listening midterm 1

Question 1

columba aspexit

Answer 1

hildegard von bingen

Question 2

ave generosa

Answer 2

hildegard von bingen

Question 3

o viridissima virga

Answer 3

hildgard von bingen

Question 4

lagrime mie

Answer 4

barbara strozzi

Question 5

signor, deh non partire

Answer 5

monteverdi - l’incoronazione di poppea

poppea wants nero to stay with her/promise he will return, but he says he can’t until octavia has been banished

Question 6

or che seneca e morto

Answer 6

monteverdi - l’incoronazione di poppea

nero celebrates senecas death with luccaro and sings about poppeas sexual prowess over senecas dead body

Question 7

pur ti miro

Answer 7

monteverdi - l’incoronazione di poppea

poppea and nero declare love for each other after ottavia has been banished

Question 8

cesare all tua destra/ va tacito

Answer 8

handel - giulio cesare
cesare and ptolemy subtle confrontation - cesare subtley threatens ptolemy by saying he recognizes his betrayal in the future

Question 9

duetto caro bella

Answer 9

handel - giulio cesare

cleopatra and cesare declare love for each other

Question 10

ave maria

Answer 10

bach-gounod

Question 11

non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio

Answer 11

mozart - le nozze di figaro

cherubin is horny and just wants to find love - is being emotional and unstable - hiding from captain

Question 12

porgi, amor, qualche ristoro

Answer 12

mozart - le nozze di figaro

countess wants her loved one back and begs to die if she can’t have him

Question 13

venite inginochiatevi

Answer 13

mozart - le nozze di figaro

sussana combs cherubinos hair and cherubino gazes at the countess

Question 14

symphony no 3 in e flat major

Answer 14

beethoven

hero myth

Question 15

symphony no 8 in B minor

Answer 15

franz schubert

Question 16

er ist gekommen

Answer 16

clara schumann

Question 17

am strande

Answer 17

clara schumann

water moving - written from female perspective but text by a man – problematic

Question 18

lorelei

Answer 18

clara schumann

woman writing about a women - penned women into particular emotional roles and confined self in a way

Question 19

variations on a theme by robert schumann

Answer 19

clara schumann

issues of agency because she just rewriting his works after he dies – felt unconfident in her music

Question 20

seit ich ihn gehesen

Answer 20

robert schumann - frauenliebe und leben

written from female perspective by a man

Question 21

er, der herrlichste von allen

Answer 21

robert schumann - frauenliebe und leben

written from female perspective by a man

Question 22

du ring an meinem Finger

Answer 22

robert schumann - frauenliebe und leben

written from female perspective by a man

Question 23

sulla tomba che rinserra il il tradito genitore

Answer 23

donzinetti - lucia di lammermoor

lucia and edgar declare love for each other in spite of family feud

Question 24

verranno a te sullaure i miei sospiri ardenti

Answer 24

donzinetti - lucia di lammermoor

take sworn vow of marriage

Question 25

il dolce suono

Answer 25

donzinetti - lucia di lammermoor mad scene where lucia talks about her love for edgar and her imagined marriage to him -- she is on edge of death emotionally and physically

Question 26

spargi damaro pianto

Answer 26

donzinetti - lucia di lammermoor | stair scene where lucia is about to die

Question 27

sur la place chacun passe

Answer 27

bizet - carmen | soldiers walking around square and commenting what odd people

Question 28

habanera

Answer 28

bizet - carmen talking about how love is a bird - flirts with everyone and is vaguely provacative towards the people in the square and eventually corrupts them in a sense

Question 29

seguidilla

Answer 29

bizet - carmen | carmen flirting with don jose

Question 30

flower song

Answer 30

bizet - carmen | don jose thinking about the flower carmen gave him

Question 31

cest toi cest moi

Answer 31

bizet - carmen | confrontation between carmen and don jose where he kills her

Question 32

dance of the seven veils

Answer 32

strauss - solome solome dances for father in law and basically does a striptease with some freaky music because she wants the head of john the baptist -- seems corrupt and wrong with hints of othering with the middle eastern music

Question 33

ah du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund Kassen lassen

Answer 33

strauss - solome | ending of solome where solome kisses head of john the baptist - she looks frazzled and frizzy and sweaty -- madness