songs Flashcards
String Quartet No. 4 in B-flat, op. 3 no. 1, ii. Minuetto
Maddalena Laura Sirmen
Her string quartets are 2 movements instead of 4 movements
4 instrument string quartet
3/4
Minuet is baroque era dance that survives into classical period
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67, i. Allegro con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven
Exposition, development, recapitulation
Modulates to C major (parallel major of tonic key)
Motive of bam bam bam baaaam, everything in first movement based off this pattern
Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor, op. 27 no. 2 (Moonlight), i. Adagio sostenuto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata form in C sharp minor
Just piano playing
Piano Trio in G Minor, op. 17, i. Allegro moderato
Clara Schumann
Piano trio = piano, violin, and cello
Violin playing main part, cello and piano playing alternative parts
Frauenliebe und –leben, i. „Seit ich ihn gesehen“ & viii. „Nun hast du
mir den ersten Schmerz getan“
Robert Schumann
“A Woman’s Love and Life”
Genre = a cycle of art songs
Ensemble = soprano and piano
Describes the course of a women’s love for her man from her point of view, from their first meeting, to her husband’s death
1st movement
form = strophic
2nd movement
form = through-composed
recitative
“fictive persona”
No beat
piano postlude
Notturno (Nocturne) in G Minor
Fanny Hensel
Genre = character piece
Die Walküre, Act III, excerpt from Finale
Richard Wagner
From The Ring Cycle
Madama Butterfly, Act II, „Un bel di, vedremo”
Giacomo Puccini
Exoticism
Soprano aria
Italian libretto
ABA format
Style: verismo opera (very realistic)
Nonet in E-flat, op. 38, iii. Scherzo & vi. Adagio – Allegro (2 movements)
Louise Farrenc
absolute music
9 instruments
Scherzo: offbeats, funky
3/4
Adagio-Allegro: 4/4
Slavonic Dances, op. 46, i. Furiant and ii. Dumka (2 movements)
Antonín Dvořák
genre = dance suites / orchestral suite
a series of 16 orchestral pieces published as two eight-movement orchestral
suites (genre)
originally created for piano four hands the two suites were orchestrated
Dance #1 Furiant
Presto
6/8 meter
C major
major tonal scale
Dance #2 Dumka
E minor
more lyrical 4/4
minor tonal scale
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95, From the New World, ii. Largo
Antonín Dvořák
2nd movement Largo
Symphony
Oboe melody (“exotic” instrument sound)
main melody inspired by the plantation songs common to black-face minstrelsy
