Test 4 Flashcards
1
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What two words defined the romantic era of music?
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Death and destiny
2
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What was music between 1850 - 1900s primarily about?
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Death, destruction, and destiny
3
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What was the main belief of Italian operas?
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Bad in the world was caused by man
4
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Who conveyed complex emotions in opera?
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Giuseppe Verdi
5
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Who was Giuseppe Verdi?
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An Italian opera writer
6
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Who wrote “La Traviata”? (1853)
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Giuseppe Verdi
7
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What opera aimed to force audience to rethink prejudice and judgement while embodying male sexual double standards?
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“La Traviata”
8
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Where was Franz Liszt born
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Austria
9
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Who inspired Tchaikovsky?
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Franz Liszt
10
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What piece of work provided the ground work for the can can?
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“Grand Gallop Chromatique” by Franz Liszt
11
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Who was known for their dazzling, crowd-pleasing music?
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Franz Liszt
12
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Who was the first international star?
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Franz Liszt
13
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Who was known for their “paintings in sound?”
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Franz Liszt
14
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Who was influential on Claude DeBussy?
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Franz Liszt
15
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Who invented symphonic poems?
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Franz Liszt
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What are symphonic poems?
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Reduced four movement symphony to one scene, character, or snapshot
17
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How many symphonic poems did Liszt write?
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13
18
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Who shifted music from orchestral?
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Liszt
19
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Who first used all 12 notes of the western scale without repeating?
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Liszt
20
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Who wrote “Hungarian Rhapsody?”
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Franz Liszt
21
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What was gypsy music actually?
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Hungarian folk music
22
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What produced the most loved pieces of the 19th century?
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Pseudo-peasant style infiltrations
23
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What did America highly debate incorporating to mainstream music?
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Ethnic music
24
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Who wrote the “New World Symphony?”
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Dvorak
25
Who was accused of stealing native music?
Dvorak
26
Who first used diminished and augmented chords?
Richard Wagner
27
What is a tristan chord?
Diminished chord
28
Who replaced traditional Italian operas with continuous pieces?
Richard Wagner
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How long did it take Wagner to compose the “Ring Cycle?
Richard Wagner
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What was novel about the “Ring Cycle?"
The dimmed lights and hidden orchestra under the stage
31
Who created the light motif?
Haufman
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What is chromaticism?
“Filling music with color"
33
What does chromaticism do?
Makes all chords equally powerful and gives it an unsettling feeling
34
What were the main themes of the “Parsifal?"
Crucifixion and purity or Christ’s blood
35
Who wanted to remove all Jews from German culture and served as foundations for Hitler’s Nazism?
Richard Wagner
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Did Wagner have much of an influence on other composers?
No
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What did Italian operas both promote and condemn?
Prostitution
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How long did Giuseppe Verdi compose for?
51 years
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Who was the most famous Italian opera composer?
Giuseppe Verdi
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Who composed “dark scary Batman music?"
Franz Liszt
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Who was responsible for impressionist music?
Franz Liszt
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Who was the reason pianos now have iron frames because they played so hard?
Franz Liszt
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How long is the “Ring Cycle?"
4 hours a night for 4 nights
44
Was Wagner alive at the time of Nazism
No
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Who wrote “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2?”
Franz Liszt
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Who wrote Native American inspired folk songs?
Antionne Dvorak
47
Who wrote the “New World Symphony?"
Dvorak
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What is the “New World Symphony” most known for?
Nationalist folk song and its 1st and last movement
49
Where was Dvorak from?
Czechoslovakia
50
What piece of music sounds a lot like the intro to Jaws?
Last movement of the “New World Symphony"
51
What is the opposite of absolute music?
Program music
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What is program music?
Music inspired by artwork, an event, etc.
53
What is absolute music?
Music conjured simply out of a composer’s imagination?
54
When did Hector Berlioz live?
Just after Beethoven
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Who composed “Symphony Fantastique?"
Hector Berlioz
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How many movements was “Symphony Fantastique?"
5
57
Which composer heavily used opiates?
Hector Berlioz
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What was “Symphony Fantastique” about?
A love for a Shakespeare actress he never met
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What was novel about “Symphony Fantastique?"
First time using a 3-button trumpet, saxophone, anvil, and the biggest symphony to date
60
How many harps played in “Symphony Fantastique?"
2
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Who was responsible for elevating self-expression in music?
Beethoven
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What is different about Romantic music?
More interesting and less regular phrase length
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What is chromaticism?
All 1/2 steps of a scale
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What did romantic treatment of tone color involve?
A lot of instruments
65
What is different about romantic orchestras?
They’re larger
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What does program music do?
Tell a story
67
What is thematic unity?
Ideefix (same theme throughout symphony)
68
What is a ball?
2nd movement in “Symphony Fantastique” in 3/4 time
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What movement in “Symphony Fantastique” is plainchant melody?
5th
70
What is recognizable about the second movement of “Symphony Fantastique?"
2 harps
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What is the name of the 4th movement of “Symphony Fantastique?"
“March to the Scaffold"
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What is the name of the 5th movement of “Symphony Fantastique?"
“Witch’s Sabbath"
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What instruments were unique to the 4th movement of “Symphony Fantastique?”
2 sets of 4 tympanis
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What instruments were unique to the 5th movement of “Symphony Fantastique?"
5 clarinets and 4 bassoons
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What composer was infamous for his antisemitism?
Richard Wagner
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Who composed “Ride of the Valkyries?"
Richard Wagner
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What is a valkyrie?
A female warrior in the afterlife that carried heroes off the field
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What composer wrote a lot about prostitutes or “ladies of the night?"
Verdi
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Who composed “Aida” (Triumphal march)
Verdi
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How many movements are requiems?
5
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What are requiems?
Played at funerals, “mass for the dead"
82
What venue became increasingly popular?
Concert halls
83
What is music with no singing but derived from art, literature, etc?
Program music
84
What is an ideefix?
Same idea throughout a symphony
85
“Thematic unity occurs when a composer...."
Answer: B
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Does thematic unity occur in the same themes over different symphonies?
No
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What kind of music is “Symphony Fantastique?"
Program music
88
Was Mozart a Romantic composer?
No
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Who had the greatest influence on early romantic composers?
Beethoven
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What element had the greatest influence on early romantic composers?
Literature
91
What instrument was the most widely played in the early romantic era?
Piano
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What instrument was the most common in households?
Piano
93
What type of music are nationalistic?
Folk songs
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What composer was the first to use “weird percussion?"
Berlioz
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Who was the godfather of music and modern theater and music?
Wagner
96
Who was responsible for the symphonic poem?
Liszt
97
Where does jazz come from?
Congo Square in New Orleans
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What era was jazz developed in?
1900s
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When did jazz become popular
1920s
100
What type of instruments did slaves play?
European instruments
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What was Sousa’s impact on music?
He modified the tuba to wrap around the player, invented the sousaphone
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What was unique about the slaves in Congo Square?
They were allowed to play instruments on Sundays
103
When was Dixieland jazz popularized?
1900s
104
How did jazz funeral marches proceed?
Sad on the way there and lively on the way back
105
What served as the foundation of Blues music?
African American work songs
106
What contributed to the sad tonality of blues music?
“blue notes"
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What notes are considered “blue?"
3 flat and 5 flat
108
What is “call and response”?
The African tradition of an instrument responding to a singer
109
What is scat?
Randomly singing, invented by Louis Armstrong
110
Who is Duke Ellington?
Famous composer, performer, and pianist
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Who is Charlie Parker?
Famous jazz saxophonist
112
Who invented bebop?
Charlie Parker
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What type of music was bebop?
Fast jazz music intended to listen to, not dance
114
Who named the style of bebop?
Charlie Parker
115
What do you call playing in unison in jazz?
The head
116
Who was Dizzy Gillespie?
Bebop jazz artist
117
How did Dizzy Gillespie get his name?
The phrase “dizzy like a fox” because he’d act stupid
118
How does a drummer keep time?
High hat and ride cymbal
119
What purposes do bases serve?
Keeping harmonic and rhythmic time
120
What does it mean when pianos are “comping?"
They outline and answer the chords
121
In what style of jazz was scat invented?
Swing jazz
122
What composer was famous for writing music for specifically his band?
Duke Ellington
