Top Auditory Clues Flashcards
(245 cards)
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begins with the strings repeating the note G while playing a col legno ostinato
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Mars, the Bringer of War (Holst)
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a loud G-minor chord represents a beheading
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March to the Scaffold (Berlioz)
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Johann Peter Salomon nicknamed it
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Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” (Mozart)
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King George II supposedly rose from his seat during one performance of it
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Messiah (Handel)
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designed to introduce children to the instruments in the ensemble
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The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
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first movement of the Peer Gynt suite
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Morning Mood (Grieg)
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based on a poem by Cardinal Newman
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The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar)
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completed by Franz Süssmayr
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Requiem Mass in D minor (Mozart)
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Fossils’ movement uses xylophone for rattling bones (like in Danse Macabre)
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The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saenz)
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closing scene of Goethe’s Faust
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Symphony of a Thousand (Mahler)
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March to the Scaffold
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Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz)
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He shall reign forever and ever” Messiah (Handel)
Italian bagpipers Messiah (Handel)
The trumpet shall sound” and “Ev’ry valley shall be exalted”
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Messiah (Handel)
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“jazz-influenced symphonic poem”
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An American in Paris (Gershwin)
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first piece represents the castle of Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
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Ma Vlast (Smetana)
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opens with a harp playing a repeated D twelve times
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Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens)
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named after a club in Sedalia, Missouri
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Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
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translates to “a little night music”
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Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
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short pizzicato notes meant to depict a head bouncing down steps
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March to the Scaffold (Berlioz)
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contains “O Fortuna”
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Carmina Burana (Orff)
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inspired by a Friedrich Klopstock piece
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Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection” (Mahler)
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includes “The “St. Gaudens” in Boston Common,” “Putnam’s Camp,” and “The Housatonic at Stockbridge”
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Three Places in New England (Ives)
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“symphonic fairy tale for children”
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Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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based on a Henri Cazalis poem
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Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens)
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alternating 6/8 theme between flute and oboe meant to depict the sun rising
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Morning Mood (Grieg)
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features a 22-bar snare drum “invasion theme”
Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad" (Shostakovich)
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Peter = string instruments
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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Charles Jennens wrote the libretto
Messiah (Handel)
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commissioned for the opening of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral
War Requiem (Britten)
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written for King George I
Water Music (Handel)
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In Spring, In the Meadow, In the Tavern, Court of Love sections
Carmina Burana (Orff)
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translates to “Moonlight”
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
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cellos repeat its eight-note ground bass theme twenty-eight times
Canon in D major (Pachelbel)
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composed for the coronation for King George II describing the anointing of King Solomon by Nathan the Prophet
Zadok the Priest (Handel)
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rapid descending passages in the left hand called the “crack of creation”
Revolutionary Etude (Chopin)
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the most famous movement of Carmina Burana
O Fortuna (Orff)
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about a sickly woman arguing with an apparition
Death and the Maiden (Schubert)
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based on the bassline of an aria found in a famous notebook belonging to the composer's wife, Anna Magdalena
Goldberg Variations (J.S. Bach)
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follows a pastoral movement in 12/8 time titled Pifa
Messiah (Handel)
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twenty-nine bars of fortissimo C major chords
Symphony No.5 in C minor (Beethoven)
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a lengthy harpsichord cadenza opens the 5th of these
Brandenburg Concertos (J.S. Bach)
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depicts a Witches’ Sabbath led by the demon Chernabog on St. John's Eve
Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)
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“Tuba Mirum” section
Requiem Mass in D minor (Mozart)
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inspired by a Stéphane Mallarmé poem
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy)
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Bird = Flute
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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a spooky organ piece
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (J.S. Bach)
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originally dedicated to Napoleon
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica” (Beethoven)
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its nickname evokes the title phenomenon at Lake Lucerne (Ludwig Rellstab)
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
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5 movements
Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” (Beethoven)
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nickname indicates the emotional way it is supposed to be performed
Piano Sonata No. 23, "Appassionata" (Beethoven)
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turned into a controversial ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy)
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includes the "Two Jews" "Samuel Goldenberg and 'Schmuÿle'" movement
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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opens with the “Troparion of the Holy Cross”
1816 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
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narrated by Eric Crozier
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
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part of Salome that caused controversy when it was first performed
Dance of the Seven Veils (Strauss)
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consists of fourteen fugues and four canons in D minor
The Art of Fugue (J.S. Bach)
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includes movements like Solveig's Song, The Death of Åse, Anitra's Dance, Morning Mood, and In the Hall of the Mountain King
Music to Peer Gynt (Grieg)
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contains the "hallelujah Chorus"
Messiah (Handel)
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given its nickname by Johann Baptist Cramer
Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" (Beethoven)
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a goat-herd (Capraro) sleeping and his dog is depicted barking with a two-note viola motif
Spring (La Primavera) (Vivaldi)
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one ("Ysobel") dedicated to Isabel Fitton, a viola pupil
Enigma Variations (Elgar)
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a D-major piece played at the Last Night of the Proms (BBC Proms)
Pomp and Circumstance Marches (Elgar)
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sections are often titled for initials such as “C.A.E.”
Enigma Variations (Elgar)
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depists gnats buzzing and a violent hail storm
Summer (L'estate) (Vivaldi)
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“Dies Irae” section opens with tremolo strings and repeated chords in the brass
Requiem Mass in D minor (Mozart)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau arranged it for solo flute
Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
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6/8 scherzo in military style
Symphony No. 9, “Choral” (Beethoven)
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Duck = Oboe
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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English horn solo
Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” (Dvorak)
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third movement from Suite Bergamasque
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
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includes "The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)" movement
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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Bassoons and pizzicato cellos gets louder and faster while meeting a group of trolls
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
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celebrates Russia’s victory over Napoleon
1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
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Venus, the Bringer of Peace
The Planets (Holst)
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consists of two books of alternating preludes and fugues in all 24 keys
The Well-Tempered Clavier (J.S. Bach)
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used for the coronation of Francis II as Holy Roman Emperor in 1792
Coronation Mass (Mozart)
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written to thank the University of Breslau for an honorary degree
Academic Festival Overture (Brahms)
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frantic runs of chromatic sixteenth notes
The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
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“I know that my Redeemer liveth”
Messiah (Handel)
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begins with a short Grave section and has a famous Rondo 3rd movement
Piano Sonata No. 8, "Pathetique" (Beethoven)
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includes ones named Miracle, Clock, Military, Drumroll, and Surprise
London Symphonies (Haydn)
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an orchestral interlude in the opera The Tale of Tzar Sultan
The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
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858 singers and 171 musicians
Symphony of a Thousand (Mahler)
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made the National March of the USA
The Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa)
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adapted by Cecil Spring Rice for “I Vow to Thee, My Country”
The Planets (Holst)
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Feierlich movement
Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish" (Schumann)
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a depiction of a Paul Verlaine poem
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
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composed for the “average American”
Fanfare for the Common Man (Copland)
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trills and staccato notes to represent the singing birds
Spring (La Primavera) (Vivaldi)
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Limping waltz
Symphony No. 6, “Pathetique” (Tchaikovsky)
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Sunrise first movement uses a rising C-G-C “Nature” motif
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)
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“Thunderstorm”
Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” (Beethoven)
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begins with the flute playing a descending chromatic scale to a tritone that depicts the title mythological creature in the forest
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy)
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inspired by a speech by Vice President Henry A. Wallace
Fanfare for the Common Man (Copland)
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used in Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring
Simple Gifts (traditional Shaker hymn)
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a march commonly used at graduations
Pomp and Circumstance Marches (Elgar)
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depicts hunters chasing and killing a beast
Autumn (L'autunno) (Vivaldi)
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Tortoises' movement includes a slow rendition of Offenbach's "Galop infernal"
The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saenz)
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played at the funerals of both FDR and JFK
Adagio for Strings (Barber)
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the original published score included The Great Wave off Kanagawa on the cover
La Mer (Debussy)
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there is a thunderstorm and bagpipes are represented with some low notes
Spring (La Primavera) (Vivaldi)
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includes a “March of the Pilgrims”
Harold in Italy (Berlioz)
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Aquarium' movement includes a glass harmonica
The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saenz)
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second section is a "Symbolum Nicenum" with a central "Crucifixus"
Mass in B minor (J.S. Bach)
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includes three “hammer blows of fate” at its end
Symphony No. 6, "Tragic" (Mahler)
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Ice in your blood!
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
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Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
The Planets (Holst)
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performed under titles such as Impromptu in order to avoid Russian censorship
Finlandia (Sibelius)
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pieces nicknamed “The Hunt,” "The Trill," "The Arpeggio," “The Devil’s Laughter”
24 Caprices (Paganini)
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to the memory of a great man
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica” (Beethoven)
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based on a Goethe poem
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)
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10th and final movement of Pictures at an Exhibition
Great Gate of Kiev (Mussorgsky)
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one ("Dorabella") dedicated to Dora Penny, a friend with a stutter
Enigma Variations (Elgar)
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contains "The Four Seasons", “The Sea Storm” and “Pleasure”
The Contest Between Harmony and Invention (Vivaldi)
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three movements called "Clouds", "Festivals", and "Sirens"
Nocturnes (Debussy)
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the ninth of his London symphonies
Symphony No. 101, "Clock" (Haydn)
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opens with a seventeen-note clarinet glissando
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
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“Scene by the Brook”
Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” (Beethoven)
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movements such as Sinbad’s Ship and The Kalendar Prince
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
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featured an 11/4 time signature in sections now marked as alternating in 5/4 and 6/4 time
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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fourth movement is a set of variations on its composer's song "Die Forelle"
Trout Quintet (Schubert)
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written for violin virtuouso Paganini who refused to premiere it because it had too many rests
Harold in Italy (Berlioz)
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named without a number to avoid the curse of the 9th symphony
The Song of the Earth (Mahler)
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Lacrymosa section went unfinished when the composer died
Requiem Mass in D minor (Mozart)
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21 high-spirited pieces including one based on the czardas “Memories of Bártfa"
Hungarian Dances (Brahms)
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inspired by a George Meredith poem about a bird
The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)
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written after the death of the composer's mother
A German Requiem (Brahms)
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King George II commissioned it to celebrate the end of the War of Austrian Succession (Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel)
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Friedrich Schiller poem
Symphony No. 9, “Choral” (Beethoven)
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features a theme for a turtle dove and trembling shepherd
Summer (L'estate) (Vivaldi)
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inspired by the sight of a dog chasing its tail
Minute Waltz (Chopin)
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entr'acte from the incidental music to Rosamunde
Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished” (Schubert)
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the hymn “O Lord, Save thy People” represents peasants
1814 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
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Dream of a Witches' Sabbath
Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz)
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used in Fantasia starring Mickey Mouse
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)
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opens with a 5/4 ostinato played by col legno strings (Mars, the Bringer of War)
The Planets (Holst)
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gunshots = timpani and bass drum
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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“three symphonic sketches”
La Mer (Debussy)
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cadenza of four woodwinds
Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” (Beethoven)
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marked “Quasi una fantasia”
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
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a series of merry pranks (Uranus, the Magician)
The Planets (Holst)
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set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes
Hungarian Rhapsodies (Liszt)
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Das Lied von der Erde
The Song of the Earth (Mahler)
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inspired by a visit to the U.S.
Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” (Dvorak)
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Imperatrix Mundi section
Carmina Burana (Orff)
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“Merry Gathering of Country Folk”
Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” (Beethoven)
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glissando originally improvised by Ross Gorman during a rehearsal
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
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Play of the Waves movement
La Mer (Debussy)
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dedicated the piece to "my friends pictured within"
Enigma Variations (Elgar)
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includes the “Wedding March”
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
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includes movements "Catacombs" movement
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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serenade in G for strings
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
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inspired the hymn “Be, Still My Soul”
Finlandia (Sibelius)
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“Bouree” and “Air” movements
Water Music (Handel)
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include several dumkas, furiants, and sousedskas
Slavonic Dances (Dvorak)
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written after a trip to the Cologne Cathedral
Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish" (Schumann)
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bassoon plays a solo marked with a dynamic marking of pppppp
Symphony No. 6, “Pathetique” (Tchaikovsky)
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uses a cor anglais (English horn) to depict the title creature in the river of the underworld
The Swan of Tuonela (Sibelius)
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broken into ABAB and CADA sections (Great Gate of Kiev)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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used as theme music for The Sting and can be heard on many ice-cream trucks
The Entertainer (Joplin)
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Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
The Planets (Holst)
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“symphony with the fugal finale;”
Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” (Mozart)
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inspired by a Matthias Claudius poem
Death and the Maiden (Schubert)
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title character is depicted in high-pitched violin solo intermezzos between movements
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
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“Thaxted”
The Planets (Holst)
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includes "The Old Castle", "Promenade", and "Cattle" movements
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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flute solo resembling “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot;”
Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” (Dvorak)
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begins with the piano playing octave Gs in triplets
Erlkonig (Schubert)
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Dialogue of the wind and the sea movement
La Mer (Debussy)
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The Moldau piece represents the Vltava running through Prague
Ma Vlast (Smetana)
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brass play chords of E minor and G♯ minor together (Neptune, the Mystic)
The Planets (Holst)
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The Elephant' movement uses double bass
The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saenz)
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Wolf = French horns
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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“Song of Hiawatha” 3rd movement
Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” (Dvorak)
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strings respond to a repeated rising triad motif with two pairs of high staccato notes
Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss II)
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the first prelude, in C Major, was given a solo part by Charles Gounod in his Ave Maria
The Well-Tempered Clavier (J.S. Bach)
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dedicated to the Margrave Christian Ludwig
Brandenburg Concertos (J.S. Bach)
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prominently features four taxi horns
An American in Paris (Gershwin)
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based on the festive song “Gaudeamus igitur”
Academic Festival Overture (Brahms)
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opens with a chromatic E, D-sharp, E, D-sharp, E, B, D, C, A
Fur Elise (Beethoven)
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penultimate section of Symphonie Fantastique
March to the Scaffold (Berlioz)
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actually The Hebrides (overture)
Fingal's Cave (Mendelsohn)
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Hunters = woodwind and trumpet
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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uses “La Marseillaise” to represent the French army
1813 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
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fortissimo G major chord to start 2nd movement
Symphony No. 94, “Surprise” by (Haydn)
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uses text from the Luther Bible instead of a Latin text
A German Requiem (Brahms)
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commissioned by Paul Whiteman for his “An Experiment in Modern Music” concert
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
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cannon fire is used in the ending
1815 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
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written by Mozart and first performed in Prague
Symphony No. 38, "Prague" (Mozart)
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Harry Burleigh's "Goin' Home.”
Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” (Dvorak)
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Allegro molto fugue final movement stars with a piccolo
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
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French overture-inspired E minor Sinfony
Messiah (Handel)
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inspired by Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dances
Slavonic Dances (Dvorak)
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double fugue at the end of the "Kyrie" section
Requiem Mass in D minor (Mozart)
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scordatura violin plays the “Devil’s Chord” and represents death
Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens)
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players leave the stage one by one at the end blowing out candles
Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor, "Farewell" (Haydn)
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extremely technically difficult pieces dedicated to piano teacher Carl Czerny
Transcendental Etudes (Liszt)
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contains 13 variations on a theme taken from the "Rondeau" of Henry Purcell's Abdelazer
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
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each work explores different violin skills
24 Caprices (Paganini)
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meant to be performed in barges on the Thames River
Water Music (Handel)
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a depiction of drunk peasants (“fired up by Bacchus’s liquor”) and notes "the drunkards have fallen asleep"
Autumn (L'autunno) (Vivaldi)
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second movement of the third one consists of the two chords of a Phrygian half-cadence
Brandenburg Concertos (J.S. Bach)
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“Slay him! Slay him!”
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
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E-flat, F, G, E-flat, G, F, low B-flat chord block (Great Gate of Kiev)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
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final section of this piece is called the "Song of the Night Wanderer"
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)
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inspired by a train ride to Boston
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
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written for Count Hermann Carl von Kaiserling to cure his insomnia
Goldberg Variations (J.S. Bach)
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ranz des vaches by an English horn and an offstage oboe
Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz)
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Fate knocking at the door
Symphony No.5 in C minor (Beethoven)
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“The Dance in the Village Inn”
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
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collection of 21 short piano pieces including “Chopin,” “Pantalon et Colombine,” "March of Davidsbündler against the Philistines"
Carnaval (Schumann)
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a pianist just sits at the piano in silence
4'33" (Cage)
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inspired by a bombardment on Warsaw
Revolutionary Etude (Chopin)
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one ("Nimrod") dedicated to Augustus J. Jaeger
Enigma Variations (Elgar)
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used three Ukrainian folk songs and was loved by The Five
Symphony No. 2, "Little Russian" (Tchaikovsky)
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contains a theme named for his wife Alma
Symphony No. 6, "Tragic" (Mahler)
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one of the hardest pieces ever written for solo piano that includes a 3 voice fugue at the end
Piano Sonata No. 29, "Hammerklavier" (Beethoven)
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the last movement of Children's Corner
Golliwogg’s Cakewalk (Debussy)
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features poems by Wilfred Owen and the Latin Missa pro Defunctis
War Requiem (Britten)
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From dawn to noon on the sea movement
La Mer (Debussy)
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the second of them features a lassan section and a friska section
Hungarian Rhapsodies (Liszt)
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used in the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)
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“Land of Hope and Glory”
Pomp and Circumstance Marches (Elgar)
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Bagatelle sans tonalitté is sometimes included as part of these works
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
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largely influenced by Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
Harold in Italy (Berlioz)
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uses xylophones to represent rattling bones (like in Carnival of the Animals)
Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens)
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melodic fragments in B♭ major and E major (Mercury, the Winged Messenger)
The Planets (Holst)
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symphony for orchestra, choir, boys' choir, soprano soloist, and narrator that was dedicated to JFK
Kaddish Symphony (Bernstein)
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C-sharp minor piece that begins with right-hand arpeggios
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
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C minor funeral march
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica” (Beethoven)
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Ode to Joy
Symphony No. 9, “Choral” (Beethoven)
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written a few months after the composer married Clara Wieck
Symphony No. 1, "Spring" (Schumann)
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R.P.A pays homage to the son of Mathew Arnold
Enigma Variations (Elgar)
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based off the Thousand and One Nights
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
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written for a tenor and an alto, or else a tenor and a baritone if an alto is not available
The Song of the Earth (Mahler)
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begins with a depiction of teeth chattering in the cold
Winter (L'inverno) (Vivaldi)
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Alla Hornpipe movement
Water Music (Handel)
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short-short-short-long
Symphony No.5 in C minor (Beethoven)
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Grandfather = Bassoon
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
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depicts someone slipping and falling on ice
Winter (L'inverno) (Vivaldi)
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six songs for two singers who alternate movements
The Song of the Earth (Mahler)
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from the incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and played at nuptial events
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
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written while the composer was staying with Johann Peter Salomon
London Symphonies (Haydn)
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pizzicato notes depicting a rolling head after an execution
Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz)
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The Swan' movement is a staple for cello players
The Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saenz)
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inspired by a set of 24 caprices for violn
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Rachmaninov)
