MUSIC 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Col Legno, Harriet Smithson, Extended Technique
serenade: genre of Eine kleine Nachtmusik
“double exposition” : modified sonata form in Classical-era concerto (1st expo for tutti, 2nd for
solist & tutti)
Don Giovanni
: Mozart’s opera
“Heiligenstadt Testament”: Beethoven’s testament to his struggle with “fate.”
“the heroic period”: Beethoven’s “middle period” and heroic, heaven-storming style.
Eroica Symphony
: Beethoven’s third symphony and the first one composed in the heroic
style; originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte as the protector of French Revolutionary
ideals.
Beethovenian process: see Symphony No. 5; thematic reminiscence and “development” of
thematic material unfolding through FOUR movements.
“Fate Motive”: da-da-da-DA: all movements of Symphony No. 5
The “Choral” Symphony
: Beethoven’s final (9th) symphony: combines the symphonic orchestral
and vocal realms.
“Ode to Joy”: Schiller’s poem set by Beethoven in the final movement of the “Choral
Symphony”
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