match piece to its genre, story description,or term exemplified Flashcards
(15 cards)
Mozart/Don Giovanni
Classic, opera– Don Juan, heartlessly seduces women across Europe- condemned to eternal damnation
Beethoven/Symphony No. 5
Classic, symphony– may be the most famous piece of “Classical” music ever written. Written after he had gone deaf
Schubert/Erlkonig
Romantic, lied
Berlioz/Fantastic Symphony
Program symphony, romantic
Chopin/Nocturne in E-flat major
Character piece, romantic
Wagner/Die Walkure from Ring of the Nibelungen
Musikdrama, Romantic
Smetana/ The Moldau
Symphonic poem, romantic
Puccini/La Boheme
Romantic, versimo opera
Tchaikovsky/Nutcracker
Romantic, ballet
Schoenberg/Pierrot lunaire
Sprechstimme, Atonality, Expressionism, 20th century
Schoenberg/Survivor from Warsaw
20th century, serialism
Debussy/Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
20th century, Impressionism, symphonic poem
Copland/Appalachian Spring
20th century, ballet
Stravinsky/Rite of spring
ballet, 20th century
Bernstein/West side story
Jazz-influenced musical theater, 20th century