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Music, Operas, Plays Flashcards

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Who composed Carmen

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Bizet

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What did Verdi compose (3 things)

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Rigoletto; Aida; La Traviata

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What did Puccini compose (4 things)

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La Boheme; Madame Butterfly; Turandot; Tosca

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What did Rossini compose (2 things)

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The Barber of Seville; William Tell

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What did Mussorgsky compose (2 things)

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Boris Godunov; Pictures at an Exhibition

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Stravinsky’s 5 works

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The Rite of Spring; Firebird ballet; Petrushka ballet; Scherzo fantastique (Fireworks); Oedipus Rex

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Who composed Fidelio

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Beethoven

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What did Mozart compose (3 things)

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Don Giovanni; The Marriage of Figaro; Cosi Fan Tutte

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Who composed The Planets

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Holst

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name 4 of wagner’s works

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Ring of the Nibelungen cycle; siegfried; the flying dutchman; Lohengrin

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Who composed The Messiah

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Handel

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Who composed the Choral Symphony No 9

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Also ode to joy; Beethoven

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Copland’s 2 works

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Fanfare for the Common Man, and Appalachian Spring Ballet

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Who composed The Tales of Hoffmann

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Offenbach

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What did Debussy compose (2 things)

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Afternoon of a Faun; La Mer

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What did Gershwin compose (4 things)

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Porgy & Bess; Rhapsody in Blue; Swanee; An American in Paris

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name of unfinished symphony that schubert wrote

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No. 8 in B Minor

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Who composed the Eroica Symphony No 3 in E-flat major?

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Beethoven

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Who composed Peer Gynt?

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Grieg

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Synopsis of Madame Butterfly & 2 main characters

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Japanese 15 yo Butterfly marries this naval general Pinkerton and he leaves her for 3 yr with a son and comes back with a new wife (!!!) and butterfly disembowels herself over it o.0

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21
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Sophocles 2 plays

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Oedipus the king; Antigone

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who was the greek father of tragedy, and what did he write

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Aeschylus; wrote the Oresteia Trilogy

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O’Neill’s 3 biggest play titles

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The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Emperor Jones

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Who wrote waiting for godot

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beckett

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Euripides 2 most famous plays

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Madea; Bacchae

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Henrik Ibsen 3 plays

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A Doll’s House; Hedda Gabler; The Wild Duck

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Chekhov’s 4 most famous plays

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The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Three Sisters; and Uncle Vanya.

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28
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Shakespeare’s lesser-known play

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antony & cleopatra

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29
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who wrote the surprise symphony??

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Haydn oml

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30
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composer of Brandenburg concertos

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Bach

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31
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who wrote symphony #41, the Jupiter symphony

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Mozart

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32
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who wrote the french anthem, and what is it called

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de Lisle; La Marseilles

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33
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who wrote the blue danube

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strauss

34
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who wrote that dang dixie song that used to be your dang lullaby, and what was it used for

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Emmet; it was the confederate anthem

35
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who wrote oh susanna

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Foster

36
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who wrote the battle hymn of the republic, and what is its telling verses

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Howe; it’s the “glory, glory halleluuuuujahhhh” song that mrs cook thinks we’re idiots for not knowing lmao

37
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who wrote America, the Beautiful

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Bates

38
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who wrote the 1812 Overture

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Tchaikovsky

39
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3 of Prokofiev’s musical numbers

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Romeo & Juliet; Peter and the Wolf; The Love for Three Oranges

40
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who wrote Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

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Dvorak

41
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Name 2 of Elgar’s compositions

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Pomp & circumstance, enigma variations

42
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rodgers & Hammerstein 5 plays

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Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Sound of Music, The King & I, Cinderella

43
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who wrote West Side Story

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Bernstein & Sondheim

44
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who wrote the Well-Tempered Klavier

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bach

45
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gilbert & sullivan 3 plays

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the pirates of penzance; HMS pinafore; The Gondoliers (a “savoy,” comic opera)

46
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Britten’s 3 works

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Turn of the screw; that one kid’s orchestra book; and Death in Venice

47
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who wrote bolero

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ravel

48
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WHO WROTE 4’33’’ FOR PIANO

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CAGE

49
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who wrote the piano concerto No 2 & 3, characterized by having such a gigantic freaking hand span to reach his notes

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rachmaninoff

50
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who wrote symphony no 5 in C minor

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beethoven (remember mama’s shirt, “this is my fifth”)

51
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who wrote toccata & fugue in D minor, that organ song that is on the halloween playlists

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Bach

52
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who wrote canon in D

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pachelbel

53
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who wrote Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

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Orff

54
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who wrote the bartered bride

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smetana

55
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who wrote the flight of the bumblebee piece

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korsakov

56
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Name 2 of schumann’s pieces

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Traumerei; spring symphony

57
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name this instrument, for which Mozart wrote variations on the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” as well as a “Rondo Alla Turca.

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pianofortes

58
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who wrote the play “a raisin in the sun”

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Hansberry

59
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who wrote Pygmalion/My Fair Lady

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Shaw

60
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who composed the 6th pastoral symphony

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beethoven

61
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who wrote the 6th pathetique symphony

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tchaikovsky

62
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who wrote the Hungarian rhapsody

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Liszt

63
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who composed the chorales

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bach

64
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name 2 of mahler’s pieces

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the song of the earth; symphony of a thousand

65
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name 2 of Brahms’s pieces

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A German Requiem; Lullabies

66
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name this Italian playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author

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pirandello

67
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who wrote the wedding march

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Mendelssohn

68
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who wrote duke bluebeard’s castle

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bartok

69
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where is bartok from

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hungary

70
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where is liszt from

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Austria-Hungary (Hungary)

71
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who wrote fur elise you damn idiot

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BEETHOVEN not bach tf

72
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who wrote the 7th leningrad symphony

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shostakovich

73
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what did shostakovich write

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the 7th leningrad symphony

74
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Name 1 work(s) by Berlioz

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Symphonie Fantastique

75
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Who wrote Carnival of Animals?

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Saint-Saens

76
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Who wrote the star-spangled banner?

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Key

77
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who wrote Salome (the opera)?

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Strauss

78
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who wrote amazing grace?

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Newton

79
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webber wrote the music to go with which dude’s lyrics

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rice

80
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who is the march king

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sousa

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