The complete idiot's guide to classical music (75 page)

Scheidt, Samuel

scherzos

Schickele, Peter

Schlittenfahrt
(Leopold Mozart)

Schoenberg, Arnold

Schubert, Franz

Schuman, William

Schumann

Clara

Robert

scores

key signatures

measures

tonal center

Scriabin

Segovia, Andres

selecting stereo equipment

septets

serenade

Serkin, Peter

sharps (scale)

Shaw, Robert

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Sibelius, Jean

Siegfried
(Wagner)

Sills, Beverly

singers

female

groups

duets

ensembles

male

Singspiels

sitar

Slatkin, Leonard

sleeping, concert hall etiquette

snare drums

Society for Private Performances

solos

Solti, Sir George

sonatas

Baroque

development

exposition

minuets

recapitulation

scherzos

sopranos

sound systems, selecting

Spohr, Ludwid

staccato

Stamitz, Johann

stereo equipment, selecting

Stern, Isaac

Stowkowski, Leopold

Stradivari, Antonio

Strauss, Johann

Strauss, Richard

Stravinksy, Igor

string bass,
see
double bass

string instruments

structural guidelines, musical eras

Sturm und drang

styles of pianists

suite

Sullivan, Arthur

see also
Gilbert and Sullivan

Sutherland, Joan

symphonic poem

symphony orchestras

combining instruments

concertmasters

conductors

instruments

diversity

electronic

syncopation

synthesizers

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talking, concert hall etiquette

Tannhauser
(Wagner)

Tartini, Giuseppe

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Telemann, Georg Philipp

television

tempo

beat

rhythm

syncopation

tempo markings

tenors

terminology

texture

enriching with melody

Thalberg, Sigismond

The Age of Anxiety

The Trout
(Schubert)

themes

melodies

opera, leitmotifs

variations

theremin

Thomas, Michael Tilson

Thomson, Virgil

compositions

Three Tenors

ticket prices
ref-1

timbre,
ref-1

timpani,
see
kettledrums

Tiomkin, Dimitri

toccata

tonal center (scales)

tone

clusters

poem

see also
symphonic poem

rows

Torelli, Giuseppe

Tosca

Toscanini, Arturo

Toy Symphony
(Leopold Mozart)

trios

piano trios

Tristan and Isolde
(Wagner)

trombones

trumpets

tubas

TV, see television

U-V

Upshaw, Dawn

Van Dam, Jose

Varese, Edgar

variations

venues

Verdi, Giuseppe

vespers

vibrato

victrolas

Vieuxtemps, Henri

viol de pochette

violas

violins

makers

concertos

virtuosos

virginals

virtuosos

organ, Bach, Johann Sebastian

piano

violin

vivace

Vivaldi, Antonio

vocal music

a capella

Anderson, Marian

Bellini, Vincenzo

Bizet, Georges

Catholic Mass, history

chorus

Donizetti, Gaetano

dramatic opera, characters

duets

ensembles

females

Gregorian chants

popularity

hymns

libretto

Lieder

males

mass

motets

opera

Aida

bel canto

Bellini, Vincenzo

Bizet, Georges

Carmen

Das Rheingold

Die Walkure

Die Meistersinger

Donizetti, Gaetano

Fidelio

Gotterdammerung

history

Horne, Marilyn

La Boheme

Lehmann, Lilli

librettos

literary borrowing

Lohengrin

Lucia di Lammermoor

Madame Butterfly

Parsifal

Price, Leontyne

Puccini, Giacomo

Rigoletto

The Ring of the Niebelung

Rossini, Gioacchino

Siegfried

Sills, Beverly

sources

successes and failures

Sutherland, Joan

Tannhauser

themes

Three Tenors

Tosca

Tristan and Isolde

Verdi, Giuseppe

opera buffa

oratorio

psalms

Puccini, Giacomo

Robeson, Paul

Rossini, Gioacchino

sacred music

singers

sopranos

Callas, Maria

Lind, Jenny

Three Tenors

Verdi, Giuseppe

Wagnerian opera

leitmotifs

Melchoir, Lauritz

Nilsson, Birgit

Voight, Deborah

volume

von Dohnanyi, Christoph

von Karajan, Herbert

von Stade, Frederica

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