Listening notes U3 Flashcards
Title:
Pirates of Penzance
Title: Pirates of Penzance
Section: Act II, No. 17, When the foeman bares his steel
Composer: Sullivan
Date: 1879
Genre: Operetta (comic opera)
“Maple Leaf Rag”
Title: “Maple Leaf Rag”
Composer: Joplin
Date: 1899
Genre: Piano rag
Section:
“Nuages”
Title: Nocturnes
Section: No. 1, “Nuages”
Composer: Debussy
Date: 1897-1899
Genre: Symphonic poem
Title:
Rite of Spring
Title: Le Sacre du Printemps
Sections: “Danse des adolescentes” and “Danse sacrale”
Composer: Stravinsky
Date: 1911-1913
Genre: Ballet
Title:
Classical Symphony
Title: Classical Symphony
Section: Mvt. 1
Composer: Prokofiev
Date: 1916-1917
Genre: Symphony
“Hotter Than That”
Title: “Hotter Than That”
Composer: Hardin
Date: 1927
Genre: New Orleans style jazz
Title
Pierrot Lunaire
Title: Pierrot Lunaire
Section: No. 8 “Nacht” and No. 13 “Enthauptung”
Composer: Schoenberg
Date: 1912
Genre: Melodrama (song cycle for speaker and chamber ensemble)
Terms included: Sprechstimme
Title:
Wozzeck
Title: Wozzeck
Section: Act III, Scene 3, “A low tavern”
Composer: Berg
Date: 1917-1922
Genre: opera
Terms included: Leitmotiv
Webern symphony
Title: Symphony, op. 21
Section: Mvt. 1
Composer: Webern
Date: 1927-1928
Genre: Symphony
Terms included: sonata form, pointillism, serialism, tone-color melody
String Quartet 1931
Title: String Quartet 1931
Section: Mvt. 4
Composer: Crawford Seeger
Date: 1931
Genre: string quartet
Title:
Alexander Nevsky
Title: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78
Section: Mvt. 4, “Arise, Ye Russian People”
Composer: Prokofiev
Date: 1938-1939
Genre: Cantata (originally film score)
Terms included: socialist realism
Title:
Mikrokosmos
Title: Mikrokosmos
Section: No. 123, Staccato and Legato
Composer: Bartók
Date: 1926; 1932-1939
Genre: etude
Title:
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Title: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Section: Mvt. 3, Adagio
Composer: Bártok
Date: 1936
Genre: Symphonic suite
Title:
Afro-American Symphony
Title: Afro-American Symphony
Section: Mvt. 1, Moderato assai
Composer: Still
Date: 1930
Genre: symphony
“The Tunning of Elinor Rumming”
Title: Five Tudor Portraits
Section: “The Tunning of Elinor Rumming”
Composer: Vaughan Williams
Date: 1935
Genre: choral suite
“Ko-Ko”
Title: “Ko-Ko”
Composer: Ellington
Date: 1940
Genre: Swing style jazz
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Title: General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Composer: Ives
Date: 1914
Genre: song
“Ko-Ko”
later version
Title: “Ko-Ko”
Composer: Parker and Gillespie
Date: 1945
Genre: Be-bop style jazz
“Misterioso”
Title: “Misterioso”
Composer: Monk
Date: 1948
Genre: Be-bop style jazz
Section:
Sonata V
Title: Sonatas and Interludes
Section: Sonata V
Composer: Cage
Date: 1946-1948
Genre: Suite for prepared piano
Terms included: prepared piano
Title:
Music of Changes
Title: Music of Changes
Section: Book I
Composer: Cage
Date: 1951
Genre: Chance composition for piano
Section:
“Outer Nothingness”
Title: The Heliocentric World of Sun Ra, vol. 1
Section: “Outer Nothingness”
Composer: Sun Ra
Date: 1965
Genre: Free jazz
Title:
Philomel
Title: Philomel
Section: Section I
Composer: Babbitt
Date: 1964
Genre: Monodrama for soprano, recorded soprano, and synthesized sound
Title:
Quartet for the End of Time
Title: Quartet for the End of Time
Section: Mvt. 1
Composer: Messiaen
Date: 1940-1941
Genre: Chamber music (quartet for violin, clarinet, violoncello, and piano)
