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Music Test 3 Flashcards

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Chromaticism

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Using notes outside of the key

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Rubato

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Stretching the tempo

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2
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Nocturne

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Night music

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3
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Program music

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Instrumental music that tells a narrative story

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4
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Opera

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Ancient Greek plays set to baroque music

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5
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Libretto

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Book of the opera (edited down story)

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Recitative

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Talking speech like singing over a static accompaniment

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7
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Aria

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Big song over a moving accompaniment

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Ground bass (ostinato)

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Endlessly repeating bass melody

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9
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Castrati

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Men singing soprano

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10
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Art song

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A genre of song for voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic aspirations

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11
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Exoticism

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Use of sounds Drawn from outside the traditional Western European musical experience

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12
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Greatest opera composer of all time

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Mozart

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13
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Hector Berlioz

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French
Paris conservatory
Music criticism
New ways of orchestration - saxophone

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14
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French Chopin

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French Polish

Entirely solo piano music

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15
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Monteverdi, Orpheus “possente spirto”

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Recitative, aria

Operas

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Greatest of all English composers

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Henry Purcell

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Purcell

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Organist

Operas

18
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Orfeo

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Orfeo - demigod loves euridice -mortal. Married and she’s killed by snake and carried to hades. Uses divine music powers to find her. His father Apollo makes them both constellations (happy ending)

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Dido and Aeneas

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Solider aeneus seduces proud dido-queen of Carthage but then deserts her to find the city of rome. Dido dies of a broken heart

20
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Schubert

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Native to Vienna
Had small private assemblies
Short
Song cycles

21
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Erlkonig by Schubert

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Ballad about German poet Goethe. Tale of evil king of the elves and seduction of a young boy

Piano

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