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31 Cards in this Set
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Romantic Era
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1820-1910
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Rubato
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free treatment of meter during performance
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Romantic Orchestra
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played symphony, concerto, opera orchestra, ballet orchestra, and religious music
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Program Music
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nonvocal music written in association with a poem, or external source. Intended to tell a story or paint a picture
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Miniatures
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a term for a short, evocative composition for piano or for piano and voice
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Concert Overture
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An early 19th century genre resembling an opera overture, but without any following opera
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Symphonic Poem
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a piece of orchestral program music in one long movement which is based upon a poem, novel, landscape, or some other worldly source. No Set Form.
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Bel Canto
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a style of singing that brings out the sensuous beauty of the voice
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Cross-Rhythms
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duple over triple meter.
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Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony, V
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Idée Fixe
Dies Irae Program Symphony |
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Idée Fixe
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fixed idea, a recurring theme used in all movements of one program symphony
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Dies Irae
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“day of wrath”, section of the Requiem Mass
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Program Symphony
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a symphony with a program, multi-movement, tells a story, used by Berlioz
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Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, III
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Classicism
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Classicism
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mimicking classical styles
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Chopin: Nocturne in F-sharp, Op. 15, No. 2
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, “Gnomus” |
Nationalism
Exoticism |
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Nationalism
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incorporation of national folk music into concert pieces to show pride in country
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Exoticism
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composers writing in the style of music from other countries
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Schubert: Erlkonig
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Lieder
Through-Composed |
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Lieder
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German song accompanied by a piano, features a Romantic poem for the text, and intimate mood. a type of chamber music Singular: Lied
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Through-Composed
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Song with new music for each stanza of the poem
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Schumann, Clara: “Der Mond kommt still gegangen”
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Modified Strophic
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Schumann, Robert: Carnaval, “Florestan”
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Character Piece
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Character Piece
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a short Romantic piano piece that portrays a particular mood
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Schumann, Robert: Dichterliebe, “Im wunderschonen Monat Mai”
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Song Cycle
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Song Cycle
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a group of songs connected by a general idea or story, and sometimes also by musical unifying devices
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Verdi: Aida, Tomb Scene (just track 12)
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Strophic
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Strophic
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Song in several stanzas with the same music composed for each stanza
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Wagner: The Valkyrie, Act I, scene I (just tracks 13 and 14)
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Music Drama
Leitmotiv |
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Leitmotiv
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“leading motive” in Wagner’s operas, a small musical fragment that represents something specific
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Music Drama
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Wagner’s name for his distinctive type of opera
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