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1
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Define the musical characteristics of the Folk Spiritual.

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Responsorial Structure, call and response.
Gapped scales
Heterophonic texture
Slides
Interjections
Syncopations
Text: Biblical stories, personal emotional experiences, nature.

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2
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Describe Burleigh’s career, including works he composed and arranged.

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Career: composer, editor, and singer.
Works: Art song arrangements of spirituals
Swing Low Sweet Chariot

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3
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Define Concert Spirituals

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Black melodies mixed with European harmonies.

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4
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Describe Hensel’s life and the issues that surrounded her. becoming a professional composer.

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Came from a wealthy family who saw it as improper for a woman of high nobility to work, so she was not allowed to by her family.

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5
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Describe the text-music relationships in Hensel’s “Bitte”, including harmonies.

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“Take this world away from me” with an ascending melody.
G to Gb step on the word solemn.
No authentic cadences in whole piece.

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6
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Describe Tom Wiggin’s accomplishments

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Born blind.
Born into Slavery.
Learned to play piano by ear and began touring at age 8 via his owners management.
Performed at the White House in 1860 celebrating Confederate victory.

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7
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Define Grand Opera

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Everything is big.
Big casts, extravagant scenery and costumes.
Very long (5 acts)
Singing and Dancing

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8
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Define Melodrama

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Spoken word over orchestral accompaniment

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9
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Rossini

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia, “Una voce poco fa”

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10
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Verdi

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La Traviata Act 3 scena and duet

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Wagner

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Tristan und Isolde, Act 1 Scene 5.

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12
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Mussorgsky

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Boris Godunov Coronation Scene

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13
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Barbieri

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El Barberillo de Lavapies nos 9 and 10

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14
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Puccini

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Madama Butterfly excerpt from act 1

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15
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Brahms

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Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34, mvmt. 1

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16
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Strauss

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Don Quixote

17
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Describe how Developing Variations work in the first half of this movement.

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1st theme made of four small motives that he later separates and varies.

18
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Give an example of developing variations in Brahms Piano Quintet op 34 mvmt 1

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Mm. 12 starts with W motive then repeats it and sequences it, while creating the sequence he puts up a semitone G to Ab, now it goes down a semitone that later takes on it’s own life.

19
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Diagram and explain the features of the movements sonata form

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Three Key exposition
1st theme C major
2nd theme E Flat major
closing. G Major

Recap
C Major
A Flat Major
C Major

20
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How many keys are there in the exposition and what are they? How does it differ from the ones used by Mozart?

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3, CM, EbM, GM

A typical sonata form would transition from the Tonic to the Dominant, but this one transitions from CM, to Eb, to GM

21
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Explain the form of Don Quixote and how it differs from standard double theme and variations

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The form of this movement is Double Theme and Variation, but the episodes introduce new music each time & represent one of their adventures. There are fragments of both Don Quixote’s theme and his side-kick Sancho Panza before introducing the new episode

22
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Explain ways the program is depicted in variations 1 and 2 in Don Quixote.

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Variation 1: the story depicts his battle with an old wooden windmill, which is represented in the program by the string s playing on the back of their bow to give the feeling of creaking wood.
Variation 2: the episode depicts sheep in a field.

23
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Describe Mussorgsky’s innovative harmonies in Boris Godunov and how they relate to nationalism in Russia.

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Adds more instruments and increasingly louder dynamics to get to the climax instead of harmonic drive.
Harmonies written because of color and not western harmonic rules.
- Pedal point on C to establish and maintain tonic.
- Ab 7 and D7 chord progression
- The two seventh chords that are a tritone apart which makes it static.
- Both have C in them.
- EM CM AM EM chord progression in brass parts (shared note of E

24
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Who is the Librettist of Boris Godunov?

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Puskin

25
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What is the Libretto of Boris Godunov about and how does it relate to nationalism?

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Libretto is in Russian (vernacular)
Uses real Russian historical events.
About Russian Tsar, Boris Godunov
Using Russian historical events is an example of their invented national style

26
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What are the elements in the Coronation scene that are associated with nationalism and how are they associated with nationalism?

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Bells because they could be heard in Russian churches.
Melody from Russian folk song
association with nationalism: using real historical Russian events and folk songs is part of their self-identified national characteristics.

27
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How is El Barberillo de Lavapies no 9 and 10 related to Spanish politics?

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Meant to allude to political tensions in Spain at the time because it has to due with the reign of King Charles the Third

28
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Define Zarzuela

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Theatrical work w music and story lines, spoken dialogue. W 2 acts

29
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Define the characteristics of a Seguidilla

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Traditional Spanish dance
Triple meter
Major mode
Bright catchy rhythms
Vocal line has phrases ending with melisma’s

30
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Describe the Japanese and Chinese elements of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

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Traditional Japanese & Chinese melodies
Evokes Japanese gagaku orchestra: harp, flute, piccolo, bells.
Whole-tone and pentatonic scales.
Parallel octaves.
Evasion of traditional voice leading

31
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Define Developing Variations

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Creating an entire composition by combining tiny motives that are used to create melodies and accompaniments.
Transposing and changing them throughout piece.

32
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Name the Mighty Five

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Balakirev
Cui
Mussorgsky
Borodin
Rimsky Korsakov

33
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What is a Concert Overture

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One movement orchestral piece normally in sonata form and has some sort of program

34
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What is a Tone Poem

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One movement orchestra works w programs, can be in any form, but usually not in a conventional sonata form.
Program should influence the form of the music.

35
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Define Gesamtkunstwerk

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Gesamt = bringing something altogether
Kunst = art, all art or visual arts
Werk = work, compositions
A work that brings all the arts together, not just beautiful singing

36
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Describe the five parts of an Aria and the composer associated with it

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Orchestral introduction
Scena
Cantabile
Tempo di mezzo
Cabaletta

Rossini

37
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Describe the six parts of a duet and the composer associated with it

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Orchestral introduction
Scene
Tempo d’attacco
Cantabile
Tempo di mezzo
Cabaletta

Verdi

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