Mus 100 Unit 5

Front 1

The Romantic Period is the period of time from ______________ to _____________

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1825 to 1900

Front 2

The terms “Romantic” and “Romanticism” come from where?

Back 2

A literary movement of the same name

Front 3

True or false: Romanticism praises the extremes of emotions in a person

Back 3

True

Front 4

Romanticism's fascination with nature and freedom can be blamed on ________________ (person) and his concept of "natural man."

Back 4

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Front 5

True or false: people in the Romantic period were fascinated with the supernatural

Back 5

True

Front 6

True or false: Early Romantic composers strived to create new emotional melodies, but still used Classical forms.

Back 6

False

Front 7

True or false: During the Romantic period, the lines between art forms (poetry, literature, painting, music) were firmly understood.

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False

Front 8

True of false: The Romantics cherished music as the most expressive art form because it had no words and could mean anything.

Back 8

True

Front 9

True or false: During the Romantic period a divide opened between comoposers and their audiences.

Back 9

True

Front 10

The musical term _____________ means "robbed time" and refers to the practice of slowing down and speeding up a melody to be more expressive.

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Rubato

Front 11

What are the instruments in the string section of a Romantic orchestra?

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Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass

Front 12

What are the instruments in the woodwind section of a Romantic orchestra?

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Flute, Oboe, Clarinets, Bassoons

Front 13

What are the instruments in the brass section of a Romantic orchestra?

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Trumpets, horns, trombones, a tuba

Front 14

True or false: Musical form became more defined and predictable during the romantic period.

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False

Front 15

To better involve the audience in the emotional landscape of a piece of music, composers often associated them with short stories or images. This type of approach to music is called ____________________

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Program Music

Front 16

Short pieces written in the Romantic period, for performance by any kind of ensemble are called _________

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miniatures

Front 17

Other large scale works in the Romantic period became larger than in the Classical period, and are known as _________________________

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Grandiose compositions

Front 18

_________________is the practice of using one theme to unify an entire grandiose work, such as a melody, rhythmic motive, chord, etc

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Thematic unity

Front 19

Composers would use and modify a theme throughout the course of a work, so the theme is sometime clearly audible, while other times it is merely implied. This constant reuse and modification of a theme is called ____________________

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Thematic transformation

Front 20

The music of ________________ had a tremendous effect on the early romantic composers

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Beethoven

Front 21

True or false: Romantic composers were influenced heavilyy be literature of the time.

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True

Front 22

The _________________ is a particular type of German song that developed during the Romantic period that is generally short, written with piano accompaniment, and usually based on a poem.

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Lied

Front 23

Franz Schubert's "Erlkonig" is an example of a ____________

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Lied

Front 24

A lied in which the music changes continuously is called _________________

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Through-composed

Front 25

A lied in which the music repeats for each stanza of text is called _________________

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Strophic

Front 26

A collection of songs held together by a unifying theme or story is called a __________________

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Song cycle

Front 27

______________________ are short pieces, generally composed for piano, written to convey a particular mood or emotion

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Character Pieces

Front 28

In 1854, tormented by voices, hallucinations, and loss of memory, ______________________ tried to drown himself in the Rhine river and was committed to an asylum, where he died two years later.

Back 28

Robert Schumann

Front 29

Hector Berlioz was famous for his program symphony titled ____________________________

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Fantastic Symphony

Front 30

A whole symphony with a story associated with it is called a ___________________________

Back 30

Program symphony

Front 31

True or false: Opera in the romantic was not under the influence of the same cultural forces as instrumental music

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False

Front 32

Early romantic opera was shaped predominantly by 4 figures:

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Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, von Weber

Front 33

A ________________ is a person who writes the story and text for an opera

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Librettist

Front 34

___________________was the preeminent Italian opera composer of the Romantic Period

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Giuseppe Verdi

Front 35

True of false: Verdi's name was a symbol of the Italian Liberation movement

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True

Front 36

Under Verdi, the orchestra role in Italian opera grew or shrank?

Back 36

Grew

Front 37

__________________ was the most popular composer of German opera in the Romantic period

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Richard Wagner

Front 38

Wagner's idea was to create a new genre of music called ____________________ which would include all the high arts; music, poetry, acting, oration, literature, politics… as well as lavish sets and costumes

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Music drama

Front 39

Wagner called his idea of music drama _________________, which means "total artwork."

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Gesamptkunstwerk

Front 40

Wagner’s operatic music made use of something called a ________________, which is a theme or melody associated with a character, place, or item in the opera

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Leitmotiv

Front 41

A ___________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition with a program in a free musical form. The genre was invented by Franz Liszt

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Symphonic poem

Front 42

One of the popular leanings in romantic music is to include sounds from other cultures in music. This practice is called ____________________

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Exoticism

Front 43

When composers included folk songs or musical ideas that represented their own nation in their work, it is called ____________________

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Nationalism

Front 44

True or false: The hallmark of Johannes Brahms' style is his use of folk music in his works

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False

Front 45

True or false: Johannes Brahms used classical forms for his Romantic pieces

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True

Front 46

Gustav Mahler wrote music that represented to him what Romanticism should have been. It is often called Romantic __________________

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Nostalgia

Front 47

True or false: Mahler specialized in the German lied

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False

Front 48

One attribute that is evident in all of Mahler’s music is _______________ of melody, folk tune, time, meter, and harmony.

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Distortion

Front 49

Mahler’s 1st symphony in contains a distorted folk song called ___________________

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"Frere Jacques"

Front 50

In the arts, the fixation on and representation of the future was called ___________________

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Modernism

Front 51

There were three important philosphical or scientific ideas that rocked the Western culture during the late romantic period. There were: _________________________,_________________________, and _________________________.

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Einstein: relativity
Darwin: evolution
Freud: the subconscious

Front 52

One of the best-known movements within modernism is _____________________, which tries to imitate the flashes of light, form, and color that our eyes actually see.

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Impressionism

Front 53

_____________________is a decidedly unrealistic style of painting, where objects and forms mean something more than what they are

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Symbolism

Front 54

- Symbolists love the music of Wagner because of his use of __________________; musical themes that have deeper meaning than just as a melody

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Leitmotivs

Front 55

In Germany, an artistic movement called __________________ sought to express the most extreme human feelings by divorcing itself from everyday literalness

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Expressionism

Front 56

__________________ is the most famous of the impressionist composers

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Claude Debussy

Front 57

True or false: Impressionists were often fascinated with animals, pagan rites, and tribal culture and used images or symbols of them in their works to invoke extremes of human emotion

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False, Primitivists/Expressionists

Front 58

The use of ancient cultural references or symbols in music was called __________________

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Primitivism

Front 59

Music which is predominantly dissonant is called ____________ music

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Atonal

Front 60

True or false: Expressionists were fascinated with deeply psychological states, hysteria, and even insanity

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True

Front 61

Schoenberg invented a technique called ____________________ which is in between singing and speaking

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Sprecchstimme

Front 62

Sprechstimme is a singing/speaking technique developed by what group of modernists? __________________

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Expressionists

Front 63

True or false: Modernism was the source of much creativity during the period preceding World War I, and up to World War II

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True

Front 64

True or false: Every composer in the post-romantic followed modernist ideas.

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False