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define a cannon in the Romantic era
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On museum or Reparatur that consisted of the core of today's concert music
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Define chromatic harmony
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Chords constructed on the five remaining notes within the 12 note chromatic scale
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Define rubato
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Literally meaning robbed, an expression mark for a faster or slower tempo and in an intensely personal way
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Define a character piece
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A minute or two work in which the composer tries to capture the essence of a single mood, sediment, or emotion. It was usually written for the piano and often made use of simple binary or ternary form
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Did for berloiz like small or large orchestras?
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He wanted no fewer than 467 performers!
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What era was the conductor implemented?
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The Romantic era
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define a virtuoso
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When a soloist tries to showcase show stopping skills and appeal to an audience
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Define art song
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A song for solo voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic aspirations
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What is another name for art song?
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Lied, German for song
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Who was the only viennese master native to the city?
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Franz Schubert
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What group was Franz Schubert admitted to as a young boy?
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Vienna Boys Choir
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Why was Schubert spared military service?
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Because he was below the minimum height and had poor vision
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Define a Schubertiads
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Small private assemblies where Schubert played his best songs for his friends
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What disease did Schubert contract? Aka the same disease Cassidy has
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Syphilis
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Define a song cycle
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A tightly structured group of individual songs that tell a story or treat a single theme
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Define a ballad
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Alphabets story told alternatively in narrative verse and dramatic dialogue
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What was Schubert's best known song?
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erlkonig
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What is the genre and form of Schubert's erklonig?
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Art song, thorough compose
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Define a thorough composed song
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A musical composition featuring ever-changing melodic and harmonic material
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Define strophic form
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here one poetic mood is maintained from 1 stanza, or strophe, to the text
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What was the name of Robert Schumann wife?
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Clara Schumann
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Who is the greatest pianist of the Romantic era?
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lizst
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What is the prominent trait of nationalistic music?
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They always used to folk music from the country
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What did Schumann name is alter ego?
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eusebuis and floristan
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Who was Clara Schumann what did she do?
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She was the wife of Robert Schumann, famous concert pianist. After Robert death she continued to play his pieces to support her family
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define col legno
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Italian for with the wood. An introduction to string players to strike the strings of the instrument with the wood of the bow
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define idee fixe
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Literally, a fixed idea. More specifically an obsessive musical theme as first used in Hector berloiz's Symphony fantastique
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define dies irae
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A Gregorian chant composed in the 13th century and used as the central portion of the requiem mass of the Catholic Church
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define bel canto
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Italian for beautiful singing, the style of singing and a type of Italian opera developed in the 19th century that features the beautiful tone and brilliant technique of the human voice
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define cabaletta
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The concluding fast Aria of any two or three section operatic scene, a useful mechanism to get the principal's off the stage
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Define ostinato
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a musical figure, motif, melody, harmony, or rhythm that is repeated over again and again
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define gesamtkunatwerk
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An art form that involves music, poetry, drama, and scenic design, often used in reference to Richard Wagner's music dramas
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Define leitmotif
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A brief, distinct unit of music designed to represent a character, object, or idea, a term applied to the motifs in the music dramas of Richard Wagner
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Define program music
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A piece of instrumental music, usually for Symphony Orchestra, that speaks to recreate and sound the event and emotions portrayed in some extra musical source, the story, a play, historical event, an encounter with nature, or even a painting
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Define music drama
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a term used for the mature operas of Richard Wagner
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Define an etude
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A short one movement composition designed to improve one aspect of a performer's technique
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Define a symphony
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a genre of instrumental music for orchestra consisting of several movements, also the orchestra ensemble that plays this genre
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Define orchestral song
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a genre of music emerging in the 19th century in which the voice is accompanied not merely by a piano but by a full orchestra
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Define opera
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A dramatic work in which the actors sings some or all of their parts, it usually makes use of elaborate stage sets and costumes
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Define a concerto
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That instrumental genre in which one or more soloists play with and against a large orchestra
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What instrument was a specially favored during the Romantic period?
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The French horn
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What was the average size of the orchestra during the Romantic period?
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Close to 100
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Who is the most famous and successful composer of art songs?
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Schubert
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Who created the song cycle?
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Schubert
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What are the three main forms for the art song?
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thorough composed, stophic, and modified strophic
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What is the storyline of Franz Schubert erlkonig?
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Elf king, legend River who touched the king of elves would die. Schubert wrote the whole ballad to music
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what is the genre and form, and meaning of Clara Schumann's liebst du um schonheit?
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art song, modified strophic. If you love me for beauty
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Define absolute music
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Symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and other instrumental music without extra musical or programmatic references
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What are the three most common types of program music
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Program Symphony, dramatic overture, tone poem or the symphonic poem
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Define program symphony
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A symphony with the usual three four or five movements which together depict a succession of specific events or scene from an extra musical story or event
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Define dramatic overture
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A 1 movement work usually in sonata allegro form, that portrays through music a sequence of dramatic events
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Define tone poem or symphonic poem
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A 1 movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with the story, play, political event, or personal experience
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What were the instruments that berloiz experimented with?
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ophocleide, English horn, cornet, and the newly invented saxophone
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What was Hector berloiz originally studying before music?
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She was studying to become a doctor, but got sick when dissecting
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What is berloiz's most celebrated composition?
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Symphony fantastique
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What is the background of symphony fantastique movement 4 and why did berloiz write it?
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He was obsessed with his relationship with Harriet Smithson, his love doesn't recognize him, the artist poisons himself with opium. March to the scaffold. known for the expansion of the orchestra
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What is the genre of Symphony fantastic?
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Program symphony
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Define diminution
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A reduction, usually by half, and all the rhythmic durations of the melody
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What is the genre and form of Romeo and Juliet?
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Tone poem, sonata allegro form
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What is genre and form from tchaikovsky's Dance of the reed pipes from The Nutcracker? background?
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Ballet music, ternary. Claire's dream text her and a handsome prince across the world
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What is the genre and form of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker?
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Ballet music, ternary, the Sugar Plum Fairy charms a handsome prince
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What is the background behind pictures at an exhibition?
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We enter a gallery filled with purely Russian art giving the listeners an impression of enjoying a leisurely stroll through the gallery
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What is the form of Modest musorgsky's the great gate of Kiev?
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rondo
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What type of scale does prominade use?
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A pentatonic scale which uses only 5 notes instead of the usual Western scale 7
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what made schumman begin writing art songs?
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his love for clara
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What is the genre and form of Nocturne in E flat major by Chopin?
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Nocturne, theme and variations
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What is the genre of transcendental etude by Franz Liszt?
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Etude
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what is the genre and form of brahms' violin concerto in d major?
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concerto, rondo
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what is the form of from a new world by dvorak? second movement
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abca'
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what is the genre and form of mahler's ich bin der welt gwkommen?
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orchestral song, throughout composed
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