History 3: Final Exam Preparation

1. Table of Titles, Composers, and Genres

2. Terms: Definitions and Examples

3. Details of AT LEAST 6 composers.

4. Details of AT LEAST 10 pieces.

5. The Underlined Notes throughout the course

6. The Exam Booklets (you’ll find the same questions coming up over and over again).

7. The Excerpts (this part is the least important).

For your information only:

These are statistics of the composers and pieces we have studied and their occurance in past exams. They are ranked from the most frequent to the least (i.e. the ones you should pay most attention to, down to the least).

Composers:

1. Verdi, Wagner (tie)

2. Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Liszt, Berlioz (tie)

3. Schubert

4. Dvorak, Robert Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Clara Schumann (tie)

5. Bizet, Musorgsky (tie)

Pieces:

1. Pictures at an Exhibition

2. Erlking (aka. Erlkonig)

3. La Traviata, Carmen, Piano Concerto in A minor, Die Walkure (tie)

4. From the New World (aka. Symphony No. 9), Polonaise in A-flat major, Wild Hunt (aka.

Wilde Jagd)

5. Symphonies Fantastique, Pagliacci, A German Requiem (tie)

6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Futile Serenade, Prelude in E minor