Pergolesi, La Serva Padrona NAWM 93
- Genre: Intermezzoz
- Style: Recitative
- Accompaniment: Basso Continuo
- Style: Aria
- Accompaniment: Orchestra
- Patter and repetition are used for comic affects
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in D Major NAWM 98
- Timbre: Harpsichord
- Form: Binary
- Idioms used: 1. Guitar figurations 2. Maraca Rhythms
CPE Bach, Sonata IV in A Major NAWM 99
- Harmony: Chromatic
- Rhythmic Device: Scotch snaps
- Ornamentation: 1. grace notes 2. appogiatura 3. mordents
Stamitz, Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat Major NAWM 101
- Characteristics: 1.Hammerstrokes 2. Mannheim Crescendo
Chapter 22 Listening Guide
Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 33, No. 2 NAWM 103
- Nickname: The Joke
- (1781)
- Movement: Movement IV
- Form: Rondo -
- Form outline: ABACA Coda
- Timbre: 2 violins, viola, cello
Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 92 in G Major NAWM 104a
- (1789)
- Nickname: The Oxford
- Movement: Movement I
- Form: Sonata Allegro
- Occasion: Awarding of honorary Doctorate from Oxford.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 NAWM 106
- (1786)
- Movement: Mvt. I
- Form: Double exposition sonata form
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni NAWM 107
- Type of opera: dramma giocoso
- Movement: Act I, Scene 1
- What is happening? Leporello is standing guard for his master.
Chapter 23 Listening Guide, Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13
- Nickname: Sonate Pathètique
- Movement: Movement I
- Form: Sonata Allegro
- Irregularities: Return of slow introduction at the end of the exposition and recapitulation.
- Style Period: Early
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13
- Nickname: Sonate Pathètique
- Movement: Movement II
- Form: Rondo ABACA
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 NAWM 108
- Nickname: Sonate Pathètique
- Movement: Movement III
- Form: Sonata Rondo ABACA coda
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, NAWM 109
- Nickname: Eroica
- Why: Meant for Napolean Bonapart, rededicated "Heroic Symphony"
- Movement: Movement I
- Form: Sonata Allegro
- Irregularities: Either three transitions or three dominant key secondary themes in the exposition.
- Horn entrance with the theme seems early before the recapitulation.
- Style Period: Middle
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
- Movement: Movement I
- Form: Sonata Allegro
- Irregularities: Oboe cadenza in recapitulation.
- New theme developed in coda.
- Ends in C Major instead of C Minor.
- Unifying factor: Four-note motive. Knock of fate.
- Style Period: Middle
String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, No. 14, Op. 131. NAWM 110a
- Movement: Movement I
- Form: Fugue
- Irregularities: The answer is in the subdominant instead of the dominant
- Style Period: Late
String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, No. 14, Op. 131. NAWM 110b
- Movement: Movement II
- Form: Ternary or Shortened Sonata Allegro
Chapter 24 Listening Guide
Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade, NAWM111
- through Composed
- constant whir of spinning wheel in piano Gretchen’s agitation
- up and down figuration represents the treadle
- 16ths stop for the memory of Faust’s kiss
Schumann, Im wunderschönen Monat Mai from DichterliebeNAWM113
- song cycle
- Strophic
- poem by Heinrich Heine
- unrequited love
Schumann, Fantasiestücke, “Aufschwung” or "Soaring" NAWM116a
- Characterpiece
- Ternary Form
Chopin - Nocturne in D-flat Major, NAWM118
- Rubato (robbed time)
- Chromatic
- turns, trills, gracenotes
Liszt, Un sospiro “A Sigh” from Trois études de concert NAWM119
- technical etude
- both hands play the melody among running arpeggios
- forces the performer to use the pedal to bring a melody out from the accompaniment
Gottschalk, Souvenir de Porto Rico NAWM120
- Theme and 7 variations
- Use of Afro-Carribean rhythms
- European virtuoso figurations
Chapter 25 Listening Guide
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique
- Movement: IV, Marche au supplice
- Compositional Device: idée fixe
- Genre: First Program Symphony
Movement: V, Witches’ Sabbath (#121)
Compositional Devices:
- Ghosts, witches …
- Distorted idée fixe
- Church Bells
- Dies irae – three times
Felix Mendelssohn, Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Themes:
- Enchanted Forest
- Wood Nymphs
- King Oberon's Court
- Lovers
- Acting Troupe
- Form: Sonata Allegro
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah Genre: Oratorio, (#124)
- Movement: Choral Finale
- Texture: Homorhythmic opening
- 3 Characteristics/Devices:
- Fugal statement
- Imitative Amen
- Contrasts major, minor and chromatic
Chapters 26 & 27 Listening Guide
Gioachino Rossin, Il barbiere di Siviglia (#125)
- Selection: Una voce poco fa
- Genre: Cavatina and Cabaletta
- Technique: rapid scales, turns and free embellishments
- Plot: Rosina vows to refuse marriage to her guardian
Carl Maria von Weber, Der Freischütz, (#126)
- Selection: Act II, Finale, Wolf’s Glen Scene
- Musical genre: Melodrama
- Techniques:
- dim. 7ths represent anxiety and terror
- fear by tremelo, chromaticism, dynamics
- Devil’s huntsmen: horns, choir, tri-tone
Giuseppi Verdi, La traviata. Act III (#127)
- Melody: regular, periodic phrasing, repeated by other singers
- Orchestra: repeated figuration, few pauses
- Plot: Violetta is reunited with her beloved; she is sick and likely to die
Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, (#128)
- Selection: Act I, Scene 5
- Characteristics:
- no aria nor recitative
- orchestral continuity and the voice declaims above it.
Georges Bizet, Carmen, (#129)
- Selection: Act 1, scene 10, Sequidilla and duet
- Characteristics:
- Sequidilla: fast, triple meter, Spanish song
- Accompaniment Imitates guitar
- Phrygian mode hinted
Modest Musorgsky, Boris Godunov (#130)
- Selection: Coronation scene
- Characteristics:
- Similar to Russian folk songs
- Narrow range
- Repetition of short motives
Chapters 28 & 29 Listening
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98, Mvt. IV
- Theme and Variations
- Theme is a Passacaglia and chaconne
Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
- Text Characteristics:
- German non-liturgical text
- meditative
- not specific to any religion
- Compositional Technique:
- Melodic Inversion between orchestra and chorus
Anton Bruckner, Virga Jesse
- Motet
- Characteristics:
- a cappella
- uses text painting
- chromatic harmony
Peter Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 in F minor
- Characteristics:
- Intro: Knock of Fate
- 1st Theme: Depression and despair
- 2nd Theme: Escape from reality
Bedrich Smetana, The Moldau
- symphonic poem
- Themes:
- Two springs
- The river
- Forest hunt
- Peasant wedding
- Moonlight dance
- Rapids of St. John
- Vyšehrad Castle
Richard Strauss, Don Quixote
- Symphonic Poem
- Theme and Variations
- Themes:
- Don Quixote
- Sancho Panza
- Windmill
- Sheep
- fluttertongue
- klangfarbenmelodie