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Mahler #1: The Tennessee Titan Symphony Flashcards

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1
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4’33”

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John Cage

American

(Consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence)

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Appalachian Spring

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Aaron Copland

American

(ballet that includes the Shaker hymn ‘Simple Gifts’)

(Martha Graham choreographed it)

(celebrates a newlywed couple building a Pennsylvania farmhouse)

(ends with the Bride and her husband ‘quiet and strong in their new house’)

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Adagio for Strings

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Samuel Barber

American

(played at FDR and JFK)

(Featured prominently in the movie Platoon)

(Inspired by a passage in Virgil’s Georgics about a small stream slowly growing into a river)

(premiered along with his First Essay for Orchestra by Arturo Toscanini in 1938)

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Akhenaton

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Philip Glass

American

(Third part of his opera Portrait Trilogy)

(Akhenaton killed in “The Attack and Fall of the City”)

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Billy the Kid

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Aaron Copland

American

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Candide (operetta)

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Leonard Bernstein

American

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Doctor Atomic

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John Adams

American

(Dramatizes the Trinity Test at Los Alamos)

(Includes characters such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer)

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Death of Klinghoffer

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John Adams

American

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Einstein on the Beach

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Philip Glass

American

(1st part of his opera Portrait Trilogy)

(Consists of 5 “Knee Plays”)

(Three scenes are dubbed Train, Trial, and Field/Spaceship)

(Includes “Mr. Bojangles” and “I Feel the Earth Move”)

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El Capitan

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John Philip Sousa

American

(An opera in which Estrelda falls in love with Don Enrico Medigua)

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Fanfare for the Common Man

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Aaron Copland

American

(inspired by a speech by Vice President Henry Wallace)

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El Salon Mexico

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Aaron Copland

American

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Grand Canyon Suite

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Ferde Grofe

American

(Grofe also arranged ‘Rhapsody in Blue’)

(includes the bouncy “On the Trail” movement)

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Hail to the Chief

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John Philip Sousa

American

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HPSCHD (“Harpsichord”)

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John Cage and Leiaren Hiller

American

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Imaginary Landscapes series

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John Cage

American

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Kepler (opera)

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Philip Glass

American

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Knoxville: 1914

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Samuel Barber

American

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Lincoln Portrait

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Aaron Copland

American

(Includes spoken word from Lincoln speeches)

(Folk songs in the includes Springfield Mountain and Camptown Races)

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Music of Changes

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John Cage

American

(used the I Ching)

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Nixon in China

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John Adams

American

(Nixon attends the ballet ‘The Red Detachment of Women’)

(“The Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention”)

(Includes the foxtrot, “The Chairman Dances”)

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On the Town (musical)

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Leonard Bernstein

American

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On the Transmigration of Souls

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John Adams

American

(written for the victims of 9/11)

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Porgy and Bess

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George Gershwin

American

(opera based in Charleston’s Catfish Row)

(includes the songs “Summertime” and “Ain’t Necessarily So”)

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The prepared piano

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John Cage

American

(Basically, a piano with all sorts of things inside its strings)

(Has included blenders, power tools, other instruments, etc.)

(Sonatas and Interludes is a collection of twenty pieces for it)

(Also featured in ‘The Perilous Night’)

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Rhapsody in Blue

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George Gershwin

American

(opens with 17-note clarinet glissando)

(used for United Airlines commercials)

(Commissioned by the bandleader Paul Whiteman for 1924’s Experiment in Modern Music)

(After a muted trumpet plays a blues theme in its first movement, the full orchestra joins in before an extended piano solo; that solo was played by its composer at its premiere)

(Victor Herbert contributed to some of the transitional material in this composition, whose success led Walter Damrosch to commission its composer to write a piano concerto in F)

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Robert Browning Overture

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Charles Ives

American

(The only complete piece from his “Men of Literature” series)

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Rodeo

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Aaron Copland

American

(Best known for its Hoe-Down section)

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Satyagaraha

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Philip Glass

American

(second part of his opera Portrait Trilogy)

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Semper Fidelis

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John Philip Sousa

American

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Shaker Loops

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John Adams

American

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Short Ride on a Fast Machine

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John Adams

American

(represents a train)

(features a constant woodblock beat)

(subtitled ‘Fanfare for Great Woods’)

32
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Stars and Stripes Forever

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John Philip Sousa

American

33
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The Concord Sonata

A

Charles Ives

American

34
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The Liberty Bell

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John Philip Sousa

American

(also the theme to ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’)

35
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The Tender Land

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Aaron Copland and Horace Everett

American

37
Q

The Unanswered Question of Existence

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Charles Ives

American

(a trumpet plays the “Perennial Question of Existence”)

38
Q

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

A

John Cage

American

(inpsired by Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake)

39
Q

Three Places in New England

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Charles Ives

American

(Redding, Connecticut, and Boston Common)

40
Q

Toltec Symphony

A

Philip Glass

American

41
Q

Vanessa (opera)

A

Samuel Barber

American

42
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Washington Post March

A

John Philip Sousa

American

43
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West Side Story

A

Leonard Bernstein

American

44
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Harold In Italy

Symphony #2

A

Hector Berlioz

French

(Included the section “Serenade of an Abruzzi mountaineer to his mistess)

(comissioned by Paganinni)

45
Q

Damnation of Faust

(opera)

A

Hector Berlioz

French

46
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Symphonie Fantastique

Symphony #1

A

Hector Berlioz

French

(includes the March to the Scaffold)

(Includes the Dream of a Witches Sabbath)

(Dies Irae is at the end)

47
Q

Minute Waltz

A

Frederic Chopin

Polish

48
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Revolutionary Etude

A

Frederic Chopin

Polish

(got its name from the November Rising)

49
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Twenty Three Polonaises

A

Frederic Chopin

Polish

(dance of Polish nature)

50
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69 mazurkas

A

Frederic Chopin

Polish

51
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Fausa (opera)

-includes Marguierrite’s “Jewel Aria”

A

Charles Gonoud

French

52
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Carnival of the Animals

A

Camille Saint-Saens

French

Includes:

  • “Fossils”
  • “Tortoises”, parodies Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld by slowing it down immensely
  • “The Swan”, only portion of the work to be published during his lifetime
  • “The Aquarium”
53
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Dance Macabre

A

Camille Saint-Saens

French

  • The crow of the cock scares away dancing skeletons
  • Was parodied in the “Fossils” section of Carnival of the Animals
  • Based on a Henri Cazalis poem that begins “Zig, Zig, Zig, Death in cadence”
54
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Organ Symphony

Symphony #3

A

Camille Saint-Saens

French

(Part of this is the theme to Babe)

55
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The Fair Maid of Perth

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Georges Bizet

French

  • Centers around Catherine Glover
  • Based on a Sir Walter Scott novel
56
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L’Arlesienne suites

A

Georges Bizet

French

57
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The Pearl Fishers

A

Georges Bizet

French

(The duet “Au Fond du Temple Saint” is sung by Zurga and Nadir)

58
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Carmen

A

Georges Bizet

French

  • Don Jose kills her
  • Includes the Toreador Song and Habanera
  • Habanera includes the line “Love is a rebellious bird”
  • Lt. Zuniga competes for Carmen’s affection
  • Based on a novel by Prosper Merimee
  • Carmen throws away her ring at Escamillo’s bull fight
  • The fate motif plays as Carmen’s doom is predicted when her friends play cards
  • Frasquita and Mercedes play the cards
  • Part set in Lillas Pastia’s inn, where Dancaire and Remendado plan their next exploit
59
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

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Claude Debussy

French

-Inspired by a stephane Mallarme poem

60
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Clair de Lune

A

Claude Debussy

French

61
Q

La Mer

A

Claude Debussy

French

-Includes “The Play of the Waves”

62
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Children’s Corner Suite

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Claude Debussy

French

  • Dedicated to his daughter Emma
  • Includes “Jimbo’s Lullaby” and “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk”
63
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Preludes

-Includes “The Sunken Cathedral” and “The Girl with Flaxen Hair”

A

Claude Debussy

French

64
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Nocturnes

-includes “Nuages” and “Fetes” aka Clouds and Festivals

A

Claude Debussy

French

  • Inspired by series of Whistler paintings
  • Also includes “Sirens”
  • Based on the now lost “Three Twilight Scenes”
65
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Suite Bergamesque

A

Claude Debussy

French

66
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Daphnis et Chloe (ballet)

A

Maurice Ravel

French

67
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Bolero

A

Maurice Ravel

French

  • Based on a Spanish dance
  • Choreographed by Ida Rubenstein
  • Includes prominent ostinato snare drum
68
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Pavane for a Dead Princess

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Maurice Ravel

French

69
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Gaspard de la Nuit

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Maurice Ravel

French

-Includes the tricky “Scarbo” movement

70
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Tombeau de Couperin

(The Tomb of Couperin)

A

Maurice Ravel

French

  • Dedicated to friends who died in WWI
  • Named for the baroque composer of Concerts Royaux
71
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La Creation du Monde

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Darius Milhaud

French

-Part of the Les Six

72
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Only female member of Les Six

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Germaine Tailleferre

French

73
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The Breasts of Tireias

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Francis Poulenc

French

-Les Six

74
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Les Bitches

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Francis Poulenc

French

-Les Six

75
Q

Pacific 231

A

Arthur Honneger

French

-Les Six

(Depicts a locomotive)

76
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Rugby

A

Arthur Honneger

French

-Les Six

77
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Gymnopedies

A

Erik Satie

French

78
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Pope Marcellus Mass

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Giovanni Palestrina

Italy

-Supposedly saved polyphany during Council of Trent

79
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The difference between motets and madrigals

A

Motets are renaissance pieces that are also called “sacred madrigals”

Motets are in Latin

Madrigals are vernacular

Montiverdi originally wrote motets

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