Download Music Chart - Midnight Swan

Music Chart
Piece
Composer
Period
Genre
Turandot
"Nessun Dorma"
Tosca
"Recondita Armonia"
Respect
Puccini
[Italian]
Puccini
[Italian]
Romantic
Big Girls Don't Cry and
Walk Like a Man
Tell Him
20th Century
Opera
Aria
Opera
Aria
Pop/Rock
(gospel style)
Pop/Rock
20th Century
Pop/Rock
In the Jungle
20th Century
Pop/Rock
I Get Around and
Barbara Ann
Come Ye Sons of Art
The Magic Flute
(Die Zauberflöte)
"Revenge Aria"
(Die Holle Rache)
Digital mix of
the castrati sound
Gregorian chant
20th Century
Pop/Rock
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
m, G major
I, allegro
Die Walküre
Ride of the Valkyries
Romantic
20th Century
Henry Purcell Baroque
Mozart
Classical
[Austrian]
Baroque
Form
Musical Characteristics
sung by Pavarotti (lyric tenor)
exoticism
sung by Domingo (spinto tenor)
Aretha Franklin (alto-soprano)
Opera
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons [American]
(falsetto used)
Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand duet [American]
(shows a contrast betw. timbre and charisma)
The Tokens [American]
(contrast betw. a male bass and a female soprano)
The Beach Boys [American]
(falsetto used)
[British] (sung by a countertenor, and a chorus)
high notes, extreme range, mellismas
Aria
"Queen of the Night" singer–coloratura soprano
Opera
Oral Tradition Middle Ages
Chant
Mozart
[Austrian]
Classical
Serenade
R. Wagner
[German]
Romantic
Opera
Farinelli (long breath, coloratura singing, high notes)
mix between a mezzosoprano and a countertenor
codified by the monks after Pope Gregory's order
monophonic, mellismatic
Sonata Allegro homophonic; exposition: theme 1 (closing ideas 2x),
modulating bridge, theme 2 (closing ideas 2x)
brass constant; uses modulations (most are prepared)
Piece
Composer
Genre
Form
Musical Characteristics
Canon in D
J. Pachelbel
Baroque
[N. German]
J.S. Bach
Baroque
Canon
Canon
polyphony; ground bass
Fugue
Fugue
piccardy third to show contrast; pipe organ used
J.S. Bach
Baroque
Suite and Air Binary (AB)
(B repeats)
Toccata and Fugue
in D minor
Brandenburg Concerto
#2 in F major
I, allegro
Water Music Suite in D
major – "Alla Hornpipe"
Messiah
"Hallelujah Chorus"
J.S. Bach
Baroque
J.S. Bach
Baroque
Toccata and
Fugue
Concerto
Grosso
Toccata and
Fugue
Ritor-nello
G.F. Handel
Baroque
[N. German]
G.F. Handel
Baroque
Suite
Ternary (ABA)
Comfort Ye
Four Seasons
"Spring"
I, allegro
G.F. Handel
A. Vivaldi
[Venice]
Aria
Concerto
"Little Fugue"
in G minor
"Air" on the G string from
Orchestral Suite #3
Period
Baroque
Baroque
Oratorio and ThroughChorus
composed
Ritor-nello
polyphonic; moderate tempo & dynamic; constant
modulation; driving beat & rhythm; non-symmetrical;
music never stops (constant expansion)
written for pipe organ; developments occur between
statements of the subject in the exposition
concertino: violin, oboe, flute, trumpet; uses modulations,
sequences; polyphonic texture; fast-slow-fast movement;
alternation between tutti and concertino
uses brass (including the french horn); B is contrasting in
key to A; A has a homophonic texture
homophonic opening for unity & strength, monophonic for
one God, polyphonic to build tension; terraced dynamics;
inverted pedal point when building to the climax; pause
before the final cadence to build suspense; word painting
word painting; exalted:huge mellisma with coloratura writing
symbols: trills to represent birds, water and stream,
thunder and lightning, dance; mostly homophonic; all
strings; programmatic
Piece
Composer
Period
Genre
Form
Musical Characteristics
Symphony #94 in G major
"Surprise"
II. andante
Trumpet Concerto
in E flat major
III. Finale Allegro
Die Schöpfung
"The Creation"
"The Heavens Are Telling
the Glory of God"
Eine Kleine Nactmusik
I. allegro
III. minuetto allegro
Symphony #40 in G major
I. molto allegro
III. minuetto allegro
IV. allegro assai
F.J. Haydn
Classical
Symphony
Theme &
Variation
4 variations, 2-3 bridges, surprise: fortisimo
chord, use of terraced dynamics
F.J. Haydn
Classical
Concerto
(Sonata) Rondo polyphony, dialogue, trumpet timbre: bright and clear
F.J. Haydn
Classical
Oratorio and
Chorus
Mozart
Classical
Serenade
Sonata Allegro I) modulatory sequence, written for a party, 2 contrasting themes
Symphony
ABA
new idea in a different key with a new affect
Sonata Allegro I) "I'm not Bach, I'm not Brahms, I am Mozart," crescendo,
Piano Concerto #20
in D major
I. allegro
Symphony #5 in C major
I. allegro con brio
Mozart
Classical
Piano
Concerto
Beethoven
Bridge from
Classical to
Romantic
Symphony
Symphony #6 in F major
Beethoven
Program
Symphony
Symphony #9 in D minor
IV. presto; allegro assai
Beethoven
Bridge from
Classical to
Romantic
Bridge from
Classical to
Romantic
fugal, polyphonic, solo/soloists, quartet chorus
III) light-hearted, minuet and trio, B is a
Mozart
Classical
Choral
Symphony
1st theme in minor, 2nd theme in major, clarinet soloist
III) dark and heavy, foreshadows romanticism, scherzo (joke)
IV) "Mozart's in the closet, let him out,
let him out, let him out," rocket theme
Sonata Allegro piano cadenza written by Beethoven
I) 4 themes, angry, emotionally controlled,
more expressiveness, double exposition
Sonata Allegro 1st theme–four note motif repeated
2nd theme–motif repeated again but inverted for bass, use
of brass to introduce the theme, crescendo part of the form
recapitulation–solo oboe unexpected
coda–becomes a development, use of major in the 2nd theme
5 movements; movements III, IV, and V all run back to back
III–merry gathering of country folk, IV–thunderstorm,
V–shephard's song, glad and grateful feelings after the storm
"Ode to Joy" poem by Schiller, theme is brotherhood of man
IV) recitative pattens in the low strings, begins with dissonant
chord, then soft w/ low strings, then explosions of the earlier
dissonant cord
Piece
Composer
Period
Genre
Symphony #8 in B minor
"Unfinished"
I. allegro moderato
Piano Quintet in A major
"Trout" – "Die Forelle"
The Erlking (1815)
"Der Erlkönig"
Schubert
Romantic
Symphony
Symphony #3 in F major
III. poco allegretto
Ein Deutshes Requiem
Form
Musical Characteristics
Sonata Allegro "This is the symphony that Schubert never finished;" 1st thm.
Theme &
Variation
Throughcomposed
in low strings, 2nd in woodwinds, 3rd in strings; expands
the number of themes; changes keys (plays w/ relationships)
one piano, four strings; about falsehood
Schubert
Romantic
Schubert
Romantic
Lied
Brahms
Romantic
Symphony
ABA
Brahms
Romantic
Rondo
Sonata Allegro exoticism, wrote the symphony after traveling to Italy
motif in piano becomes an ostinato (holds music together),
just as important as singer: symbolizes child's heartbeat,
horse's hooves, father's worry; major (Erlking)/minor usage
different ranges for different people; personification of death
"This is Brahms's symphony, it's romantic you see, number 3,
movement 3, ABA, ternary."
in German; sacred, not liturgical; absolute music
Violin Concerto in E minor Mendelssohn
I. allegro molto
appassionato
Italian Symphony #4
Mendelssohn
in A major
I. allegro vivace
"Wedding March"
Mendelssohn
Romantic
Requiem/
Oratorio
Concerto
Romantic
Symphony
Romantic
Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz
IV. March to the Scaffold
Romantic
Incidental
Music
Program
Symphony
Moldeau
Smetana
Romantic
Tone Poem
ABA
Symphony #9 in E minor
"From the New World"
II. Largo
Overture 1812
Dvorák
[Czech]
Romantic
Symphony
ABA
Tchaikovsky
Romantic
[Russian]
RimskyRomantic
Korsakov
[Russian-M5]
Concert
Overture
Tone Poem
Sonata Allegro story of Russians defeating the French and Napoleon; Russian –
Scheherazade
Sonata Allegro no double exposition
written for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (play)
five movements (expanded); uses repeated ideé fixe (fixed
idea) to label people, places, ideas; macabre–bizzare; E flat
clarinet plays the theme; timpani and brass used
"The man who worte the Moldeau and its theme has an unlikely
name of sour cream;" river theme is the architectual lynchpin;
woodwinds, cellos, french horns, peasent wedding (dance),
brass corale, then river disappears in the end
english horn (alto-oboe) solo: "Goin' Home"; glorification
God Preserve the Czar, French – La Marseilles; one mvt.
example of exoticism; story of the Arabian Nights
Piece
Composer
Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky
Romantic
[Russian-M5]
Chopin
Romantic
Verdi
Romantic
"Revolutionary" Etude
Nabucco
"Va, pensiero"
"Dies Irae" from Requiem
"Messa da Requiem"
Die Walküre
"Ride of the Valkyries"
Tosca
"Vissi d'arte"
"Prelude to the Afternoon
of a Faun"
Period
Verdi
Romantic
R. Wagner
[German]
Romantic
Puccini
Romantic
Debussy
[French]
French
Impressionism
Mother Goose Suite
Ravel
"Empress of the Pagodas"
Boléro
Ravel
Genre
Piano Suite
Etude
Opera
Aria
Requiem/
Oratorio
Opera
Opera
Aria
Tone Poem
French
Impressionism
French
Dance
Impressionism
Form
Musical Characteristics
10 mvts. with programatic music; makes a picture in sound – walking through
a promenade a museum
A, A', Coda
about Jews enslaved in Babylon, relates to Italians
Day of Judgement
brass constant; uses lietmotif repeated througout the Ring
Cycle, tare in the orchestra rather than sung; uses modulations
(most are prepared)
sung mainly by the character Tosca, a spinto soprano
ABA
use of chromatic scale (half-steps) to create an exotic feeling;
flute solo; lightness & "airyness" in texture; individual
instruments highlighted; fluidity & lack of accents; sensuality
exoticism (Asian influence)
ostinato; rhythmic, steady beat; 1 instrument featured at once
Piece
Composer
Period
Genre
Rite of Spring
"Le Sacre du Printemps"
Stravinsky
[Russian]
20th Century
Ballet
Five Pieces for Orchestra
Variation for Orchestra
Rhapsody in Blue
Schoenberg
Schoenberg
Gershwin
20th Century
20th Century
20th Century
"Hoedown" from Rodeo
Adagio for Strings
Copland
Barber
20th Century
20th Century
Short Ride in a
Fast Machine
Adams
20th Century
Form
Musical Characteristics
2 big sections 2 parts: Adortaion of the Earth, and The Sacrifice; starts with a
bassoon solo in the high range; strings=drums (percussive);
mixed meters (constant changes); harmonic choices: polytonal,
buliding of chords
Atonal
Serialism
Piano
Concerto
Ballet
twelve tone row
aspects of jazz: use of improvisation, scatting; clarinet opening
Throughcomposed
Minimalism
squaredance
piece for strings; neo-romantic; one movement
characterized by a steady beat; clear tonality & repetition of
short melodic patterns; dynamic, texture, and harmony stay
constant; creates a trancelike state
rasting themes
s an unlikely
modulations