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60 Cards in this Set
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Styles Of Still
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Blues melody
harmonic coloring |
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Styles of Copland
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religion; Shakers; traditional American values
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Styles of Gershwin
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Classical music
Jazz influences |
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Movement of Afro-american Symphony No.1
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Sonata-allegro form
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Aaron copland three populist ballets
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Rodeo & Billy the Kid & Appalachian Spring
Influence From shakers |
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name of Section 7 of appalachian spring
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Simple Gifts/ The gift to be simple
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Form of section 7 of appalachian spring
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doppio Movimento
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Forms gershwin brought together
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Jazz / pop / classical / concery hall
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rhapsody
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single movement composition with a free improvisatory character
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What is chamber music?
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Ensemble Music
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How many players in chamber music
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10 players
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Basso continuo
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a bass line with numerals indicating harmony supplied by the performer
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Sonata da chiesa
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for churce, serious in tone
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sonata da camera
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lighter sets of dance music for chamber
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What is the instrumentation of a string quartet?
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Violins viola and cello
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What is the instrumentation of a piano trio?
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Piano , violin and cello
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What composer is considered the father of strong quartet and father of the symphony?
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Joseph Hadyn
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Four movement patter for a classical string quartet?
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Multi movement patter
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What event was "Alla hornpipe" originally composed for?
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A royal party on the thames river
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What type of composition is a "Hornpipe"?
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Country dance of british isles
Often in triple meter |
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What is hadyns joke?
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The unpredictable changes in the music.
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Why is opus 76 referred to as Hadyns emperor quartet?
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Because the second movement is based on a hymn hadyn wrote for the austrian emperor franz jospeh
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What is the source of the main melody in Opus 76?
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The imperial hymn tune
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what form is opus 76?
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sonata form
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define Fugue
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Forms in which themes are developed by an imitative counterpart
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Form of Opus 131?
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Sonata allegro form
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What is a scherzo?
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A-B-A form in triple meter
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What does Scherzo replace in symphony/chamber music composition?
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Replaces Minuet and trio
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Define Pizzicato
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Performance direction to pluck a string from a bowed instrument
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Define Opera
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Music drama that is sung throughout
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Define Libretto
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Text or script for an opera
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Define librettist
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Author of a libretto
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Define Monody
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Vocal style in Baroque with a solo singer
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Define Recitative
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Solo vocal declamation that follows inflection
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Define Recitative Secco
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Dry accompanied by continuo music
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Define Recitative accompagnato
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accompanied by orchestra
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Define Aria
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Lyric song for solo voice ; orchestral accompaniment
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Define da capo aria
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Lyric song in ternary/A-B-A form
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Ground bass
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a repeating melody
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Define Overture
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an introduction movement
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When did opera begin?
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1600s
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What was cladio monteverdis role in early opera?
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Shaped italian opera
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Define opera Buffa
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Comic opera
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Define Opera seria
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Serious opera
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What was the name of Mozart's librettist for don giovanni?
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Lorenza Da ponte
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What operas did Mozart and da ponte collaborate on?
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The marriage of figaro ; Cosi fan tutte (Women are like that)
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Who is don giovanni
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An ammoral womanizer
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What happens to Don giovanni?
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Doomed to hell by a man he murdered
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What is bel canto?
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beautiful singing
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Which composers wrote in bel canto?
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Gioachino Rossini - Italian
verdi - Italian |
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define gesamtkunstwerk(total artwork)
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the art of music poetry and drama and visual spectacle rolled into one
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What story embodies total artwork?
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Ring of the nibelung
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What german composer is the primary influence on post romanticism?
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Giacomo Puccini
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Define Verismo
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Realism
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What are the characters/setting like in Verismo?
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Real characters in a down to earth fashion
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What composers represent Verismo?
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Emile Zola and Henrik Ibsen
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Who is returning in Madama butterfly?
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B.F pinkerton
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What is expressionism?
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A style of visual art and literature
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How is expressionism realized?
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THrough the Development of the 12-tone method
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How does bergs opera represent the style of expressionism?
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by enveloping listeners in a hallucinated world
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