Mystery Score #2: Scores Flashcards
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Strauss, Don Quixote (NAWM 158)
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- Symphonic poem
- Based on Miguel de Cervantes
- Theme and variations
- Don Quixote theme
- Sancha Panza theme (viola)
- Episodes: fighting giants (windmills), fighting an army (sheep)
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Brahms, Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 34, mvt. 1 (NAWM 156)
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- Developing variation
- Ex.
- Opening motive – 16th note diminution spins out throughout the movement
- Building a cohesive movement out of one melodic idea
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Brahms, Symphony No. 4, mvt. 4 (NAWM 155)
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- Riffs off historical models
- Mvt. 4 has Baroque style Chaconne
- Bassline adapted from Bach cantata
- Parallels with Eroica
- Use of variations
- Bassline theme presented in different registers
- Arranges variations in quasi-sonata form
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Puccini, Madama Butterfly (NAWM 151)
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- Pinkerton and butterfly
- Mixes 5 different styles
- Puccini’s normative style
- Hybrid – westernized Japanese style
- Traditional Japanese style
- Deliberately simple “official” style
- Brief nod to American music with Star Spangle Banner
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Verdi, La traviata, excerpts (NAWM 150 a–e)
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- Full example of scena ed aria
- Accompanied recitative
- Tempo d’attacco – characters in dialoque
- Cantabile – sentimental expression of hope
- Tempo di mezzo – action (Violetta faints)
- Cabaletta – the reality of the situation hits them
6
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Wagner, Die Walküre
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1
7
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Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, excerpts (NAWM 149 a and b)
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- Gesamtkunstwerk
- Based on 13th century romance (nationalism)
- Prelude introduces leitmotifs
- VERY slow pacing, unlike Rossini
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Weber, Der Freischütz, excerpts (NAWM 148 a–c)
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- Folk legend
- Juxtaposes natural and supernatural
- Conflict between good vs. evil
- Vocal elements
- Singspiel (speaking and singing, used as signs of the character’s status)
- Folk song like melodies – simple, strophic, diatonic melodies
- Orchestral techniques
- Melodrama – orchestra’s dramatic role
- Harmony supports drama (ex. Samiel (the Devil) is accompanied by the tritone)
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Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots, excerpts (NAWM 147 a–d)
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- Historical drama – struggle for religious freedom
- French Grand Opera
- Similar to trajedie lyrique
- LOTS of people onstage (supernumeraries)
- Grand choruses (simple melodies and syllabic texts)
10
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Bellini, Norma, excerpt (NAWM 146)
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- Cantabile
- ABA Form
- Coloratura
- Italian Opera
- Textbook example of bel canto style
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Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia, excerpt (NAWM 145)
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- Premiered in Naples
- Same story set by Paisiello
- Rapid patter singing style
- Lots of ensembles
- Cantabile and cabaletta complex (basically scena ed aria without the tempo di mezzo)
- Cavatina – entrance aria
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Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, mvt. 1 (NAWM 139)
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- 3 movements played without pause
- Skips orchestral exposition
- Cadenza is moved to right before recap (unlike Mozart concertos)
- Mixed lyrical and virtuosic style
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Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, mvt. 5: The Witches Sabbath (NAWM 138) Mvts. 1–4 (On Spotify)
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- FORM: Program Symphony, distributed to the audience
- FORM: Fast finale (5 movements)
- COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES
- Diminished 7th chord and tritones associated with the diabolical
- Flutters in strings = ghosts
- NOTABLE ITEMS
- Idée fixe (obsession)
- Dies irae (Gregorian Chant sequence sung during the Mass of the Dead)
- Col legno (Playing strings with wood of the bow)
14
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Clara Schumann, Piano Trio in G Minor, mvt. 3 (NAWM 142)
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- Trio for violin, cello, and piano
- Conversation between the instruments
- 4 movements – Sonata form, scherzo, slow ABA, sonata form
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Das Jahr: December (NAWM 133)
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- GENRE:
- Cycle of Character Pieces
- FORM:
- No Standard Form
- COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES:
- Flurry & Snowstorm (Sixteenth notes with pedal)
- Hymn tune – Von Himmel Hoch
- Christmas hymn - Lutheran
16
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Niccolò Paganini, Caprice No. 24 (On Spotify)
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1
17
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Franz Liszt, Trois études de concert: No. 3, Un Sospiro (NAWM 136)
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- Concert etude
- Character piece
- Technically challenging – broken chords, parallel 6ths, rolled octaves, melody buried in texture
- Melding of three forms: variations, enlarged ternary, sonata form
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Chopin, Mazurka in B-flat Major (NAWM 134)
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- FORM:
- AA ||: BA :||: CA :||
- Polish folk dance
- ¾ with emphasis on beat 2
- Dotted figures
- Instrumental melody
- Imitates string instruments with slurs
- Incorporates folk elements (trills, grace notes, large leaps, drone 5ths)
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Chopin, Nocturne in D-flat Major (NAWM 135)
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- Bel canto quality
- Treble dominated
- Consonant accompaniments
- Modified strophic
- Virtuosic elements (parallel 6ths, wide leaps, cadenza-like passages)
21
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Schubert, Winterreise, No. 5, Der Lindenbaum (NAWM 129)
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- GENRE
- Song Cycle, Performed without pause to complete story
- FORM NAME
- Modified Strophic form AA’BA
- COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES
- Fluttering triplet figuration (breezes and wind)
- Folklike melody
- NOTABLE ITEMS
- Poetry and music enhance its meaning
22
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Schubert, Der Erlkönig (On Spotify)
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- FORM: Through Composed
- Text by Goethe
- Not the first setting, but the most popular one by far
- Piano plays it’s own role
- Range of the vocalist important to the character (little boy, father, Death)
23
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Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade (NAWM 128)
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- German Lied
- Text by Goethe
- Modified strophic form
- Piano playing its own character
- Spinning wheel is representing Gretchens mental state (left hand)
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Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, mvt 1 (NAWM 126)
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- Eroica Symphony, Heroic (middle) period
- Originally dedicated to Napoleon, then changed after he turned psycho
- Sonata form
- Not widely accepted until MUCH later
- Too modern, VERY long, very different overall
- Groundbreaking symphony
- Very large orchestra
- Not treble dominated like earlier music
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Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C Minor (NAWM 125)
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- Piano sonata
- Sonata form with slow introduction
- Subtitle both romantic and classical. Meant to make it more marketable by making it more relatable (classical), invokes meaning behind the piece (Pathos is suffering, pain, and grief) (romantic)
