Module 12

Question 1

Niccolo Paganini

Answer 1

-Incredible violin virtuoso

Question 2

Virtuoso

Answer 2

• A person with extraordinary technical and musical abilities
• A technical and artistic master of a musical instrument

Question 3

Giachino Rossini

Answer 3

- Opera composer 
~Opera Buffa 
-Best known works 
~The Barber of Seville 
~The overture to William Tell

Question 4

Franz Schubert

Answer 4

• Singer, string player, pianist

Question 5

Die Neue Zeitschritf fur Musik

Answer 5

• Academic journal for new music

Question 6

Robert Schumann

Answer 6

• Carnival
  ~well-known 1835 work
  ~Consists on 21 short piano pieces

Question 7

Liederjahr

Answer 7

-Year of songs

~Schumann wrote 100 lieders for his wife Clara

Question 8

Richard Wagner

Answer 8

• Focused mostly on opera compositions
  -The Ring of the Nibelung
  ~The opera cycle takes about 15 hours to perform and follows the story of a magical ring and the gods, mortals, and mythical beings whose fates are influenced by the rings power

Question 9

Gesamtkunstwerk

Answer 9

-Synthesizes poetry, scenery, costumes, music and acting to create a unified work where drama is the main focus

Question 10

Bayreth Festspielhaus

Answer 10

-A special opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany

~Minimize distraction and help the audience focus on the action occurring onstage

Question 11

Leitmotif

Answer 11

-Theme music for characters, objects, places, or emotions

~Transform and change as the drama unfolds

Question 12

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Answer 12

• Opera compositions
  ~Eugene Onegin
  -Rich ballet music
  ~’Swan lake,’ ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and ‘The Nutcracker’
  -Other popular music
  ~1812 Overture and Love theme from Romeo and Juliet

Question 13

Frederic Chopin

Answer 13

• He never identified as French but in the polish traditions
  -He composed music in polonaises and mazurkas styles of dances in Poland
  -Types of music compositions
  ~Character pieces
  ~Preludes
  ~Marches
  ~Night music
  ~Nocturnes

Question 14

Salons

Answer 14

• Small, private concerts in wealthy patrons homes

Question 15

Modest Mussorgsky

Answer 15

-A member of Kuchka
-Most known pieces
~Night on Bald Mountain
~Boris Godunov
~Pictures at an Exhibition
~The Great Gate of Kiev

Question 16

Kuchka

Answer 16

-Mighty Handful

~Also known as the Russian Five