Chapters 47-54 Flashcards

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Symphony No. 40 in G Minor

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By Mozart

Performed in Vienna

Longer version of “Little” G minor Symphony

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“Prague” Symphony

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By Mozart

Performed in Prague

Dense texture

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“Jupiter” Symphony

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By Mozart

More bright and in C major

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“Haydn” Quartets

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By Mozart

Written in Vienna

Set of six quartets

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“Dissonance” Quartet

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By Mozart

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Turkish music

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Mozart imitates the sounds of Turkish music.

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Concerto-sonata form

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A form for the first movement of Mozart’s concertos.

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Cadenza

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An introduction before the ritornello (first theme) in Mozart’s concerto-sonata form

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Singspiel

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Mozart wrote five Singspiel’s (German comic opera)

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Lorenzo da Ponte

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Wrote librettos for Mozart

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Trouser role

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Sung by a women dressed as a man

Like the boy in Mozart’s Figaro

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Ensemble finale

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Characters collectively bring down the curtain with a finale performance

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Requiem Mass and Dies irae

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Roman Catholic Church funeral music

Chant meaning Day of wrath

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Ferdinand Waldstein

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Count who supported Beethoven

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“Little” G-minor Symphony

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By Mozart

Uses Sturm und Drang (agitated style)

Opening of Amadeus

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WoO numbers

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Work without opus number

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17
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French Revolution

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Monarch to republic in 1789

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Improvisations

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Beethoven’s Vienna improvisations on piano

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Carl Czerny

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Beethoven’s student in Vienna

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Fantasia

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Freedom of form

Like Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven

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Sonata-rondo form

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Mozart uses this form

ABAC

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Episodes

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In rondo form and also sonata-rondo form

Series of contrasting themes

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Heiligenstadt Testament

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Beethoven’s will and letter to the world about his heartache over losing his hearing

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Symphonie concertante

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Concerto with multiple soloists

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Program music
Instrumental music that expresses nonmusical ideas
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Melodrama
Opera associated with France
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Cabaletta
Second part of aria that is fast, virtuosic and its main melody is heard twice
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"Immortal Beloved"
What Beethoven called his true love He wrote a letter to her that was never sent and was never able to be with her
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Congress of Vienna
Francis I the king of Austria invited leaders from all of Europe to celebrate the victory of the French emperor abdicating his throne
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Bagatelle
Small pieces for piano Beethoven wrote two, Opus 119 and 126
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"Cavatina" movement
Fifth movement of Beethoven's String quartet in B flat major. Contains intense lyricism
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Grosse Fugue (great fugue)
By Beethoven Written in his final period where he was trying to revive the contrapuntal style
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Archduke Rudolph
Generous patron of Beethoven's Missa solemnis was written for him
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Schubertiads
Private gatherings for Schubert to have his newest pieces performed
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Lied/Lieder
German word for songs Schubert composed these
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Song Cycles
Groups of songs that belong together in poetry and music
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Character pieces
Short pieces that establish a definite mood
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Strophic form
Same melody different lyrics (stanzas)
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Through-composed form
Not following any simple repetitive or symmetrical musical plan
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Johann Wolfgnag von Goethe
German writer of poetry
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Ballad
Poem in stanzas that tells a story and rises quickly to a dramatic climax Like Schubert's "Erlkönig"
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Scena
Operatic type of song that is not symmetrical and has contrasting sections
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Grand opera
Long length, chorus and ballet and a lot of scenic effects
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer of grand opera (1791-1864)
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Concert overtures
Shorter works Berlioz wrote these
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Progronnatic Symphony
A multi-movement symphonic work about a none musical idea
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Idée fixe
Berlioz's name for a recurrent melody
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Cyclicism
Recurrence of a theme in several movements of the same piece
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George Sand
Mistress of Chopin This was her pen name
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Mazurka
Chopin liked to write these polish dances
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Nocturne
Chopin wrote 21 Each has a special character
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Etude
Studies by Chopin
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Rubato
Freedom in tempo for expression purposes
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Hugo Riemann
Theorist Developed functional harmony
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Functional harmony
Chord structures having one of three function Tonic, dominant, subdominant
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Complete works
Publishing company published works by a great composer from the past (They did one of J.S. Bach)
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Bartholdy
Mendelssohn's Christian name
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Bach Revival
Bach's music was published and studied
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Canon
Body of musical work | Mendelssohn
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Florestan and Eusebius
Shumann's alter egos that were dreamy sides of his personality