! 0 0 BACH FUGUE Tocatta
     A fugue is a piece of music
   in which short melodies are
   introduced and very cleverly
   repeated over and over by
   other parts.
! 0 1 BACH MINUET
     Anna Magdalena, Bach's
   second wife (16 years younger
   than him!), was a good singer
   and was learning to play the
   clavier.
! 0 2 BACH AIR
      Bach would have written
  orchestral music like this for
  his boss, Duke Leopold, and his
  friends to listen to in the
  evening.
! 0 3 BACH SHEEP
      This cantata is like a
   short play created for the
   enjoyment of Duke Christian
   of Saxe-Weissenfels after
   coming back from a hunting
       party on his birthday.
! 0 4 BACH FUGUE
      The word "fugue" literally
    means "flight".
! 1 0 BEETHOVEN PATHETIQUE SONATA  -- Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827
          A sonata is a group of
       pieces (usually three-
       fast, slow, fast) called
       "movements", which go
       together to make a set.
! 1 1 BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY #5
      Beethoven's mood at this
   time in his life was very dark
   because he knew that he soon
   would be stone deaf.
! 1 2 BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY #9
       This theme is sung by a
  choir- which is very rare in
  symphonies.  Beethoven worked
  on this melody, off and on, for
  over thirty years!
! 1 3 BEETHOVEN MOONLIGHT SONATA
     This sonata was dedicated
   to the 17 year old Giulietta
 Guicciardi, one of Beethoven's
 piano students.
! 2 0 BRAHMS HUNGARIAN DANCE #5 -- Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897
     The Hungarian Dances were
   written for two players at
   the same piano.
! 2 1 BRAHMS LULLABY -- Wiegenlied, Op.49, No.4, 1868
     Wiegenlied means "Cradle
   Song"- this is the famous
   "Brahms' Lullaby".  Although
   he was never married, Brahms
   had a real soft spot for
     little children.
! 2 2 BRAHMS -- Rhapsody in b minor, Op.79, No.1, 1879
     This is the middle section
   of an otherwise loud and
   dramatic piece.  Again Brahms
   shows his love for gentle,
   lovely lullabies.
! 2 3 BRAHMS WALTZ -- Waltz in A-flat major, Op.39, No.15
     Brahms' piano music is
  oddly voiced and thick.  Maybe
  it was because he spent
  several years as a young man
  playing by ear in dance halls
     to make money.
! 3 0 CHOPIN -- Waltz in c-sharp minor, Op.64, No.2, 1846
     Chopin was born in Poland,
   but moved to Paris where he
   wrote pieces like this waltz,
   which is a Viennese dance.
! 3 1 CHOPIN -- Fantasie-Impromptu, Op.66, 1835
      For some reason, Chopin
   never had this piece
  published during his lifetime.
  In 1919 it was made into a song
  for a broadway musical.
! 3 2 CHOPIN -- Nocturne, Op.9, No.2, 1830
      Chopin didn't write the
  first Nocturnes (that was the
 Irish composer John Field), but
 he did write the finest ones.
 The term nocturne just means
     "night music".
! 3 3 CHOPIN -- Polonaise, Op.53, 1842
     Most composers write for a
   variety of instruments over
   their career, but Chopin
   wrote only piano music, I
   guess because he was a great
      pianist.
! 4 0 DEBUSSY -- Preludes, Book I: ...Les collines d'Anacapri, 1910
      This happy piece is meant
   to put us in mind of the sunny
   hills of Capri.  DeBussy liked
   to write music about excotic
   places, though he often had
      never been there himself.
! 4 1 DEBUSSY -- Preludes, Book I: ...La fille aux cheveux de lin, 1909
      DeBussy's piano preludes
  are pieces inspired by a mood,
  or image, which is given in the
  title.  This title comes from
  a poem about a girl with
      beautiful flaxen hair.
! 4 2 DEBUSSY -- Suite Bergamesque: Claire de lune, 1890
      Moonlight is the idea
    which inspired this music.
    This is one of those famous
    pieces that everyone loves
    but can't remember the title
       or composer.
! 5 0 GERSHWIN -- "Bess, You Is My Woman"
       This is a love duet from
     the opera "Porgy and Bess".
     Gershwin wrote many
     famous popular songs as
     well as concert music.
! 5 1 GERSHWIN -- Preludes for piano, No.3, 1926
      Gershwin played these
   preludes in public for the
  first time in 1926 at the Hotel
  Roosevelt, New York.
! 5 2 GERSHWIN -- American In Paris, 1928
     Gershwin actually wrote
   this piece while in Paris.
   This excerpt represents
   Gerwin's musical view of
   homesickness.
! 6 0 MOZART -- Piano Sonata in A major: Rondo "Alla turca", K.331
     This tune is what Mozart
   thought Turkish music would
   sound like.
! 6 1 MOZART -- Concerto No.4 for Horn and Orchesta: Rondo, K.495,  1786
      Mozart wrote this
   concerto for his good friend
   Ignaz Leutgeb, who, apart
   from being a good French horn
   player, kept a cheese shop
      in Vienna.
! 6 2 MOZART -- Sonatina
    Like the Bach Minuet, this
   piece was written to
   teach piano students.
! 6 3 MOZART -- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro, K.525,  1787
     The title of this serenade
   for strings means "a little
   night music".
! 7 0 SOUSA -- The Stars and Stripes Forever
     I can never listen to this
   great march without thinking
  of the silly words: "Oh be kind
 to your fine feathered friends,
  for a duck may be somebody's
      mother."
! 7 1 SOUSA -- Semper Fidelis, 1888
      This is the official march
   which bears as its title the
   official motto of the Marine
   Corps: "Ever Faithful".
! 7 2 SOUSA -- Washington Post
     Sousa was a Marine and the
   leader of the Marine band for
   most of his career. Many of
   the marches he composed for
   his band to play are familiar
      to just about everyone.
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