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Mahler #1: The Tennessee Titan Symphony Flashcards

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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
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
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
Charles Ives American (The only complete piece from his "Men of Literature" series)
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Rodeo
Aaron Copland American (Best known for its Hoe-Down section)
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Satyagaraha
Philip Glass American (second part of his opera Portrait Trilogy)
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Semper Fidelis
John Philip Sousa American
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Shaker Loops
John Adams American
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Short Ride on a Fast Machine
John Adams American (represents a train) (features a constant woodblock beat) (subtitled 'Fanfare for Great Woods')
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Stars and Stripes Forever
John Philip Sousa American
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The Concord Sonata
Charles Ives American
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The Liberty Bell
John Philip Sousa American (also the theme to 'Monty Python's Flying Circus')
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The Tender Land
Aaron Copland and Horace Everett American
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The Unanswered Question of Existence
Charles Ives American (a trumpet plays the "Perennial Question of Existence")
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The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
John Cage American (inpsired by Joyce's Finnegan's Wake)
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Three Places in New England
Charles Ives American (Redding, Connecticut, and Boston Common)
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Toltec Symphony
Philip Glass American
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Vanessa (opera)
Samuel Barber American
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Washington Post March
John Philip Sousa American
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West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein American
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Harold In Italy Symphony #2
Hector Berlioz French (Included the section "Serenade of an Abruzzi mountaineer to his mistess) (comissioned by Paganinni)
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Damnation of Faust | (opera)
Hector Berlioz French
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Symphonie Fantastique Symphony #1
Hector Berlioz French (includes the March to the Scaffold) (Includes the Dream of a Witches Sabbath) (Dies Irae is at the end)
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Minute Waltz
Frederic Chopin Polish
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Revolutionary Etude
Frederic Chopin Polish (got its name from the November Rising)
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Twenty Three Polonaises
Frederic Chopin Polish (dance of Polish nature)
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69 mazurkas
Frederic Chopin Polish
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Fausa (opera) -includes Marguierrite's "Jewel Aria"
Charles Gonoud French
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Carnival of the Animals
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"
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Dance Macabre
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"
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Organ Symphony Symphony #3
Camille Saint-Saens French (Part of this is the theme to Babe)
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The Fair Maid of Perth
Georges Bizet French - Centers around Catherine Glover - Based on a Sir Walter Scott novel
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L'Arlesienne suites
Georges Bizet French
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The Pearl Fishers
Georges Bizet French (The duet "Au Fond du Temple Saint" is sung by Zurga and Nadir)
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Carmen
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
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Claude Debussy French -Inspired by a stephane Mallarme poem
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Clair de Lune
Claude Debussy French
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La Mer
Claude Debussy French -Includes "The Play of the Waves"
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Children's Corner Suite
Claude Debussy French - Dedicated to his daughter Emma - Includes "Jimbo's Lullaby" and "Golliwogg's Cakewalk"
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Preludes -Includes "The Sunken Cathedral" and "The Girl with Flaxen Hair"
Claude Debussy French
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Nocturnes -includes "Nuages" and "Fetes" aka Clouds and Festivals
Claude Debussy French - Inspired by series of Whistler paintings - Also includes "Sirens" - Based on the now lost "Three Twilight Scenes"
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Suite Bergamesque
Claude Debussy French
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Daphnis et Chloe (ballet)
Maurice Ravel French
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Bolero
Maurice Ravel French - Based on a Spanish dance - Choreographed by Ida Rubenstein - Includes prominent ostinato snare drum
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Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel French
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Gaspard de la Nuit
Maurice Ravel French -Includes the tricky "Scarbo" movement
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Tombeau de Couperin | (The Tomb of Couperin)
Maurice Ravel French - Dedicated to friends who died in WWI - Named for the baroque composer of Concerts Royaux
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La Creation du Monde
Darius Milhaud French -Part of the Les Six
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Only female member of Les Six
Germaine Tailleferre French
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The Breasts of Tireias
Francis Poulenc French -Les Six
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Les Bitches
Francis Poulenc French -Les Six
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Pacific 231
Arthur Honneger French -Les Six (Depicts a locomotive)
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Rugby
Arthur Honneger French -Les Six
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Gymnopedies
Erik Satie French
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Pope Marcellus Mass
Giovanni Palestrina Italy -Supposedly saved polyphany during Council of Trent
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The difference between motets and madrigals
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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