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Music Appriciation
Classical music
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10/24/2011

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Bedrich Smetana
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Composer. Best known for "The Moldau" and the opera "the bartered Bride"
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Concert Overature
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One-movement, self-contained musical work intended for performance in the concert hall.
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Peter llyich Tchaikovsky
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prolific composer best known for his last three symphonies (no.4,5,and 6, orchestral works including Romeo and Juliet,three ballets-Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty,and the Nutcracker, and eleven operas including Queen of Spades
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Incidental Music
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Music written to accompany a play.
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Fanny Menndelsohn Hensel
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Johannes Brahms
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Piano, four hands
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Two players playing a piano at the same time.
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Triplet
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Three notes fitted into the time in which only two of those notes would normally fit.
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Gustav Mahler
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Anton Bruckner
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Antonin Dvorak
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Bel Canto
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"Beautiful song." A vocal technique emphasizing beauty and purity of tone and agility on executing ornamental details.
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Giacomo Puccini
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Guiseppe Verdi
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Verismo
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"Realism." An italian operatic point of view favoring realistic subjects taken from everyday, often lower class, life.
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Leitmotif
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"Leading motive." A musical motive representing a particular charactor, object,idea or emotional state. Used espesially in Richard Wagners operas.
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Music Drama
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Richard Wagners term for his operas.
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Richard Wagner
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Claude Debussy
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Impressionism
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A late nineteenth century artistic movement that sought to capture the visual impression rather than the literal reality of the subject. Also, in music, a style belonging primarily to Debussy, characterized by an emphasis on mood and atmosphere, sensuos tone colors, elegance, and beauty of sound.
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Symbolism
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A subtle French poetic style from the late nineteenth century that stressed the sound and color of the words and suggested rather than clearly outlined the maening or story behind the text.
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Maurice Ravel
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Glissando
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A rapid sliding up or down the scale.
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Neoclassism
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In music of the early twentieth century, the philosophy that musical composition should be approached with objectivity and restraint. Neoclassical composers were attracted to the textures and forms of the Baroque and Classical periods.
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Primitivism
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Igor Stravinsky
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Bela Bartok
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Alban Berg
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Anton Webern
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Atonal
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Avant-garde
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Expressionism
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Serialism
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Sprechstimme
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Twelve Tone
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