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OPERA!
De-"Composers"
Get with the program!
A song in my heart
Potpourri
100
A short musical idea associated with a person, object or thought in Wagner's operas.
What is a leitmotif?
100
He was a violin virtuoso.
Who is Niccolo Paganini?
100
Instrumental music that is associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
What is program music?
100
The performers in an art song.
What are a solo voice and piano?
100
This is a study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties.
What is an etude?
200
This is the Verdi opera the famous aria "La donna e mobile" comes from.
What is Rigoletto?
200
Known as a traditionalist, he carried on the symphonic tradition of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Who is Brahms?
200
A programmatic work for orchestra that has more than one movement.
What is a program symphony?
200
A group of art songs organized around a single topic.
What is a song cycle?
200
A slight slowing down or speeding up of the tempo, very common in Romantic music.
What is rubato?
300
The site of the opera house built to Wagner's specifications, where an annual festival of his music is still presented today.
What is Bayreuth?
300
This composer died in an asylum.
Who is Robert Schumann?
300
Music designed to be inserted before, during and between the acts of a play.
What is incidental music?
300
The form of "The Erlking."
What is through-composed?
300
Clara Schumann would say she was this, first and foremost.
What is a pianist?
400
He wrote the librettos to "The Ring of the Nibelung."
Who is Wagner?
400
He created the symphonic poem, a one-movement, programmatic orchestral work.
Who is Liszt?
400
The name given to the recurring theme in Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony."
What is the idee fixe?
400
This form is when the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem.
What is strophic?
400
Non-program music.
What is absolute music?
500
He wrote "Manon Lescaut," "Turandot," and "La Boheme."
Who is Puccini?
500
This shy composer was proud of his Polish heritage, and composed almost exclusively short piano pieces.
Who is Chopin?
500
The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony."
What is the "Dies irae"?
500
This is the form when the same music is repeated for each stanza of a song.
What is strophic?
500
She was a wealthy benefactress who provided Tchaikovsky with an annuity.
Who is Nadezhda von Meck?