Vocal Music
J.S. Bach had to write one of these for every Sunday
What is a cantata?
“I have only wept three times in my life: the first time when my earliest opera failed, the second time when, with a boating party, a truffled turkey fell into the water, and the third time when I first heard Paganini play"
Who is Rossini?
The three parts of sonata form.
What are exposition, development, and recapitulation?
This Bach was arguably the most influential during his lifetime.
Who is C.P.E. Bach?
Franz Joseph Haydn spent much of his career in service of this excentric Hungarian patron.
Who is Prince Nikolaus von Esterhazy?
This ballet caused a riot in 1913 because of it's "primitive" choreography.
What is "The Rite of Spring?
This opera has the same story as Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and took Vienna by storm in 1822.
What is Il Barbiere di Siviglia?
"A musician cannot move others if he himself is not moved; it is therefore necessary for him to experience himself all the affects which he wishes to arouse in his listeners"
Who is C. P. E. Bach?
Berlioz's prototype to the Wagnerian leitmotif.
What is the "idee fixe"?
His Abendmusiken convinced J.S. to go on a long hike to Lübeck.
Who is Dietrich Buxtehude?
J.S. Bach wrote his "Musical Offering" for this king, who also was a gifted flautist.
Who is Frederick the Great of Prussia?
This NYC street became synonymous with American songwriting.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
A dispute in mid-1700s Paris, centered around Pergolesi and Lully.
"Though born with a fiery, active temperament, even susceptible to the diversions of society, I was soon compelled to withdraw myself, to live life alone"
Who is Beethoven?
"Invented" by Alessandro Scarlatti, then used to a T in most Baroque opera arias. Think ABA.
What is a da capo aria?
The only Bach to write operas.
Who is J.C. Bach?
J.S. Bach wrote a set of highly ambitious concertos for this (hypothetical) patron. It did not work out.
Who is the Margrave of Brandenburg?
This scale alternates whole and half steps. Bartok and Stravinsky were big fans.
What is the octatonic scale?
This composer was responsible for reforming the opera seria, creating a more natural presentation of the drama.
Who is Christoph Willibald Gluck?
"I was cut off from the world, there was nobody in my vicinity to make me unsure of myself or interfere with me in my course, and so I was forced to become original."
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?
This very complex sonata form is often used in Classical and Romantic concertos. Usually in first movements.
What is double exposition form?
Felix Mendelssohn led the J.S.Bach Renaissance with a performance of what work?
What is the St. Matthew Passion?
The Archduke Trio, the "Les Adieux" sonata, and the Missa Solemnis were all dedicated to this patron and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven's.
Who is Archduke Rudolph?
A technique by which a small musical figure is gradually moved out of synch with itself.
What is phasing?
This structure of slow-fast became the standard for Bel Canto arias.
What is cantabile-cabaletta?
"But there aren't many simple and basic passions... you'll easily see that there are only six: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy, sadness. All the others are either composed from some of these six or they are species of them."
Who is René Descartes?
In a fugue, this technique describes a "premature" entrance of the subject.
What is a "stretto"?
The founder of the Bach musician dynasty.
Who is Veit Bach?
Both Haydn's op. 77 and Beethoven's op. 18 quartets were written for this wealthy patron.
Who is Fürst v. Lobkowitz?
The four operas of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; in order!