MUSIC 3621 Oxford Midterm Review

Opus

A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works

Sacrificial Dance

In I. Stravinski’s “The Rite of Spring”, The Chosen One dances to death in the presence of the old men, in the great "Sacrificial Dance".

Theme and variations

Nadezhda von Meck

Concertmaster

Iberian Peninsula

Cadenza

Encore

Concerto

Movements

Walt Whitman

Thomas Hampson

Angélica Negrón

Kurt Weill

Nadezhda von Meck

Romanticism

Primitivism

Virtuosic

Ballet

Sonata allegro

Palau de la Música Catalana

Concert hall in Barcelona, Spain. Location of first concert watched for the class.

Performed S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30 and I. Stravinski: The Rite of Spring

Conductor

Franz Schubert Filharmonia

The Franz Schubert Filharmonia is the resident orchestra of El Vendrell, the hometown of Pablo Casals (ca. 65 km SW) one of the most important, influential, and essential musicians of the 20th century

“Gebrauchsmusik”

Andalusia / Capital of Andalusia

Autonomous region in Spain, Andalusian capital of Seville, musical culture, traditional folkways

Catalonia / Capital of Catalonia

Autonomous region in Spain, Catalonian capital of Barcelona, secular architecture, maritime industry

Anna Fedorova

Ukrainian pianist who performed S. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30 at our Barcelona concert

A typical orchestra seating

Cyclical form

The Rite of Spring

Le Sacre du printemps

Sergei Diaghilev

Vaslav Nijinsky

Ballets Russes

Nicholas Roerich

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris)