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Who wrote Sumer is Icmen?
Anon
Define CHIPTUNE in video game msic
Sound chips or short music segments that repeat over and over as background to the early video game music
Beethoven only opera?
Fidelio
Woodwind instruments got their name because?
Originally made of wood
Highest woodwind instrument in the orchestra?
Piccolo
Video game performers?
Shimomura, Zimmer, soule *
Double reed instruments
Oboe, English horn, bassoon
What instrument not commonly used by modern composer?
Crumhorn
What is classified as a so-called sad chord?
Minor
Composition almost always ends in?
Tonic chord
Medieval music consisting of Gregorian chant and one or more melodic line
Organum
Video game composer that writes for both video games and movies
Hans Zimmer
Ternary form is characterized by what lettering group?
ABA
What were church modes?
Basic scale of western music during Middle Ages
Who was responsible for reinstating Bach to the forefront of classical music after it had been forgot after his death (1750)?
Felix Mendelssohn
What was Haydn considered from his contract of employment?
Skilled servant
Baroque term oratorio
Based on bible events and a story is told performing with a voice and orchestra. There is no set or costumes.MAIN REASON IT IS AN ORATORIO NOT AN OPERA
What voice category can sing very high and execute rapid scales and trills?
Coloratura soprano
Two giants of Baroque composition?
George Handel and J.S. Bach
Main keyboard instruments of baroque period
Organ and harpsichord
The use that gives Barogue music its most characteristic feature?
Basso continuo
Beethoven musical heir of Haydn and Mozart, bridged what periods?
Classical and romantic
Most famous women video game composer?
Yoko Shimomura
Texture of Gregorian chant?
Monophonic
The first movement of classical period symphony is often in what form?
Sonata allegro
Performing choral music without instrumental accompaniment
Cappella
What are the first and third sections of sonata form?
Exposition and recapitulation *
What instrument is played in the recapitulation of Beethoven symphony #5 1st movement
Oboe
Songs Mozart wrote
Don Giovanni, The magic flute, the marriage of Figaro
Singer with low range taking authoritarian roles
Basso profundo
Composer of opera Oreo
Claudio Monterverdi
A vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuation of speech
Recitative
Bach was respected/recognized as what of his day
Organist
What Baroque form did back not create a masterpiece in?
Opera
Chorale
A Lutheran congregational hymn tune
In use of aria, duet and recitative, Bach cantatas closely resembled
Operas
Oratorio
Large scale composition for chorus, vocal,soloists and orchestra, usually set to narrative biblical text
Messiah by Handel is an example of what type of music
Oratorio
How many notes in a pentatonic scale?
5
Masters of classical period
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven
Characteristics of classical period
Classical composition has wealth of rhythmic patterns, fluctuate in mood, melodies are tuneful and easy to remember.
Father of symphony
Haydn
First 4 note of Beethoven’s 5th symphony signified
Morse code for V for victory
Typical orchestra of classical period consisted of
Strings, pairs of woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and timpani
Sonata form
Frequently used as the form for the first movement of multi-movement work
Haydn two important types of compositions
String quartets
Sonata-form movement often followed by concluding section known as
Coda
Bridge
Traditional passage that smoothly connects one section to another
A rondo is a musical form described as having
A reoccurring theme
Basso continuo
A Bass part together with numbers (figures) specifying the chords to be played above it, characteristic of the baroque
The character of the minuet is best describe as
Brisk and lively
Operas composed by Mozart
Don Giovanni, cosi fan tutte, marriage of figaro
Trouser role in opera
A girl in guys clothing that could sing high notes that males could not
Program music
Instrumental music associated with a story poem, idea or scene popular during romantic period
Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony is unified by the recurrence of an idée fixe known as?
The beloved
Compose that did not specifically write for movies
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Through composed
Form when Composer writes new music for each stanza of a poem
Who composed winterreise?
Franz Schubert
Chopin expressed His love of native Poland by composing what?
Polonaises and muzurkas
Strophic form
When music is repeated for each stanza of a poem
Rubato
Slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music
Nationalism
Deliberate intent to draw creative inspiration from the composers own homeland
Bedrich smetana composed a symphonic poem depicting Bohemia’s main river. What is the name of the river (and the composition)
The Moldau
Art song is a musical composition composed for what combination of performers?
Voice and piano
Clara Schumann
Did some composing but considered herself primary a performer
Etudes
A study piece designed to help performs master chain technical difficulties
Who wrote the music for Star Wars?
John Williams
Symphonic poem
One movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the Fantastic Symphony
DIES IRAE
4th movement of the Fantastic Symphony depicts
March of the scaffold
Who wrote the librettos to Richard Wagner’s the Ring of the Nibelung
Richard Wagner
Why does Wagner call his works music dramas instead of operas?
Continuous musical flow within each act, no breaks where applause can interrupt, the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of German text
Wagner spins orchestral web out of recurrent musical themes called
Leit motifs
What form did Johannesburg brahms not write?
Opera
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is an?
Overturn-fantasy
Valhalla in Richards Wagner’s opera Die Walkure is
The castle of the gods
Richard Wagner had an opera house with his own design. Where was this built?
Bayreuth Bavaria
Brahms works through personal style arerrooted in music of
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Erich Korngold wrote what kinda music?
Movies music, operas, ballets, and chamber
What were Franz Schubert gatherings called?
Schubertiads
Who was Clara and Robert Schumann close with?
Johannesburg Brahms
How long are Schubert’s song numbers
600
Composer that wrote German Requiem and dedicated it to his mother and Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
