RCM History III Exam Requirements

RCM EXAM REQUIREMENTS FOR HISTORY III
NOTE: Biographical information is not required for composers marked with an asterisk.
However students must be able to discuss their musical styles and contributions.
THE ROMANTIC ERA (ca 1825-ca 1900)
Representative Composers
Felix Mendelssohn
Representative Genres and Works
Concerto
Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
first movement
Robert Schumann
Art Song
Dichterliehe, op. 48
OR
"Und wüsstens die Blumen"
"Im wunderschönen Monat Mai"
OR
Character Piece
Carnaval, op. 9
"Eusebius"
"Florestan"
Piano Music
"La Campanella" from Grandes etudes de Paganini
Choral Music
Ein deutsches Requiem
fourth movement: "Wie lieblich sind deine
Wohnungen"
Opera
La Traviata
Act II, Scene 2:
"lnvitato ... " to end of act
OR
Rigoletto
Act III:
"La donna è mobile"
"Un dì"
"Bella figlia"
Opera
Die Walküre
Act III:
"Der Augen leuchtendes Paar" to end of act
Franz Liszt
Johannes Brahms
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
Bedřich Smetana*
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky*
Symphonic Poem
“Vltava” from Má vlast
Concert Overture
Romeo and Juliet Overture
Related Terms
double stopping
cadenza
pedal point
sonata form
Lied
song cycle
strophic form
modified strophic form
piano cycle
cross rhythm
etude
rondo form
aria
bel canto
coloratura soprano
libretto
recitative
chromatic harmony
Gesamtkunstwerk
Heldentenor
Leitmotif
music drama
nationalism in music
program music
THE MODERN ERA (ca 1900 to Present)
Representative
Composers I: Europe
Gustav Mahler *
Maurice Ravel
Representative Genres and Works
Related Terms
Symphony
Symphony no. 4 in G maior
fourth movement
Piano Music
Jeux d’eau
cyclical structure
Béla Bartók
Orchestral Music
Concerto for Orchestra
fourth movement
Sergei Prokofiev
Ballet
Romeo and Juliet, Suite no. 2, op. 64c
Act I, Scene 4:
"The Montagues and Capulets: The
Capulet Ball"
Song Cycle
Pierrot lunaire, op. 21
"Der Mondfleck"
"0 alter Duft aus Marchenzeit"
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg*
Anton Webern*
Olivier Messiaen
György Ligeti*
Arvo Pärt*
Opera
Wozzeck
Act III, scene 4:
"Das Messer?"
Orchestral Interlude
Act III, scene 5:
"Ringel, Ringel, Rosenkranz"
Orchestral Music
Symphony, op. 21
second movement
Chamber Music
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
second movement: "Vocalise, pour l''Ange
qui annonce la fin du Temps"
Orchestral Music
Atmospheres
Choral Music
Cantate Domino canticum novum
glissando
Impressionism in music
pentatonic scale
whole-tone scale
changing meter
neo-Classicism
ostinato
polytonality
quotation in music
choreography
en pointe
atonality
canon
Expressionism in music
Klangfarbenmelodie
rondeau
Sprechstimme
celesta
cluster chord
serialism
theme and variations
tone row
twelve-tone music
mode of limited transposition
micropolyphony
minimalism
tintinnabulation
Representative Composers II: North America
Candidates must be prepared to discuss the musical style and the given representative work of FOUR of
the following composers:
John Cage
Aaron Copland
Jean Coulthard
George Crumb
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn
Christos Hatzis
Paul Lansky
Steve Reich
R. Murray Schafer
Harry Somers
Stephen Sondheim
Joan Tower
Healey Willan
Sonata V, from Sonatas and Interludes
"Street in a Frontier Town," from Billy the Kid
“The Contented House” from Canada Mosaic
"The Little Boy Is Looking for His Voice," from Ancient Voices of Children
Take the "A” Train
Nadir
Notjustmoreidlechatter
Electric Counterpoint
String Quartet No.2 ("Waves")
any TWO contrasting movements, from Picasso Suite
"My Friends," from Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
For the Uncommon Woman
Hodie Christus Natus Est
Representative Performers on the World Stage: Past and Present
Candidates should also be prepared to discuss the careers of FOUR of the following performing artists:
Laurie Anderson
Joshua Bell
Miles Davis
Renee Fleming
Glenn Gould
Angela Hewitt
Diana Krall
Alison Krauss
Kronos Quartet
Louis Lortie
Yo-Yo Ma
Wynton Marsalis
Joni Mitchell
Oscar Peterson