The complete idiot's guide to classical music (71 page)

comic operas

Gilbert and Sullivan

compositions

Offenbach, Jacques

compositions

operettas

plots

The Barber of Seville

Daughter of the Regiment

Don Pasquale

Falstaff

Gianni Schicchi

The Marriage of Figaro

Strauss, Johann

compositions

commercial radio stations

compact discs,
see
CDs

comparing opera vs. opera buffa

composers

Adams, John

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Barber, Samuel

Bartok, Bela

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Bellini, Vincenzo

Berlioz, Hector

Bernstein, Leonard

Bizet, Georges

Brahms, Johannes

Chopin, Frederic

Copland, Aaron

Corelli, Arcangelo

Cowell, Henry

tone clusters

Debussy, Claude

Donizetti, Gaetano

Dvorak, Antonin

Faure, Gabriel

Gershwin, George

Glass, Philip

Grieg, Edvard

Handel, George Frederic

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Henry Purcell

Hildegard of Bingen

Hindemith

Holst, Gustav

Ives, Charles

Khatchaturian, Aram

Liszt, Franz

Lully, Jeane-Baptiste

Mahler, Gustav

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Mendelssohn, Felix

Monn, Georg Mathias

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

compositions

North, Alex

Offenbach, Jacques

Paganini, Niccolo

compositions

Duetto Amoroso

Prokofiev, Sergei

Puccini, Giacomo, compositions

Purcell, Henry

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Ravel, Maurice

Reich, Steve

Reiner, Fritz

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Rossini, Gioacchino, compositions

Rozsa, Miklos

Scarlatti, Domenico

Schoenberg, Arnold

12 Tones

compositions

Schubert, Franz Peter

Schuman, William

Schumann, Robert

Scriabin

Prometheus,
ref-1

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Sibelius, Jean

Spohr, Ludwid

Stamitz, Johann

Strauss, Johann

Strauss, Richard

Stravinsky, Igor

Tartini, Giuseppe

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Thomson, Virgil

Tiomkin, Dimitri

Torelli, Giuseppe

Verdi, Giuseppe

Vivaldi, Antonio

Wagner, Richard

Weber, Karl Maria von

Williams, John

Williams, Vaughan

women

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Schumann, Clara

Yradier, Sebastian

composers (opera)

Bellini, Vincenzo

Bizet, Georges

Donizetti, Gaetano

Gilbert and Sullivan

compositions

Offenbach, Jacques

compositions

Puccini, Giacomo

Rossini, Gioacchino

Strauss, Johann

compositions

Verdi, Giuseppe

compositions

Adams, John

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Bellini, Vincenzo

Berlioz, Hector

Bernstein, Leonard

Bizet, Georges

Brahms, Johannes

Chopin, Frederic

coda

concertos

concerto grosso

movements

Copland, Aaron

Cowell, Henry

Debussy, Claude

Donizetti, Gaetano

Gershwin, George

Glass, Philip

Handel

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Ives, Charles

Khatchaturian, Aram

Mahler, Gustav

Mendelssohn, Felix

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Prokofiev, Sergei

Puccini, Giacomo

Reich, Steve

Rossini, Gioacchino

Scarlatti

Schoenberg, Arnold

Schubert, Franz Peter

Schuman, William

Schumann, Robert

Shostakovich, Dmitri

sonatas

minuets

scherzos

Strauss, Richard

Stravinsky, Igor

symphonies

minuets

rondos

scherzos

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Thomson, Virgil

Verdi, Giuseppe

Vivaldi, Antonio

Weber, Karl Maria von

Williams, Vaughan

concert halls

accessibility

attire

courtesy

etiquette

ticket prices

concertmasters

concerto grosso

concertos

concerto grosso

movements

concerts

attending

outdoor

conductors

Abbado, Claudio

American

Ashkenazy, Vladimir

Barenboim, Daniel

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Bernstein, Leonard

Davis, Sir Colin

Dutoit, Charles

Harnoncourt, Nikolaus

Hogwood, Christopher

Jarve, Neeme

Levine, James

Litton, Andrew

Marriner, Sir Neville

Masur, Kurt

Mehta, Zubin

Mendelssohn, Felix

Muti, Riccardo

Neary, Martin

Ozawa, Seiji

podiums

Rattle, Simon

Rodzinski, Artur

Salonen, Esa-Pekka

Shaw, Robert

Slatkin, Leonard

Solti, Sir Georg

Stowkowski, Leopold

Thomas, Michael Tilson

Toscanini, Arturo

von Dohnanyi, Christoph

von Karajan, Herbert

consonance

see also
harmony

contrabass,
see
double bass

contrabassoons

contrapuntal

Copland, Aaron

compositions

Corelli, Arcangelo

coughing, concert hall

etiquette

counter-tenors