler

33
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Sweeny Orchestration

A

Jonathan Tunick

34
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Sweeny director

A

Hal Prince

35
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Sunday Music/lyircs

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Steven Sondheim

36
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Sunday book

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James Lapine

37
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Sunday orchestration

A

Jonathan Tunick

38
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Sunday director

A

James Lapine

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