The complete idiot's guide to classical music (72 page)

counterpoint

courtesy

concert halls

arriving late

clapping

coughing

sleeping

talking

Cowell, Henry

compositions

tone clusters

credo

crescendo

Cristofori, Bartolommeo

cymbals

D

Das Rheingold
(Wagner)

Daughter of the Regiment

Davis, Sir Colin

de Larrocha, Alicia

de Pachmann, Vladimir

Debussy, Claude

compositions

Devil’s Trill Sonata (Tartini)

diatonics

Die Walkure
(Wagner)

Die Meistersinger
(Wagner)

diminuendo

dissonance

divertimento

Dixtuor
(Enesco)

Domingo, Placido

Don Pasquale

Donizetti, Gaetano

compositions

double

bass

reeds

oboes

stop

dramatic opera

Aida

Carmen

characters

Das Rheingold

Die Walkure

Die Meistersinger

Fidelio

Gotterdammerung

La Boheme

librettos

Lohengrin

Lucia di Lammermoor

Madame Butterfly

Parsifal

Rigoletto

Siegfried

Tannhauser

The Ring of the Niebelung

Tosca

transfiguration

Tristan and Isolde

see also
Wagnerian opera; opera

dramma per musica (drama through music)

dress,
see
attire

duets

Duetto Amaroso
(Paganini)

dung

Dutoit, Charles

Dvorak, Antonin

Dylan, Bob

E

Edison, Thomas, phonograph

electro-acoustic sound palette

electronic

instruments

synthesizers

theremin

orchestras

elements of classical music

emotions, evoking

Enesco,
Dixtuor

English horns

ensembles

equipment (stereo), selecting

Eroica

Essercizi

Esterhaz

etiquette

concert halls

arriving late

clapping

coughing

sleeping

evolution of string instruments

experiencing classical music

exposition

F

falsetto

Falstaff

fanfare

Faure, Gabriel

female vocalists

Fidelio

film scores

composers

Bernstein, Elmer

North, Alex

Rozsa, Miklos

Tiomkin, Dimitri

Williams, John

flats (scale)

flutes

folk instruments

form

formal attire in concert halls

forms (musical)

sonatas

Baroque

development

exposition

recapitulation

variations

fortepianos

see also
pianos

French horns

see also
alto oboe

Freni, Mirella

fugues

G

Galway, James

Gershwin, George

compositions

Gianni Schicchi

Gilbert and Sullivan

compositions

Gilbert, William Schwenk

see also
Gilbert and Sullivan

giraffe piano

Girraffenflugel

Glass, Philip

compositions

glissando

Goethe

gong

gong drum

Gotterdammerung
(Wagner)

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

Gregorian chants

popularity

Grieg, Edvard

Gruberova, Edita

Guarneri, Andrea

guitars

H

Hadley, Jerry

Hampson, Thomas

Handel, George Frederic

compositions

harmonicas

harmonium

harmony

chords

history

instrumental music

intervals

The Age of Anxiety

Harnoncourt, Nikolaus

harps

harpsichords

Haydn, Franz Joseph

compositions

Henry Purcell

Henry VIII

Heppner, Ben

hi-fi equipment, selecting

Hildegard of Bingen

Hindemith

history

harmony

horns

keyboards

celesta

harmonium

harpsichord

virginals

Mass

musical eras, structural guidelines

opera

oratorio

string instruments

Hogwood, Christopher

Holst, Gustav

Horne, Marilyn

Horowitz, Vladimir

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

hymns

I

individualism

informal attire in concert halls

instrument types

brass

percussion

strings

woodwinds

instrumental music

chamber

music

orchestras

combining instruments

piano trios

quartets

quintets

trios

duets

harmony

keyboards

harpsichord

history

octets

pianists

quartets

quintets

solos

sonatas

strings

symphony orchestras

trios

piano

woodwinds

instruments

alto oboe