The complete idiot's guide to classical music (74 page)

Gotterdammerung

Lohengrin

Parsifal

The Ring of the Niebelung

Siegfried

Tannhauser

Tristan and Isolde

Fidelio

history

La Boheme

Lehmann, Lilli

librettos

literary borrowing

Lucia di Lammermoor

Madame Butterfly

Puccini, Giacomo

compositions

Rigoletto

Rossini, Gioacchino

compositions

singers

Anderson, June

Anderson, Marian,

Bartoli, Cecilia

Callas, Maria

Caruso, Enrico

Chernov, Vladimir,

Freni, Mirella

Gruberova, Edita

Hadley, Jerry

Hampson, Thomas

Heppner, Ben

Horne, Marilyn

Leiferkus, Sergei

Lind, Jenny

McMillan, Kevin

Merritt, Chris

Millo, Aprile

Milnes, Sherrill

Morris, James

Norman, Jessye

Patti, Adelina

Plishka, Paul

Price, Leontyne

Ramey, Samuel

Sills, Beverly

Sutherland, Joan

Upshaw, Dawn

Van Dam, Jose

Voight, Deborah

Von Stade, Frederica

Zajick, Dolora

sources

successes and failures

themes

Three Tenors

Carreras, Jose

Domingo, Placido

Pavarotti, Luciano

Tosca

Verdi, Giuseppe

Wagner

Melchoir, Lauritz

Nilsson, Birgit

Wagnerian

leitmotifs

orchestration

opera buffa

Gilbert and Sullivan

compositions

Offenbach, Jacques

compositions

operettas

plots

Daughter of the Regiment

Don Pasquale

Falstaff

Gianni Schicchi

The Barber of Seville

The Marriage of Figaro

Strauss, Johann

opera houses

tickets prices

operetta

oratorio

orchestras

concertmasters

conductors

podiums

diversity

electronic

instruments

texture

timbre

Ordinary (Mass)

organs

outdoor concerts

overture

Ozawa, Seiji

P

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

Paganini, Niccolo

compositions

Parsifal
(Wagner)

Pastorale

Patti, Adelina

Pavarotti, Luciano

Perahia, Murray

percussion,
ref-1
,
ref-2
,
ref-3

Perlman, Itzhak

phonograph

phrases

pianissimo

pianists

pianos

giraffe piano

tone clusters

trios

virtuosos

Alkan

de Pachmann, Vladimir

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

Horowitz, Vladimir

Liszt, Franz

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Rosenthal, Moriz

Rubinstein, Arthur

Thalberg, Sigismond

piccolos

Pires, Maria Joao

pitch

pizzicato

plainchant,
see
chants

plainsong,
see
chants

Plishka, Paul

podiums

“Poem of Ecstacy,”
ref-1

polyphony

Ponselle, Rosa

portative organ

Pratt, Awadigan

premature applause

Prestissimo

Presto

Price, Leontyne

prima donnas

Callas, Maria

Lind, Jenny

Patti, Adelina

Prokofiev, Sergei

Prometheus

Proper (mass)

psalms

Puccini, Giacomo

Purcell, Henry

Q

quadraladeral triangles

quartets

Mozart

quintets

R

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

radio

Ramey, Samuel

Rammel, Hal

Rampal, Jean-Pierre

Rattle, Simon

Ravel, Maurice

recapitulation

receivers, selecting

recognizing classical music

recordings

CDs

collecting

see also LPs; stereo equipment

records

reeds

Reich, Steve

Reiner, Fritz

Requiem

rhythm,
ref-1
,
ref-2
,
ref-3

Rhythmicana

Rhythmicon

Richter, Sviatoslav

Rigoletto

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

compositions

The Ring of the Niebelung
(Wagner)

Ring Cycle

Robeson, Paul

Rodzinski, Artur

Rolling Stones

Romantic composers

Berlioz, Hector

Brahms, Johannes

Chopin, Frederic

Cowell, Henry

tone clusters

Debussy, Claude

Ives, Charles

Mahler, Gustav

Schoenberg, Arnold

compositions

Schumann, Robert

Strauss, Richard

Stravinsky, Igor

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

compositions

Williams, Vaughan

compositions

rondos

Rosenthal, Moriz

Rossini, Gioacchino

roulade

Rozsa, Miklos

Rubinstein, Arthur

S

sackbuts

sacred music

Gregorian chants

hymns

Mass

motets

oratorio

psalms

Salonen, Esa-Pekka

Sanctus

saxophones

scale

Scarlatti, Domenico