HISTORY OF MUSIC III

Review Sheet for Quiz #1

We will have our first listening quiz in class on Wednesday, September 25. e quiz will ask you to respond to
questions based upon your understanding of three brief recorded excerpts. For each excerpt, I will ask you to identify
the work from which the excerpt is drawn and to answer some additional questions about the work that will draw
directly upon the issues we have discussed in class. Each excerpt will be played twice. All three of the excerpts will be
taken from repertoire covered in class from Monday, September 9 through Monday, September 23.
Below please find a summary of the composers, works, and terms with which I expect you to be familiar. If youve
done the listening, kept up with the reading, and paid attention in class, you should have no problems with the quiz.
Composers
Please know birth and death dates for each
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-35)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Works
For each work listed below, please know the date of composition as provided in brackets below.
Beethoven, Sonata No. 8 in C Minor (Pathtique), Op. 13 (Mvmt. 1) [1798]
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (Eroica), Op. 55 (Mvmt. 1) [1804]
Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (complete) [1808]
Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, Cavatina [1825-26]
Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Overture) [1816]
Rossini, Tancredi, Act I, Scene 5, Oh patria! Di tanti palpiti [1813]
Bellini, Norma, Casta diva [1831]
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, Act III, Scene 2, Mad Scene [1835]
Terms
Know basic definitions for each and be able to relate each of these terms to the repertoire studied. For the individuals listed
here, it is not necessary to know birth and death dates. A general sense of why these individuals are important to the class
will suce.
sublime
organicism (cf. Beethoven)
Heilgenstadt Testament
Count Waldstein
E.T.A. Homan
Beethovens ree Creative Periods
(approximate dates and representative works for each)
Ignaz Schuppanzigh
standard form of a Rossini overture

imbroglio
scena ed aria
cantabile
cabaletta
tempo di mezzo
cavatina
bel canto