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popular American song from the early 20th century has this real-life railway engineer give his life in a train crash to save his passengers by staying to apply the brakes instead of jumping out

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Casey Jones

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An opera by Giuseppe Verdi where the title character is an Ethiopian slave who loves an Egyptian warrior Radames. He accidentally reveals his Egyptian military secrets to her and is condemned to death by live burial in a tomb, she flees but rejoins Radames to die with him

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Aida

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musical direction to play quickly, a brisk lively tempo

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allegro

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20th century Black opera singer known for her performances of spirituals, denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall due to her race, she sang at the Lincoln Memorial for 75,000 people

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Marian Anderson

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A piece of music for one voice (or maybe 2) in an opera, melodious (unlike recitative singing), usually elaborate (unlike ordinary songs)

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aria

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nicknamed “Satchmo”, short for “Satchel Mouth”, sang “Hello, Dolly”

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Louis Armstrong

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18th century German composer, greatest composer of the Baroque era, wrote mostly organ (master of the organ), church, and orchestral music

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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6 “Brandenburg Concertos”, “Toccata and Fugue in D-minor”, “The Well-Tempered Clavier”

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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20th century black Jazz pianist and band leader, known for the “Big Band” sound popular in the 1930s and 1940s, “One O’Clock Jump”

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Count Basie

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German composer from Vienna 1770-1827, works spanned the Classic and Romantic musical traditions, considered one of the greated composers of all time

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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composer who grew deaf midway through his career, but continued to compose great works (some say his best)

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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composed 9 symphonies (Third Symphony (Eroica), Fifth Symphony (du du du dum), Sixth (Pastoral Symphony), and Ninth Symphony (Choral (Ode to Joy)) are the most famous)

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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composed “Moonlight Sonata” (slow: 123-123-123-123) and other sonatas for piano, “Fur Elise” (545454545-4542-1234-2345), composed string quartets, concertos too

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Composers: “the 3 B’s”

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Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

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German composer who never married but did have eyes for his “Immortal Beloved”

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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his only opera was “Fidelio” (1805)

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Haydn was his teacher, Mozart apparently also taught him

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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American hymn from the civil war written by Julia Ward Howe after visiting the Union army, to the tune of “John Brown’s Body”

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“Battle Hymn of the Republic”

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street in the black section of Memphis, known for Blues music

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Beale Street

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20th century American writer of popular songs such as “God Bless America”, “White Christmas”, and “There’s No Business like Show Business”, and the play “Annie Get your Gun”

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Irving Berlin

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19th century French composer, best known for his opera “Carmen” featuring songs “Habanera (87666543-54323212321) and “Toreador Song” (dum dee da dum dum - day dah dum dee dum)

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Georges Bizet (bee-zay)

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theater in Moscow known for its ballet, named after Russian word for “big” and appears on the 100 Ruble note

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Bolshoi Theater

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19th century German composer (Romanticism), wrote “Lullaby” (lullaby and good night - that song that puts babies to sleep)

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Johannes Brahms

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Italian tenor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the greatest tenors in history of Opera

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Enrico Caruso

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music for 2+ instruments where only one musician plays each part (as opposted to orchestra where there could be many violinists playing the same part), e.g. string quartet

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chamber music

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19th century Polish romantic composer born in Warsaw, child prodigy, spent most of his career in France, known for his experessive piano pieces (most for solo piano), very technically demanding, also did waltzes, had an affair with novelist George Sand

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Frederic Chopin

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20th century American jazz and swing musician, known as the “King of Swing”, most famous clarinet player, led the first well-known racially integrated jazz group

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Benny Goodman

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an ending to a piece of music, standing outside the formal structure of the piece, also Italian for “tail”

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coda

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American songwriter and entertainer of the early 20th century, known for “Over There”, “Yankee Doodle Dandy”, and “You’re a Grand Old Flag”, played by Jimmy Cagney in the movie “Yankee Doodle Dandy”

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George M. Cohan

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20th century composer, known for ballets “Appalachian Spring” (tis the gift to be simple), “Billy the Kid” and “Rodeo” (Where’s the beef theme), wrote “Fanfare for the Common Man” (in Saving Private Ryan), did scores for films as well

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Aaron Copland

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Sang “White Christmas” in the movie “Holiday Inn” (hotel named after the movie), his style labeled him as a “crooner” (given to male singers of jazz), won Academy Award in “Going My Way” (1944)

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Bing Crosby

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late 19th/early 20th century French composer, “Clair de lune” (Moonlight)(Erica’s song) piano piece, “La Mer” (The Sea) orchestra piece, associated with impressionist music

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Claude Debussy

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opera by Mozart recounting the dissolute life of Don Juan, at the end a statue of a man that the main character has killed comes to life and sends him to hell

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Don Giovanni

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“Blowin in the Wind” (how many roads must a man walk down..), “The Times They Are A-Changin”, “Like a Rolling Stone” (how does it feeeeel?), “Knockin on Heaven’s Door”, “Mr Tambourine Man”

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Bob Dylan

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“Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”, “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing” (coined the term swing music), “Take the A Train”, “Mood Indigo”, “Satin Doll”, “Sophisticated Lady”

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Duke Ellington

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20th century Black jazz and popular singer, “Queen of Jazz”, also scat (improv technique), “First Lady of Song”, Is it Live, or is it Memorex? commercials

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Ella Fitzgerald

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19th century American songwriter, “Oh! Susanna”, “Camptown Races”

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Stephen Foster

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20th century American composer of opera “Porgy and Bess” (Summertime and the living is eaaaaasy), also wrote many popular musical comedies with his brother Ira, died at 38

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George Gershwin

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Two Englishment of the 19th century who wrote witty operettas satirizing Victorian society, “H.M.S. Pinafore”, “The Mikado”, and “The Pirates ofPenzance”

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Gilbert & Sullivan

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18th century German-born Baroque composer who mostly lived in England, “Messiah” and other oratorios (he developed the English Oratorio), concertos, “Water Music”

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George Frederick Handel

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18th century Austrian Classical composer, nicknamed “Papa” for being the “Father of the Symphony”, “Surprise Symphony” (because it has a loud part in a quiet movement to wake the ladies), “Farewell Symphony” (where each player stops playing and exits one by one), also composed many string quartets, taught Beethoven and friends with Mozart, “London Symphonies”

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Franz Joseph Haydn (high-den)

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20th century Black musician known for innovative electric guitar playing, died at 28 in London, “Purple Haze” (ECU football entrance song)

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Jimi Hendrix

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late 19th/early 20th Black ragtime pianist and composer, “Maple Leaf Rag”, “The Entertainer”

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Scott Joplin

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20th century American singer, leadsinger of the band “Big Brother and the Holding Company” and later as a solo artist, died at 27 (16 days after Hendrix also OD’ed), “Me & Bobby McGee” from her last posthumous album “Pearl”

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Janis Joplin

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20th century American singer, lead singer of “The Doors”, died (OD) at 27, left the group in 1971 to do poetry in Paris (where he died), nicknamed “The Lizard King”, “Light My Fire”

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Jim Morrison

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19th century Hungarian composer and pianist known for his fiery style of composition and performance, “Hungarian Rhapsodies” (tom and jerry) for piano, Budapest airport named after him, his daughter married Richard Wagner (also influenced)

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Franz Liszt

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An opera by Giacomo Puccini, a Japanese woman Cio-Cio San is betrothed to an American naval officer Lt. Pinkerton stationed in Japan, leaves for the US promising to return but comes back 3 years later married to an American woman, she stabs herself and dies in his arms

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Madame Butterfly

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Musical by Schonberg set in Bangkok & Ho Chi Minh City during the end of the Vietnam War, based on the opera “Madame Butterfly” (romance between an American GI and Vietnamese bar girl), features Lea Salonga

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Miss Saigon

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Opera by Mozart, a prince Tamino receives a ___ from the Queen of the Night and sets out to rescue the queen’s daughter from an Egyptian priest, he succeeds and the two are married

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The Magic Flute

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late 19th/early 20th Austrian composer and conductor, wrote long, intensely emotional works for large orchestras including 9 symphonies and part of a 10th, his 8th symphony is known as the “Symphony of a Thousand” because that’s how many musicians you need to play it

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Gustav Mahler

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The name of the French national anthem, written during the French Revolution

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La Marsellaise (mahr se yez)

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19th German Romantic composer and performer, “Scottish Symphony”, the music for a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (later became the wedding march) and other symphonies, overtures, and concertos

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, about the efforts of a Japanese prince Nanki-Poo disguises as a wandering minstrel to fall in love with Yum-Yum (daughter of the Executioner Ko-Ko), Poo-Bah is the “Lord High Everything Else”, “Three Little Maids from School”,

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The Mikado

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20th American composer and big band leader, “In the Mood” (saxophone party song), “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, Jimmy Stewart played him in “The ___ Story” a movie about him, plane was reported missing in December 1944

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Glenn Miller

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The 3 leading composers of the classic era

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven

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18th Austrian composer, child prodigy homeschooled by his father Leopold he started composing music before he was 5, “A Little Night Music” (most famous classical song ever), “Jupiter Symphony”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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operas “Don Giovanni”, “The Marriage of Figaro”, “The Magic Flute”, and “Cosi fan tutte”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Russian ballet dancer, considered one of the best male dancers of the 20th century, “The Afternoon of a Faun”

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Vaslav Nijinsky

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a lighthearted, comic opera (like ones written by Gilbert and Sullivan), generally has more spoken dialogue

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operetta

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musical composition for voices and orchestra, tells a religious story, concert piece, not musical theater like an opera (little to no interaction between characters, and little to no props)

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oratorio

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music for instruments alone, an introduction to a longer work such as an opera, oratorio, or musical comedy

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overture

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20th Italian tenor, debuted in “La Boheme” in 1961, featured in “The Three Tenors” - him, Jose Carreras, and Placido Domingo, “Nessun Dorma” (best opera song ever)

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Luciano Pavarotti

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20th century black dancer & singer, famous for wearing a banana dress in Paris in 1920s

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Josephine Baker

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fast-paced dance with elaborate arm movements that was popular in the 1920s

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Charleston

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20th century American songwriter and folksinger, flourished in the 1930s writing songs about the Great Depression, “This Land is Your Land”, played on a guitar with a sticker that said “This Machine Kills Fascists”, “Bound for Glory” was a movie about him (also his song), the Dust Bowl Troubadour

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Woody Guthrie

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Orchestral piece by 20th century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tells the story of a disobedient boy’s encounter with an animal, each character in the story is represented by a different musical instrument, used to introduce children to the various instruments in an orchestra

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Peter and the Wolf (1936)

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Composer of the orchestra “Peter and the Wolf”

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Sergei Prokofiev

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A comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan about the marriage of the beautiful daughter of the capain of the ship in the title, “I’m Called Little Buttercup”

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H.M.S. Pinafore

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Opera by George Gershwin (his only full-length opera), depicts the life in the black community of Charleston, SC, ___ is a handicapped beggar who protects ___, only to have her leave town with a rival, “Summertime” (Summertime, and the living is eaaaaaasy - a lullaby to her baby), “I Got Plenty O Nothing”

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Porgy and Bess

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20th American songwriter who also wrote musicals, “Anythig Goes”, “I Get a Kick out of You”, “I’ve Got You under My Skin”, “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love”, “Night and Day”, known for witty, sophisiticated lyrics, Frank Sinatra sang a lot of his songs

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Cole Porter

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the leading ballerina in a dance company

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prima ballerina

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19th/20th Italian composer of operas, “Madame Butterfly”, “La Boheme”, “Tosca”, the greatest Italian opera composer after Verdi

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Giacomo Puccini

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Rent was partly based on this opera about lovers in poverty set in Paris, the poet Rodolfo falls in love with his seamstress Mimi who suffers from tuberculosis, she dies

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La Boheme

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Floria ___ is pursued by the evil Scarpia, chief of Roman police, she stabs him and jumps off a bridge, “Vissi d’Arte”

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Tosca

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Puccini’s final opera, left unfinished when he died, Prince Calaf falls in love with the cold Princess ___ set in China, to obtain permission to marry her he must solve 3 riddles, any wrong answer means death, he passes the test but she refuses to marry him, somehow changes her mind once he learns his name and they end up lovers, “Nessun dorma”

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Turandot

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a musical composition, during Mass for one or more dead persons, contains biblical passages and prayers for admission into heaven

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Requiem

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a series of four operas by Richard Wagner based on Norse mythology, based on Siegfried and Brunnhilde, everyone fights over a ring, ends with everyone dying including all the Gods dying in a fire, the opera is named after mythical dwarves called ___

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Ring of the Nibelung (nee-buh-loong)

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Black American guitarist, one of the pionerrs of rock and roll, “Roll Over Beethoven”, “Johnny B. Goode”, “Sweet Little Sixteen” (same tune as Surfin U.S.A.), “Maybellene”, the first inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, influenced the Beatles and Bob Dylan

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Chuck Berry

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American singer-songerwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll, , “Peggy Sue”, “That’ll Be The Day” (when I die), “It’s So Easy” (to fall in love) his band was him and the Crickets (name inspired the Beatles), played by Gary Busey in a movie

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Buddy Holly

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wore hornrimmed glasses, his success lasted only 1.5 years as he died in a plane crash along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (“American Pie” (The Day the Music Died) song was about this event)

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Buddy Holly

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“La Bamba” singer, youngest to die on the flight with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper

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Ritchie Valens

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“Chantilly Lace” (oh baby that’s a-what I like) singer, died on a flight with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens

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The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson)

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20th Black composer, known as “Father of the Blues”, “Saint Louis Blues” song, wrote songs on Beale Street in Memphis

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W.C. Handy

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one of the leading opera houses in the world, in Milan

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La Scala (lah skah-luh)

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19th German Romantic composer, his wife Clara was also an excellent pianist, “The Spring Symphony” (his first symphony) dealt with his wedding

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Robert Schumann

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19th/20th American bandmaster, called the “March King” he wrote marches such as “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (national march of the USA), “Semper Fidelis” (Marine corp motto and march), and “The Washington Post” (written for the newspaper), “The Liberty Bell” (Monty Python’s Flying Circus theme ), marching tuba named after him

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John Philip Sousa

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19th Austrial composer, called the “Waltz King”, most famous composer of Viennese waltzes, “The Blue Danube”, “Tales from the Vienna Woods”

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Johann Strauss the Younger

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19th/20th German Romantic composer and conductor, best known for the operas “Der Rosenkavalier” (The Cavalier of the Rose) and “Salome”, and “Thus Spake Zarathustra” (2001: A Space Odyssey) orchestral work inspired by Nietzsche

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Richard Strauss

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20th Russian composer, known for his ballets “The Rite of Spring” (caused a riot), “The Firebird” (his first project - awesome ending called “Infernal Dance”), and “Petrushka”

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Igor Stravinsky

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ballet the title character is in love with a puppet, clown puppet gets his heart broken, dies, and becomes a ghost

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Petrushka

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ballet where Prince Ivan falls in love with an enchanged Tsarevna in this ballet about a magical bird, a magic feather helps save his life

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The Firebird

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ballet where a maiden is chosen for a sacrifice, caused a riot when introduced in 1913 in Paris

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The Rite of Spring

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what instruments in a string quartet

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2 violins, a viola, and a cello

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U.S. composer who wrote “geographical” suites about places such as the Hudson River & Niagra Falls, “The Grand Canyon Suite”

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Ferde Grofe

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ballet in which a princess Odette is turned into a swan (becomes the Swan Queen) by an evil sorcerer’s curse, prince Siegfried fights for her love, title body of water was formed by the tears of Odette’s grieving mother, ends with them jumping into the lake and dying together and going up to heaven

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Swan Lake

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Prince Siegfried love Odette, Siegfried is tricked into wanting to marry Odile (the sorcerer’s daughter)

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Swan Lake

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Famous Russian prima ballerina known for her solo role in “Dying Swan”

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Anna Pavlova

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19th Russian composer, “Symphonie Pathetique” (died just after), “1812 Overture” (tells the story of Napoleon’s retreat from Russia in 1812), and 3 ballets “The Nutcracker”, “Swan Lake”, and “Sleeping Beauty”

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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19th/20th Russian Romantic composer, piano is featured prominently in his work, “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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20th/20th Italian conductor, lived mostly in the US, directed NBC Symphony Orchestra

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Arturo Toscanini

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19th Italian composer, master of Italian grand opera, “Aida”, “Rigoletto”, “Il Trovatore”, “Nabucco”, “Falstaff”, and “La Traviata”

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Giuseppe Verdi

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“La donna e mobile” (means “the woman is fickle”) from Rigoletto, “Libiamo ne lieti calici” (The Drinking Song) from La traviata, “Grand March” from Aida (trumpet), “Coro di zingari” (Anvil Chorus) from Il trovatore, are all SUPER famous opera songs

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Opera where Violetta Valery is a “fallen woman” (name of the title) who has consumption

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La Traviata

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opera about a toreador (bullfighter) who wins the heart of a tempestuous gypsy girl who works in a cigarette factory, she leaves soldier Don Jose for the bullfighter but gets stabbed to death outside a bullring

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Carmen

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opera where the Queen of the Night asks Tamino to rescue her child and he is given a musical instrument which subdues wild animals when played

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Magic Flute

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comedic opera (opera buffa) where Figaro’s name is repeated many times in “Largo al factotum”, Dr. Bartolo keeps beautiful Rosina under lock and key but Figaro saves her

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The Barber of Seville

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comedic opera (opera buffa) where Count Almaviva attempts to thwart this title’s marriage between ___ (the Count’s valet (servant)) and Susanna, continues the plot of “The Barber of Seville”, Overture is very famous and often played separately

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The Marriage of Figaro

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19th Italian composer, nicknamed “The Italian Mozart”, was the most popular opera composer in history at his retirement in 1829, “William Tell” (his last opera at only age 37, also used as theme to The Lone Ranger), “The Barber of Seville”, “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella)

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Gioachino Rossini

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opera about an archer with a very famous overture, he’s a Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austria’s domination of the country, he is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy’s head

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William Tell

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opera about the promiscuous Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester ___, and ___’s beatuiful daughter Gilda, a curse is placed on both Duke and ___ by a courtier (advisor) whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with ___’s encouragement, Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father

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Rigoletto

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opera buffa (with some dramatic parts) based on the legends of Don Juan, a seducer of women including Donna Elvira, he kills a man and is dragged down to hell

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Don Giovanni

112
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18th century Italian composer known for his concertos, influenced several Baroque composers notably Bach, “The Four Seasons” (Spring is the most famous), known as the “Red Priest” due to his red hair and clerical rank, among the first to compose major works for the violin

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Antonio Vivaldi

113
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19th German composer known for his operas, many which dramatize myths and legends, “The Ring of the Nibelung” series, “Tristan und Isolde”, “Lohengrin”, “Parsifal” (his last work), “The Flying Dutchman”

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Richard Wagner

114
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Opera in which a knight arrives in a swan boat, knight tells Elsa he’ll marry her as long as she never asks his identity, “Bridal Chorus” (Here Comes the Bride)

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Lohengrin

115
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opera in which the knight Percival succeeds in finding the holy grail, title means “pure fool”, Lohengrin was this title guy’s son

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Parsifal

116
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opera about a ghost ship that has to continually sail around the Cape of Good Hope and can never reach land, if the title sailor can find a girl who will love him forever the spell will be broken

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The Flying Dutchman

117
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Austrian Romantic composer, “Unfinished Symphony” (No. 8 in B Minor), “The Trout” quintet, “Ave Maria”, wrote more than 600 lieder (songs)

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Franz Schubert

118
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19th Russian composer, “Boris Godunov”, “Night on Bald Mountain” (in Fantasia), “Pictures at an Exhibition”

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Modest Mussorgsky

119
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19th/20th English composer, “Enigma Variations”, “Pomp and Circumstance Marches” (graduation song)

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Edward Elgar

120
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19th/20th English composer, “Tha Planets” (7 parts, doesn’t include Earth and Pluto not yet discovered)

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Gustav Holst

121
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20th Italian-American composer who wrote the classic Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”

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Gian Carlo Menotti

122
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20th German composer who wrote “The Threepenny Opera” which included the ballad “Mack the Knife” (made popular by Bobby Darin, ends with “Magie-s back in town!))

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Kurt Weill

123
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opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Canio the head clown catches Silvio with his wife Nedda, but he runs away, then he has to act out a play as a clown “while his heart is breaking”, he stabs his wife and Silvio in the play and announces that the comedy is ended

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Pagliacci

124
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19th/20th Italian opera composer, “Pagliacci”

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Ruggero Leoncavallo

125
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20th German playwright of “The Threepenny Opera”

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Bertolt Brecht

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