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33 Cards in this Set
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String Quartet in C Major - Movement 2 - Poco adagio cantabile Joseph Haydn |
Era - Classical Style - Homophonic Genre - String quartet His sig - "Kaiser" (Emporer) - in 2nd mov Haydn quotes the melody from God Save Emperor Francis, an anthem he wrote for Emperor Francis II - later use in the German national anthem - part of last set of string quartets Haydn wrote (Op. 76) |
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Don Giovanni - Overture - K257 Wolfgang Mozart |
Era - Classical Style - Genre - Opera Buffa His sig - Based on legend of Don Juan, an erotic adventurer, symbol of independent thinking and action standing in opposition to church and convention (enlightenment), Don Giovanni a young, arrogant, and sexually promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages everyone in the cast until he encounters something he cannot kill. |
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Don Giovanni - Act 1 Scene 1 Wolfgang Mozart |
Era - ClassicalStyle - Genre - Opera Buffa His sig - Based on legend of Don Juan, an erotic adventurer, symbol of independent thinking and action standing in opposition to church and convention (enlightenment), Don Giovanni a young, arrogant, and sexually promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages everyone in the cast until he encounters something he cannot kill. |
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Don Giovanni - Act 2 Scene 5 Wolfgang Mozart |
Era - ClassicalStyle - Genre - Opera Buffa His sig - Based on legend of Don Juan, an erotic adventurer, symbol of independent thinking and action standing in opposition to church and convention (enlightenment), Don Giovanni a young, arrogant, and sexually promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages everyone in the cast until he encounters something he cannot kill. |
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Symphony No. 41 in C Major - K551 - 1st Movement - 'Jupiter' Wolfgang Mozart |
Era - Classical Style - Homophonic Genre - Symphony His sig - Last symphony Mozart wrote, longest symphony Mozart wrote, unclear whether it was performed in Mozart's lifetime, last uncommissioned symphony Mozart wrote (idea of "art for art's sake", Mozart used symphonies for self portraits. |
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Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major - 'Eroica' - 3rd Movement Op. 55 Ludwig Van Beethoven |
Era - Classical/early romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Symphony His sig - First time 3 horns were used, transition to Romanticism (subjectivity, drama, conflict, powerful climax, cartharis), finale tune comes from earlier ballet - Creatures of Prometheus (symbol of heroism) |
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Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major - 'Eroica' - 3rd Movement Op. 55 Ludwig Van Beethoven |
Era - Classical/early romanticStyle - HomophonicGenre - SymphonyHis sig - First time 3 horns were used, transition to Romanticism (subjectivity, drama, conflict, powerful climax, cartharis), finale tune comes from earlier ballet - Creatures of Prometheus (symbol of heroism) |
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String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 No. 15 3rd Movement Molto Adagio - "Heiliger Dankgesand" Ludwig Van Beethoven |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - String Quartet His sig - Music as an expression of self, evoking emotions, composed after he fell seriously ill (and recovered), slow movement contains allusions to his illness - initial melody 'Hymn of thanksgiving to the divinity, from a convalescent, in the Lydian mode', contrasting section in 3/4 - 'Feeling new strength' |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture Op. 21 Felix Mendelssohn |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Concert overture His sig - wrote the incidental music 16 years after he wrote the overture, was written as a concert overture not associated with any performance of the play, literal pictorialism using instrumental effects to emulate scampering fairy feet and braying of bottom as an ass, George Grove - maturity in music |
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Die Stadt from 6 Heine songs in the Schwannengesang Franz Schubert |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Song cycle His sig - Singer is in a boat rowing towards the city where he lost the one he loved, it comes foggily into view, written towards the end of his life and published posthumously |
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Der Doppelganger from 6 Heine songs in the Schwannengesang Franz Schubert |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Song cycle His sig - one of Schubert's last pieces, written in the year of his death |
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Symphony Fantastique - Movement 5 (Finale) Hector Berloiz |
Era - Early Romantic Genre - Program Symphony His sig - Berloiz may have composed this while under the influence of drugs, the dance of the witches combined with the Dies irae (Day of anger), aimed to describe the tortured dreams of a sensitive artist in lovesick despair who takes an overdose of opium and becomes haunted by visions of an unattainable woman, one of the first examples of psychedelia in music, composed for over 90 instruments |
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Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 Frederic Chopin |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Ballade His sig - Composed during his early years in Vienna, was a reflection of his loneliness in the city far away from his home in Poland |
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Dichterliebe (No 1-5) Op. 48 Robert Schumann |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Song cycle His sig - Best known song cycle of Schumann's, the poet's love is a hothouse of nuanced responses to the delicate language of flowers, dreams and fairy-tales |
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Aida - Act 3 Giuseppe Verdi |
Era - Romantic Style - Genre - Opera His sig - Aida is held prisoner in Egypt and lies about her identity, now she is a slave of Amneris, the Egyptian King's daughter, an Egyptian General, Radames, is secretly in love with Aida and she with him, exoticism - music flows to next scene, made usual Italian more continuous, slow section of extended aria is cavertina, then interrupted by recitative and followed by cabaletta (fast section), Verdi extends this over entire act |
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Fountains of the Villa d'Este No. 4 from Annees de pelerinage Franz Liszt |
Era - Romantic Style - Homophonic Genre - Piano Suite His sig - Annees de pelerinage refers to Goethe's famous novel of self-realisation, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and especially its sequel Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, the Villa d'Este is in Tivoli near Rome, famous for its beautiful cypresses and fountains |
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Gotterdammerung - Act 3 Scene 3 - Immolation Scene Richard Wagner |
Era - Romantic Style - Genre - Opera His sig - Part four of "The Ring", refers to a prophesied war among various beings and gods that ultimately results in the burning, immersion in water, and renewal of the world, used leitmotifs first (themes to represent certain characters or themes), music as "prime-bearer" of meaning |
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Tristan and Isolde - Prelude to Act 1 Richard Wagner |
Era - Style - Genre - Opera His sig - Irish Princess Isolde is on board a ship from Ireland to Cornwall, as she marries King Marke who governs Cornwall, she is escorted by Tristan, the King's loyalist and his newphew, fundamental force in movement away from Romanticism, influenced Mahler, Debussy, film music, creating a new type of tonality and dramatic musical techniques e.g. harmonic susepnsion |
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Tristan and Isolde - Liebstod - End of Act 3 |
Era - Style - Genre - OperaHis sig - Irish Princess Isolde is on board a ship from Ireland to Cornwall, as she marries King Marke who governs Cornwall, she is escorted by Tristan, the King's loyalist and his newphew, fundamental force in movement away from Romanticism, influenced Mahler, Debussy, film music, creating a new type of tonality and dramatic musical techniques e.g. harmonic susepnsion |
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Double Concerto in A minor - Op. 102 - 1st movement Johannes Brahms |
Era- Romantic Style - Genre - Double concerto His sig - Brahms final work for orchestra, received by the public and critics very poorly as it was very celebral, obstinate and mechanical, rare to have a double concerto, gesture of reconciliation towards his old but estranged friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, after their long friendship had ruptured following Joachim's divorce from his wife Amalie |
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Symphony No. 4 Op. 98 E minor - 1st movement Johannes Brahms |
Era - Romantic Style - Genre - Symphony His sig - last of Brahm's symphonies, movement is in Sonata form although it features unique approaches to development (no repeat of exposition), the "unfinished" |
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Symphony No. 6 in B minor - 3rd movement Tchaikovsky |
Era - Style - Genre - Symphony His sig - Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, Taruskin - suicide theories were stimulated, first performed under the composer's baton only 9 days before his demise, with its lugubrious finale (ending morendo, dying away), depression was the first diagnosis, homosexual tragedy came next |
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1. Padoges from Estampes Claude Debussy |
Era - Impressionist Style - Genre - Solo piano His sig - Evokes images of East Asia, mimics Chinese and Japanese traditional melodies and incorporates hints of Javanese Gamelan percussion |
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2. La Soiree dans Grenade Claude Debussy |
Era - Impressionist Style - Genre - Solo piano His sig - Based on an ancient Breton myth in which a cathedral, submerged underwater off the coast of the Island of Ys, rises up from the Sea on clear mornings when the water is transparent, sounds can be heard of priests chanting, bells chiming, and the organ playing, from across the sea |
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The Rite of Spring - Introduction and Danses des Adolescents Igor Stravinsky |
Era - 1913 Style - Genre - Ballet - His sig - music and choreography was contraversial, performed by Ballet Russes, libretto by Diaghilev |
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Symphony No. 5 - 1st movement Dmitri Shostakovich |
Era - 1937 Style - Genre - Symphony His sig - Turnaround in Shostakovich's career as he was critiqued for being too complex, so he slimmed down his compositional style considerably, less orchestral colouring and smaller breadth of scope |
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Piano Concerto No. 3 - 2nd Movement - Adagio Religioso Bela Bartok |
Era - 1946 Style - Genre - Piano concerto His sig - Bartok died on Sep 26 1845, with the concerto unfinished, the task of completing orchestration of the final 17 measures, drawing from Bartok's notes, was eventually executed by the composer's friend, Tibor Serly, Middle section = Nachtmusik (buzzing strings) |
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Variations for Piano Op. 27 Anton Webern |
Era - 1936 Style - Genre - Solo piano His sig - His only work for solo piano, written at a time when he was being prosecuted by Nazi Germany and couldn't do much else, the piece contains a lot of symmetry e.g. palindromic phrases |
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Sequenza 5 Luciano Berio |
Era - 1966 Trombone Era Style - Genre - Solo trombone His sig - Performer must include both musical and dramatic performance, with actions included as part of the score itself, one of the first pieces to really require the performer to act as part of the performance |
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Dirge from Serenade Op. 31 Benjamin Britten |
Era - 1943 Style - Genre - Song cycle His sig - Composed during World War II at the request of the horn player Dennis Brain, it is a setting of a selection of 6 poems by British poets on the subject of night, including both its calm and its sinister aspects, based on the anonymous Lyke-Wake Dirge from the 15th century |
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Lux Aeterna Gyorgy Ligeti |
Era - 1966 Style - Micropolyphony Genre - 16 part mixed choir His sig - Means "eternal light", famous for its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 200 - A Space Odyssey |
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Dance of Fury for Seven Trumpets from Quartet for the End of Time Olivier Messiaen |
Era - 1940-1 Style - Genre - Quartet His sig - Messiaen wrote in the Preface to the score that the work was inspired by text from the Book of Revelation, composed while he was captured by the Germany army in June 1940 and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A, a prisoner of war camp in Gorlitz, Germany |
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De Profundis - Psalm 130 Arvo Part |
Era - 1980 Style - Genre - Choral composition His sig - A setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for a four-part men's choir, percussion and organ, dedicated to the Austrian composer Gottfried von Einem |
