MUSI 4363: Music in the Romantic Period II: Final Exam: Review Sheet

 The final exam is scheduled Thursday, May 11, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. You will likely not
need the full three hours, but you may take the full time if you arrive on time.
 The exam will cover all of the material listed in the class syllabus, sessions 11 through 14, 16-21,
and the Sullivan part of.
 Please bring a blue book or ruled loose-leaf paper to class with you on May 11.
 Also bring a pen or sharpie to produce dark writing.

Part I: 10 Short Identifications, 8 points each, 80 points altogether

For each short ID, you will be given a name, a term, etc. Possible IDs are marked with hashtags.
For each short ID, you will need to supply the following:
(a) a description, explanation, or identification of the term, name, etc.
(b) a title (1 point)
(c) a genre (1 point) [use only the genres as listed below]
(d) a composer (1 point)
(e) a nationality (1 point)
(f) a decade (1 point)
(g) relevant significant historical information or background (1 point)
(h) relevant stylistic information about the piece (1 point)

Part II: 2 Take-home Essay Questions, each worth 20 points = 40 points

Complete instructions are given in the Take-Home Essay File in Blackboard. Both essays are due
a the time of the exam, 11:00 a.m., May 11.

Part III: 12 Listening Questions, 7 points each, 84 points total)

You will hear 11 recorded musical examples, each approximately 1 minute long.
After each example, you will have approximately 1 minute of silence to complete your answer.
After all the musical examples have been played, they will all be repeated without pause.
For each example, you will need to supply the following:
(a) a title (1 point)
(b) a genre (1 point)
(c) a composer (1 point)
(d) a nationality (1 point)
(e) a decade (1 point)
(f) relevant, significant historical information or background (1 point)
(g) relevant, significant stylistic information (1 point)

All the listening selections for the final exam have been assembled in a Naxos Playlist.
Titles Stravinsky, Igor
Balakirev, Mily #Sultan Suliman
Boris Godunov Bizet, Georges Thurber, Jeanette
Carmen Borodin, Aleksandr Tomášek, Vaclav
Danse macabre
Dargomïhsky, Alexander #Verlaine, Paul
Faust
Dvořák, Antonín #von Meck, Nadezhda
H.M.S. Pinafore
Fauré, Gabriel Wagner, Richard
La Bohème
Franck, César #Ysaÿe, Eugène
La bonne chanson
Gounod, Charles #Ysaÿe, Théophile
Má Vlast
Otello Mussorgsky, Modeste
Overture on Three Russian Puccini, Giacomo
Themes, No. 1 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay Terms
Overture on Three Russian Saint-Saëns, Camille
Themes, No. 2 Smetana, Bedřich #1001 Arabian Nights
Pictures at an Exhibition Sullivan, Arthur absolute music
Rusalka
Tchaikovsky, Peter Aïda
Sheherazade
Slavonic Dance in F Major, Verdi, Giuseppe alcoholism
op. 46, no. 4 *allegory
Sonata for Violin and Piano Nationalities Allgemeiner deutscher
in A Major Musikverein
Symphony No. 2 in B Belgian #Anthology of Russian
Minor Czech (Bohemian) Folksongs
Symphony No. 4 in F
English #apotheosis
Minor, op. 36
Symphony No. 7 in D French #Aria to the Moon
Minor, op. 70 Italian Arioso
The Bartered Bride Russian #Arrigo Boïto
The Miller #atomized motivic texture
Vltava (The Moldau) People #autobiographical program
#ballad
Genres #Baba Yaga ballet on Russian history
#Barabier, Jules bande à Franck
comic opera Brahms, Johannes #bard
concert overture #Carré, Michel Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
lyric drama #Carvalho, Léon Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
lyric fairy tale #Cazalis, Henri begins third above tonic
opera Cui, Cesar begins third below tonic
opéra comique Dimitri bell evocations
operetta Gilbert, W. S. Berlioz’s orchestration treatise
piano four-hands Glinka, Mikhail boulevard theaters
piano suite Hanslick, Eduard cabaletta
Russian opera #Hartmann, Victor Cassio
Russian song Hus, Jan cavatina
song cycle #Ježibaba #character sterotypes
symphonic poem Liszt, Franz chemist
symphonic suite #Merimée, Prosper cholera
symphony Moyse, Emma chorale
violin sonata #Pushkin, Aleksandr circle of fourths
Rubinstein, Anton civil servant
Composers Stasov, Vladimir commune
#condensed recapitulation Iago (Jago) natural rhythms of language
#continuous vibrato imitation of folk materials New German School
Credo Industrial Revolution non-functional harmony
#crude effects intentional ingenue #octatonic (not quite)
cyclical form instrumental drama off-tonic beginning
Cyrillic alphabet intertextual references “one superior intelligence is
czar jealousy needed”[to direct all aspects
Decline of French grand opera Jewel song of composition and
#dedicated to his “best friend” Kamarinskaya as model performance]
#depicts physical motion King of Thule opéra dialogue
Desdemona #Kunstidee orchestration technique
diatonic musical language #ländler #orchestration with melody in
#diatonic purity of minor mode La Scala (Il Teatro alla Scala) own register
#Dies irae quoted and parodied law school orchestration treatise
#Dimitri Leipzig Conservatory ornamental style of folk songs
#domestic scenes alternate with #little fragments of something ostinato
paranoia or other, artfully glued palanquin
#Dorian mode together parallel fifths
Dronesd liturgical chant parallel seventh, ninth, elevents,
Dutiful soldier lyricism and declamation and thirteenth chords
ear-splitting brass fanfares alternate in four sections pedal point
Eastern Orthodox Church local color pentatonicism
#Ecole Niedermeyer London Philharmonic Society #peremenmost’ (tonal
Emphasis of arias long, sustained lines mutability)
#enumerative or series form lowered or natural seventh scale Petrushka
#episodic opera plot degree Phenomenal or acoustic music
#exoticism #lowered sixth scale degree piano postlude
#explode the genre of opéra #Lydian or whole-tone pizzicato scherzo
comique progression #polka
false recapitulation matchmaker #polonaise
#fate vs. dreams medical doctor Prix de Rome
*Faust et Marguerite melodic cells transposed #polonaise vs. waltz
Femme fatale mélodie #Polovtsians (Cumans)
field work melodrama Prague
Flower song mimesis Prague Organ School
#Franco-Belgian School Mimì Prague Revolt
Franco-Prussian War modal mixture #Prince Igor
fugato mode changes prodigy
#furiant #modo di canzona proud, swaggering man
#guardian angel #moguchaya kuchka pseudo- or somewhat leitmotivic
handkerchief #Moldau quotation of folk materials
#harp strikes midnight #Moravia #Rapids of St. Jo
Habsburg Dynasty #movimento di valse recitative
#hemiola #musical symbols rich in #recurrent Promenade
Holy Roman Empire associations #references to opera and ballet
homosexuality narrator #repetitive melodic cells
#hornpipe natural accents of language romance
horns as emblem of hunting natural inflections or intonation Romantic triangle
Hymnus of language
 #rotation of minor thirds spells suicide legend
diminished seventh chord Swedish folksong
(Lisztian tonal plan) #Symbolist movement
#rotational form Swedish national pageant
round dance syllabic text setting
Royal Academy of Music symphony in German-Austrian
Royal Albert Hall tradition
Rudolfo symphony in Italian-French
#Russian minor tradition
sailor syncopated dance music
satire or parody tableau
Scandinavia ternary form
#scherzo in sonata form #The Nightingale
#scherzo and waltz themes #The Terrible Czar
alternate Théèåtre Lyrique
Saint Clothilde thematic transformation (use of
scherzo and avoidance of)
scherzo and waltz conrapuntally three-measure phrases
combined transparent orchestration
Schrekensfanfaren (Horror Tristan und Isolde
fanfares) variations on fanous Russian
#scordatura folk song
Second New England School #verismo
secondary theme in raised vernacular speech
mediant violinist as devil
secondary theme in flat virtuoso organist
submediant #vocalise
sonata-rondo characteristics #Volga River region
#secret patron #Vyšehrad
seventh, ninth, eleventh, waltz
thirteenth chords #water nymph (mermaid)
Shakespeare Western European
Shakespeare’s Othello condescension toward
adaptation of Russia
*Simon Boccanegra working-class family origins
Singspiel #xylophone
#skeletons dancing #yodeling effects
slow introduction
Société nationale de musique
solo violin
sonata form
#sonata form without
development
#sousedská
spoken dialogue
St. Petersburg Conservatory
strophic form
Suez Canal
#suicide attempt