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37 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of Romanticism
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the passionate and the fanciful
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19th century is characterized by
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1. technical advances in intsruments
2.more educational opportunitites 3. the orchestra grew in size 4. the use of nationalistic folklore and exotic subjects 5. Memorable melodies, expressive harmony, and broad forms 6. Virtuoso soloist and amateur music making 7. Women as great musicians |
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Romantic Composers exploited
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nationalistic folklore and exotic subjects from other cultures
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Two concert Pianist/teachers
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Franz Liszt and Frederick Chopin
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Where was Franz List from?
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Hungary
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Where was Chopin from?
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Poland
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Lied
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German Art Song
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How many lieder was Schubert Responsible for
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more than 600
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What was the year of song for schumann?
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1840, when he married Clara Wieck
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What was schumann's job
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Editor for the New Journal of Music
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The short lyric piano piece
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Prelude > Intermezzo > Impromptu > Etude > Nocturne
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Who influenced Chopin?
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George Sand
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Who influenced Schubert?
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Wolfgang von Goethe
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What dances from Poland did Chopin expand
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Polonaise and the Mazurka
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Pieces by Clara Wieck Schumann
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Scherzo OP.10, and Nocturne
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Program music
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intsrumental music with literary or pictorial association, indicated by the title
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Symphonic poem or tone poem
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a kind of program music
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Idee fixee
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recurring theme to represent the composers beloved (Berlioz)
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Berlioz Literary contribution
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a treatise on orchestration
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Smetana wrote
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"the Moldau" a piece about the river of his country
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Erlking
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written by Schubert
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Other nationalistic composers
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Edward Grieg and Jean Sibelius
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Romantic Symphony structure
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Fast-slow-kind of dance(minuet scherzo, and trio-fast
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The New world symphony
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Dvorak most popular today, classical in structure but romantic in its color, loosely programatic, inspired by Longfellows The Song of Hiawatha
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The German Requiem
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By Brahams, set to biblical text and it aims at consoling the living, does not follow traditional scheme
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The Romantic Concerto form
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fast-slow-fast
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Felix Mendelssohn
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preserves many classical elements in the structure of his compositions
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Amy Cheney Beach
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Composer from New England
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"Carmen" by Bizet
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example of exoticism in opera
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Choral genres of the romantic period
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the mass, the requiem mass, and oratorio
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"Madame Butterfly"
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written by Puccini, giesha, japanese culture, exoticism, and verismo
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Rigoletto
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based on a play by Victor Hugo, written by Verdi
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Wagner
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Coined the word Gesmatkunstwerk(complete art work), and the Musical Drama genre
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Lietmotifs
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recurring themes that represent and idea, person or idea
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Verismo
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Means realism, real actual matters, daily life characters and events
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Pas De Duex
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Created by Russian Choregrapher Marius Petipa, means dance for two
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Tchaiovsky
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wrote the ballets "sleeping beauty" Nutcracker, and Swan Lake"
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