History 3 Exam 1

Charles Burney

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

texted music

instrumental music

“A General History of Music”

Immanuel Kant

“Critique of Judgement”

profundity contract

george bridgetower

E.T.A Hoffman

poetic ideas

deep personal contemplation

primal gesture

monumentality

individualization of the artwork

dramatic coherence

generic expression

individual expression

Theater an der Wien

Gioachino Rossini

“The Great Renunciation”

Musical meaning

musical performance

bel canto opera

“beautiful

gaetano donizetti

vincenzo bellini

giuseppe verdi

(1813-1901)

cantabile

versi lirici, rhymed, regular syllable count

cabaletta

versi lirici, rhymed, faster more animated closing section

Pietro Metastasio

“Rossinian” crescendos

versi sciolti

unrhymed, irregular line engths (mixture of 7 and 11 syllable lines)

versi lirici

rhymed lines with regular syllable count (all 6 syllable or all 10 syllable lines for example)

volksgeist

national spirit of germany. German nationalism

tempo di mezzo

middle section or interlude, often sounds as if it is interrupting the action with the entry of a third party

scena

opening portion of recitative typically featuring versi sciolti with kinetic introductory of dramatic material

Richard Wagner

(1813-1883)

Marian Anderson

(1897-1993) contralto who broke the color barrier at the Metropolitan Opera playing Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera

Leontyne Price

(1927-present) first Black leading performer at the Metropolitan Opera.

Simon Estes

(1938- present) first Black man to sing a leading role at Bayreuth

Jessye Norman

(1945-2019) Black woman featured in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Arthur Schopenhauer

(1788-1860)

Weber apotheosis

tonic return of secondary theme in the recapitulation is forte or fortissimo

Innigkeit

inwardness or poignant intimacy of feeling (key to the romantic era)

tinta

identifying color or recurring musical shape (mini theme) but not representing a feeling rather than a concrete thing