Final Exam Flashcards

(41 cards)

1
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Light instrumental Punic perform between acts at an opera

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Entr acte music

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In this area Carmen sings that love is a rebellious bird that can never be contained and it’s like a gypsy child that has never known the law

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Habenara

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In this aria escamino sings about a dark eye that watches as the bull fighter fights and that love awaits him

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Toreador song

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Give two reasons why Carmen is so controversial when it first came out

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She’s a whore and Carmen died

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Give two words to describe Bernardo and describe how he is related to someone else

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Leader and powerful and he’s Maria’s brother

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Two words to describe Maria and how she’s related to another character

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Passionate and Puerto Rican and Bernardo’s sister

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In the end of the movie Maria says the boys weren’t killed with weapons but with

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Hate

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Two words to describe Escimio and how he is related to other characters

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Popus bull fighter and boyfriend of Carmen

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Speech like style of singing very little accompaniment

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Recitative speech

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Two words to describe tony and how he relates to another character

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Tall handsome and in love with Maria founder of jets

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This menstrualvshow composer wrote Compton races oh susana and my old Kentucky home

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Stephen foster

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12
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This person composed Carmen

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George Bizet

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Two words to describe Anita and how she’s related to another character

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Fisty short and Bernardo’s love interest

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Two words to describe Carmen and how she’s related to another character

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Seductive not classy and likes escimio

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15
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Name of American gang

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Jets

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Two words to describe mikaela and related to someone else

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Innocent beautiful and loves don Jose

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Two words to describe don Jose and how he’s related

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Crazy superior and loves Carmen

18
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Name of Puerto Rican gangs

19
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How did Bernstein become famous over night as assistant conductor of NY Philharmone

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He was the understudy and had to perform when the main composer couldn’t come in

20
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Has some speaking few comical moment happy ending

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Opera comique

21
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Richest time period of Broadway musical

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Show boat- 1927-1957, west side story

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The year Carmen premiered

23
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What is a solo in an opera

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Instead of Capulet’s and montegues west side story has the

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Jets and sharks

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These performances featured exaggerated portrayals of blacks White performers in black face
Minstvel shows
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This type of show's stories became more real and music became integrated more logically
Broadway musical
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What are the two Gangs fighting over
Territory
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Who wrote the book west side story
Arthur laurents
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These types of shows included singers, dancers, jugglers, magicians, and animal acts
Vaudeville
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Composer of wss
Leonard Bernstein
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Person wrote music for wss
Stephen Sondheim
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Wrote choreography for wss
Jerome Robbins
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Carmen is sung in this language
French
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The setting of wss
1950s NYC, Manhattan
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Movie version of wss came out in this year
1961
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Music played at beginning of opera that serves as a preview to what's about to happen
Overture
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Carmen is set in this country
Spain
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Two main characters meet and fall in love at this event
Dance in the gym
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Wss is based on this story
Romeo and Juliet
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Lyrics in opera
Libretto
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Carmen works here with lots of other girls
Cigarette factory