The Fat Lady Sings
A dramatic stage composition, ordinarily in 2 or more acts.
Opera
The 'Father of the Symphony'
Franz Joseph Haydn
This piece is from Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, ‘The Nutcracker’.
'Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy'
A polyphonic vocal composition, most often based on sacred text.
Motet
A multi-movement work made up of a series of contrasting movements.
Suite
Italian comic opera, sung throughout.
Opera buffa
The 'Red Priest’.
Antonio Vivaldi
This piece is an example of this form of early liturgical music.
Chant
A performer of extraordinary technical ability.
Virtuoso
A multi-movement composition for 2 violins, a viola and a cello
String quartet
Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflections of the text, often resulting in disjunct vocal style.
Recitative
This Russian composer was both an epileptic and an alcoholic.
Modest Musorgsky
This is an excerpt from one of Mozart’s most famous compositions of this genre.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The four instruments that make up a traditional string quartet.
2 violins, a viola and a cello
A German-texted vocal song with piano accompaniment.
Lied
A lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment, generally expressing intense emotion.
Aria
This German composer was buried next to his hero, Ludwig van Beethoven.
Franz Schubert
Gustav Mahler used this children’s song as the basis for the third movement of his first symphony.
Frère Jacques
The Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead
Requiem Mass
A vocal genre for solo singers, chorus, and instrumentalists based on a lyric or dramatic poetic narrative usually consisting of several movements.
Cantata
Name the opera that this aria comes from.
'Dido and Aeneas'
This composer wrote for his choirs at the Basilica San Marco in Venice.
Giovanni Gabrielli
The melody of this composition's 2nd movement was taken to be used, and is still used, as the German national anthem.
String Quartet No. 62 by Franz Joseph Haydn
A performance direction to pluck a string of a bowed instrument
Pizzicato
A symphony is a larger work made up of a series of these.
Movements