Music, Operas, Plays Flashcards
Who composed Carmen
Bizet
What did Verdi compose (3 things)
Rigoletto; Aida; La Traviata
What did Puccini compose (4 things)
La Boheme; Madame Butterfly; Turandot; Tosca
What did Rossini compose (2 things)
The Barber of Seville; William Tell
What did Mussorgsky compose (2 things)
Boris Godunov; Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky’s 5 works
The Rite of Spring; Firebird ballet; Petrushka ballet; Scherzo fantastique (Fireworks); Oedipus Rex
Who composed Fidelio
Beethoven
What did Mozart compose (3 things)
Don Giovanni; The Marriage of Figaro; Cosi Fan Tutte
Who composed The Planets
Holst
name 4 of wagner’s works
Ring of the Nibelungen cycle; siegfried; the flying dutchman; Lohengrin
Who composed The Messiah
Handel
Who composed the Choral Symphony No 9
Also ode to joy; Beethoven
Copland’s 2 works
Fanfare for the Common Man, and Appalachian Spring Ballet
Who composed The Tales of Hoffmann
Offenbach
What did Debussy compose (2 things)
Afternoon of a Faun; La Mer
What did Gershwin compose (4 things)
Porgy & Bess; Rhapsody in Blue; Swanee; An American in Paris
name of unfinished symphony that schubert wrote
No. 8 in B Minor
Who composed the Eroica Symphony No 3 in E-flat major?
Beethoven
Who composed Peer Gynt?
Grieg
Synopsis of Madame Butterfly & 2 main characters
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
Sophocles 2 plays
Oedipus the king; Antigone
who was the greek father of tragedy, and what did he write
Aeschylus; wrote the Oresteia Trilogy
O’Neill’s 3 biggest play titles
The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Emperor Jones
Who wrote waiting for godot
beckett
Euripides 2 most famous plays
Madea; Bacchae
Henrik Ibsen 3 plays
A Doll’s House; Hedda Gabler; The Wild Duck
Chekhov’s 4 most famous plays
The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Three Sisters; and Uncle Vanya.
Shakespeare’s lesser-known play
antony & cleopatra
who wrote the surprise symphony??
Haydn oml
composer of Brandenburg concertos
Bach
who wrote symphony #41, the Jupiter symphony
Mozart
who wrote the french anthem, and what is it called
de Lisle; La Marseilles
who wrote the blue danube
strauss
who wrote that dang dixie song that used to be your dang lullaby, and what was it used for
Emmet; it was the confederate anthem
who wrote oh susanna
Foster
who wrote the battle hymn of the republic, and what is its telling verses
Howe; it’s the “glory, glory halleluuuuujahhhh” song that mrs cook thinks we’re idiots for not knowing lmao
who wrote America, the Beautiful
Bates
who wrote the 1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky
3 of Prokofiev’s musical numbers
Romeo & Juliet; Peter and the Wolf; The Love for Three Oranges
who wrote Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Dvorak
Name 2 of Elgar’s compositions
Pomp & circumstance, enigma variations
rodgers & Hammerstein 5 plays
Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Sound of Music, The King & I, Cinderella
who wrote West Side Story
Bernstein & Sondheim
who wrote the Well-Tempered Klavier
bach
gilbert & sullivan 3 plays
the pirates of penzance; HMS pinafore; The Gondoliers (a “savoy,” comic opera)
Britten’s 3 works
Turn of the screw; that one kid’s orchestra book; and Death in Venice
who wrote bolero
ravel
WHO WROTE 4’33’’ FOR PIANO
CAGE
who wrote the piano concerto No 2 & 3, characterized by having such a gigantic freaking hand span to reach his notes
rachmaninoff
who wrote symphony no 5 in C minor
beethoven (remember mama’s shirt, “this is my fifth”)
who wrote toccata & fugue in D minor, that organ song that is on the halloween playlists
Bach
who wrote canon in D
pachelbel
who wrote Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
Orff
who wrote the bartered bride
smetana
who wrote the flight of the bumblebee piece
korsakov
Name 2 of schumann’s pieces
Traumerei; spring symphony
name this instrument, for which Mozart wrote variations on the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” as well as a “Rondo Alla Turca.
pianofortes
who wrote the play “a raisin in the sun”
Hansberry
who wrote Pygmalion/My Fair Lady
Shaw
who composed the 6th pastoral symphony
beethoven
who wrote the 6th pathetique symphony
tchaikovsky
who wrote the Hungarian rhapsody
Liszt
who composed the chorales
bach
name 2 of mahler’s pieces
the song of the earth; symphony of a thousand
name 2 of Brahms’s pieces
A German Requiem; Lullabies
name this Italian playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author
pirandello
who wrote the wedding march
Mendelssohn
who wrote duke bluebeard’s castle
bartok
where is bartok from
hungary
where is liszt from
Austria-Hungary (Hungary)
who wrote fur elise you damn idiot
BEETHOVEN not bach tf
who wrote the 7th leningrad symphony
shostakovich
what did shostakovich write
the 7th leningrad symphony
Name 1 work(s) by Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Who wrote Carnival of Animals?
Saint-Saens
Who wrote the star-spangled banner?
Key
who wrote Salome (the opera)?
Strauss
who wrote amazing grace?
Newton
webber wrote the music to go with which dude’s lyrics
rice
who is the march king
sousa
