4TH QTR: Vocal Music of The Romantic Period

Question 1

What is the Romantic Period?

Answer 1

It is an era where composers take inspirations from literature works or sceneries and singers performing in greater range of tone color, dynamics and pitch.

Question 2

In this era, Opera became an important source of musical expressions and the birth of Opera houses came.

Answer 2

Romantic Period

Question 3

Who wrote the unfinished symphony?

Answer 3

Franz Peter Schubert

Question 4

What is the proper name of Franz Peter Schubert’s songs?

Answer 4

Lieder: A German word for song.

Question 5

This composer focused in heavy themes of Realism.

Answer 5

Giacomo Puccini

Question 6

What does Giuseppe Verdi’s opera end with?

Answer 6

“All the world’s a joke” (Falstaff)

Question 7

This composer was inspired by Ludwig Van Beethoven and advocates for “music drama.” The expressiveness of his works are aided by the use of “leitmotifs.”

Answer 7

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Question 8

His most famous opera is “Carmen” and he focused on deep or heavy themes.

Answer 8

Georges Bizet

Question 9

The texts of an opera

Answer 9

Libretto

Question 10

The book that the composer and librettist put together

Answer 10

Score

Question 11

What is Aria

Answer 11

Determines whether the opera will be successful or not since the public will remember the Aria best when leaving the opera house. (Dialogue)

Question 11

What is Recitative?

Answer 11

Dialogue of an Opera

Question 12

What is Acts

Answer 12

It is the main division of an Opera

Question 13

It is the setting or place of an Opera?

Answer 13

Scene

Question 14

What else are the other components?

Answer 14

Duet, trio, and other small ensemble
Chorus
Orchestra

Question 15

What are the voice classifications for male?

Answer 15

Tenor
Baritone
Bass

Question 16

What are the voice classifications for female?

Answer 16

Soprano
Mezzo Soprano
Contralto

Question 17

What is A Capella?

Answer 17

one or more singers performing w/o instrumental accompaniment

Question 18

What is Cantabille?

Answer 18

A singing style

Question 19

What is Capo?

Answer 19

Head, the beginning

Question 20

What is Coda?

Answer 20

Closing section appended to a movement or song

Question 21

What is Dolce?

Answer 21

Sweetly

Question 22

What is falsetto?

Answer 22

A weaker and more airy voice

Question 23

What is Glissando?

Answer 23

Sliding quickly between notes

Question 24

What is Passagio?

Answer 24

Parts of singing voice where register transition occur

Question 25

What is Rubato?

Answer 25

Slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist

Question 26

What is Tessitura?

Answer 26

Most comfortable singing range of a singer

Question 27

What is Vibrato?

Answer 27

Rapidly repeated slight pitch variation during a sustained note

Question 28

What is Falstaff all about?

Answer 28

The story takes place in Windsor, England, at the end of the 14th century. It centers around the lazy knight, Sir John Falstaff, who devises a wild plan to court two wealthy, married women. The women catch on to Falstaff’s plan and decide to teach the portly knight a lesson.

Question 29

What is Carmen all about?

Answer 29

It tells the story of a hopeless soldier, Don José, who is seduced by Carmen, a fiery gypsy woman with an appetite for smuggling. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart and turning his back on his military career, the opera follows José in his pursuit of Carmen’s attention. Despite his efforts and desperation, Don José’s quest for love doesn’t end quite how he’d hoped…

Question 30

The use of tones that do not normally belong in the diatonic scale of a piece of music.

Answer 30

Chromaticism

Question 31

A repeating melodic phrase in music that is used to represent a character, setting, emotion, or theme.

Answer 31

Leitmotifs