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Erlkönig
Composer?
Genre?
Form?
Text?
Setting/characters?
- -Schubert
- -Lied
- -Through-composed
- -Johann Wolfgang van Goetne
- -Dark and stormy night, 4 characters 1 singer
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Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai
First of?
Genre?
Form?
- -First of 16 songs
- -Lied, from a song cycle
- -Strophic, 2 versus with the same music
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"Military" Polonaise
Genre?
Form?
Meter?
- -Polonaise is a subgenre
- -Ternary form and rubato
- -Triple meter
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Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, no. 2 URL
Genre?
Subgenre?
Form/tonality?
- -Character piece
- -Intermezzo
- -Ternary (ABA), Rubato, mostly major tonality
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Verdi: Rigoletto, excerpt from Act III
Based on?
Characteristics?
- -A play by Victor Hugo
- -Catchy melodies and movements
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Wagner -- Die Walküre, Ride of the Valkyries
Plot based on?
Orchestra is integral part of what?
Endless what?
- -Legend, folktale, supernatural
- -Valkyries=War princesses
- -Orchestra is integral part of the drama: "Ride" leitmotif
- -Endless Melody: Continuous music, no aria/recitative depiction
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Dvořák -- Rusalka, "Song to the Moon"
-Based on?
-Water nymph?
-Premiered in?
-Only one of?
-Shows Wagnerian influence how?
- -Folk story
- -Water nymph long to be human
- -Premiered in Prague, 1801
- -Shows Wagnerian influence (continuous music, system of motives, harmonic language)
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Tchaikovsky -- Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
Genre?
How many Acts?
Written in how many days?
Choreographer?
- -Ballet
- -3 Acts
- -40 days
- -Marius Petipa
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Debussy -- Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun (1894)
Genre?
Inspired by?
In 1912, turned into what which was choreographed by?
- -Symphonic poem
- -Inspired by a poem by Mallarme
- -In 1912, turned into a Modernist ballet tusses
- -Choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky
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Stravinsky -- Rite of Spring, I: Dance of Youths and Maidens
Genre?
Choreographer?
Styles?
Extensive use of what?
- -Ballet, now mostly a concert work
- -Nijinsky choreographer
- -Exoticism/primitivism
- -Extensive use of Russian folksongs, Pagan rituals of ancient Russians (sacrifice)
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire (1912)
Genre?
Text by?
Based on?
How many players/instruments?
- -Song cycle (21 songs)
- -Text by Albert Giraus
- -Based on the stock character Pierrot (a native and eccentric clown)
- 5 players, 8 instruments
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Copland: Appalachian Spring (1944/45)
Genre?
-Ballet suite
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Cage, Sonatas and Interludes, Sonata V (1948)
For what?
Set of what?
Techniques?
- -For prepared piano
- -Set of 16 sonatas and 3 interludes
- -Extended techniques
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Beethoven -- Piano Sonata #8, "Pathetique," ii, Adagio cantabile
Genre?
Coda?
Opens with a famous?
- -Sonata
- -Yes
- - opens with a famous cantabile melody
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Beethoven -- Symphony no. 5, i: Allegro con brio
Genre?
What is repeated?
- -Symphony
- -Beethoven's fifth, sounds loud and then calms down after the fifth is first played
- -Oboe
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Beethoven -- Symphony no. 5, ii: Andante con moto
-Characteristics?
- -Slow cello at the beginning, mostly calm/quiet piano dynamic
- -Flute
- -Horns
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Beethoven -- Symphony no. 5, iii: Allegro: Scherzo and trio
Characteristics?
- -Triumphant/loud, with flute sections in the middle of the triumphant sections
- -Violin thing in the middle, fast playing triumphant
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Beethoven -- Symphony no. 5, iv: Allegro URL
- -Stars out loud, forte
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Sounds like a finale
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Franz Liszt -- "La Campanella"
Genre?
Characteristics?
- -Etude
- -Piano playing, high key keeps being played, really stands out at beginning
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Berlioz -- Symphony Fantastique, IV: March to the Scaffold
Genre?
- -Symphony
- -Low drums, dark sounding
- -Clarinet
- -A lot of pizzicato
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Smetana -- Vltava File (1874)
Genre?
- -Symphonic poem
- -Clarinet w/pizzicato at beginning
- -Sweet sounding violin in middle
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Brahms -- Ein Deutsches Requiem, movement 4
Genre:
- -Requiem
- -Singing
with orchestra
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Verdi -- Requiem, excerpt from "Libera Me,"
Genre?
-Requiem
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