This intensely Romantic, German composer revolutionized opera. His most famous opera cycle is Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848-74).
What is Richard Wagner
100
Vienna was a mecca for musicians and composers during which period?
Antiquity – Renaissance – Baroque – Romantic
What is Romantic
100
This genre, meaning “German art song” was especially popular during the Romantic period
What is Lied
100
Which voice part is the oldest?
Soprano – Alto – Tenor – Bass
Tenor
100
Name the composer, title, and the part of the movement where this theme appears.
Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, Mvt. 1: Beginning of recapitulation
200
This man was most interested in music and numbers.
What is Pythagoras
200
Beethoven’s music provides a bridge between which two musical periods?
What is Classical/Romantic
200
Define Modulation
Change of key (begun in the Baroque era)
200
The troubadours lived mainly in:
Southern France
200
Is this music best classified as chant, organum, or motet?
Organum
Perotinus “Viderunt omnes” (1199)
300
This composer wrote the first masterpiece of opera:
What is Claudio Monteverdi (Orfeo, 1607)
300
With which musical time period is the Enlightenment most closely related?
Medieval – Renaissance – Classical – Romantic
What is Classical
300
This is a recurring musical idea associated with a certain moment in the dramatic action of an opera. This technique was used most effectively for the first time by Wagner.
What is Leitmotiv
300
Perotinus was part of the:
Notre Dame School
300
Is this piece programmatic or absolute?
Absolute
J.S. Bach “Contrapunctus no. 1” (1740s)
400
Guillaume Machaut was deemed “the last trouvere,” which meant:
He wrote both poetry and music
400
This label is often applied to music composed after WWI. It draws on musical techniques and forms from the 18th century and combines them with Modernist innovation.
What is Neo-classicism
400
This was a new genre of orchestral music spawned in the Romantic era. It consists of one long movement instead of several traditional movements, and is based on a program.
What is Symphonic poem
400
Musical notation was invented in the era of:
Palestrina – Charlemagne – Machaut – Perotinus – Josquin
Charlemagne
400
Which historical term is most appropriate for this music?
Impressionism – Nationalism – Expressionism – Neo-classicism
Nationalism
Modest Musorgsky, Boris Godunov “Coronation Scene” (Act 1, Scene 2) (1874 or 1876)
500
This man was one of the most famous Neo-classicists in music. During WWI, he began to change musical direction, rejecting the grandeur and emotional extremes of Late Romanticism in favor of a return to “Classical” forms.
What is Igor Stravinsky
500
Was the Baroque period characterized by classicism or anti-classicism?
Anti-classicism
500
Define Gesamtkunstwerk
“All arts combined work” – combination of poetry, acting, music, and artistic scenery in a grand synthesis of the arts
500
A Renaissance motet is a kind of:
Chorale – sacred polyphony – mass cycle – madrigal
Sacred polyphony
500
Name the poetic form that Wagner used when he wrote the libretto for this opera
Stabreim
Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold, Act 1, scene 1, beginning