Final Exam Study Guide Flashcards
Smaller instrumental work that served as background music for an outdoor concert, family concert, wedding, birthday, etc.
Serenade
Beethoven’s hometown
Bonn, Germany
Mozart’s hometown
Salzburg, Austria
Large instrumental work for an orchestra with several parts or movements
Symphony
(blank)’s father was an alcoholic and forced him to practice when he was a child
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Father of a Symphony
Franz Joseph Haydn
Child prodigy who began composing before age 5 and was performing for nobility at age 6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Term used to describe styles of art influenced by ancient Greek and Roman sculptures
Classical
Painting technique created by Claude Monet with soft, blurred details up close
Impressionism
French term for “fixed idea”, recurring theme representing something
Idee fixe
Music that tells a story or is based on an idea or scene
Program music
A short piece of music for solo piano descriptive of an emotion, feeling, place, characters, etc.
Character piece
Dealing with faraway lands and their exotic natures
Exoticism
Long, multi-movement piece of music for orchestra that became even longer in the Romantic period
Symphony
Music for music’s sake; music that does not tell a story and is not based on an idea or scene
absolute music
a short recurring phrase connected to a particular person, place, or idea
Leitmotif
This person composed the opera, Carmen
George Bizet
Les Miserables takes place here
Paris
Les Miserables was originally written in this language
French
Les Miserables is based on the novel with the same name written by…
Victor Hugo
A speech-like style of singing, only uses a few pitches, not a melody
Recitative
The text or lyrics of an opera
Libretto
Minstrel show composer who wrote “My Old Kentucky Home”, “Oh Susannah”, and “Camptown Races”
Stephen Foster
A Spanish dance, also the title of Carmen’s first aria where she sings that love is like a “rebellious bird that no one can tame”
Habanera
