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Late romantic composers
Late romantic composers
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10/27/2021

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Mahler Symphony Subtitle
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Symphony of A Thousand
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Which Orchestra did Mahler conduct in the states?
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New York Philharmonic
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Which conductor revived Mahler's music in the 1960's?
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Bernstein
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Italian Songbook and Spanish Songbook composer?
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Wolf
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Which term did Strauss do use instead of symphonic poem?
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Tone Poem
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Salome Composer and plot
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Richard Strauss
Woman wants the head of John the Baptist and oh boy does she get it.
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Sprach Zarathustra main idea
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Based on work by Nietzche. About evolution and possible future evolution of man (Ubermensch). Opens with sunrise.
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Ubermensche vs. Human in Sprach zarathustra
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Human/Nature is C, lower notes
Ubermensche/ideal is B, higher notes
B is close to C yet far
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Don Quixote composer
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Strauss. Used strings to sound like sheep
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Strauss second period
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Pulled back, much more like Mozart
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Don Quixote author
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Cervantes
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Mahler's symphonies 2-4 are based on which song cycle?
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Das Knaben Wunderhorn (Youth’s Magic Horn)
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Strauss wrote 7 operas based on libretti by
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Hugo Von Hoffmansthal
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Who's play was Salome based on?
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Oscar Wilde
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Elektra composer and author of original play
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Richard Strauss. Sophocles
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Metamorphasen
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Composed by straus, study for 23 strings
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Italian serenade for strings composer
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Hugo Wolf
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Which Strauss Opera begins his 2nd period?
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Der RosenKavalier
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Mahler work based on the Chinese Flute
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Das Lied Von Der Erde
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Wolf's best genre
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Song
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# of Bruckner numbered and unnumbered symphonies
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9 and 2
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Bruckner Symphony 4 subtitle
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The Romantic
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Bach's influence on Bruckner's symphonies
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Chorales in Slow Movements
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Beethoven influence on Bruckner's symphonies
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Opening of Beethoven’s 9th, growing out of nothing
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Schubert Influence on Bruckner's symphonies
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Extremely Short Transitions
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Wagner's influence on Bruckner's symphonies
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length of the works
harmonic language
sequential repetitions of entire passages
and the huge size of the orchestra
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Gesamtskunstwerk for Mahler?
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Symphony
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What genre is Also Sprach zarathustra
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Tone Poem
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Theme from Also Sprach Zarathurstra grows from what?
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Overtone series
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Which section of Also Sprach Zarathurstra uses a 12 tone fugal subject?
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Of Science
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Which Mahler Symphony uses text from Also Sprach Zarathurstra
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