Music And Civ Quiz: Romanticism

Front 1

Romanticism:

Back 1

was an artistic viewpoint that also predominated dance, theater, visual arts, and music throughout the nineteenth century

Front 2

Romantics also loved ______.

Back 2

beauty

Front 3

Composers like ______ and ______ wrote beautiful, rich melodies

Back 3

brahms and Tschailkovsky

Front 4

Romanticism refers to the style that prevailed from roughly _______ to ______

Back 4

1820 to 1900

Front 5

Comers of art son first _____________ and then wrote _________ that they felt would best express the _________.

Back 5

selected a poem, music, text

Front 6

True of False: Most art songs are in languages other than English

Back 6

true

Front 7

True or false: A song that is through composed contains repeats in the lines of music:

Back 7

false

Front 8

Short forms were created to replace the _____________, _____, and _______.They were known as ___________.

Back 8

sonato, rondo, and fugue.

charter pieces

Front 9

8 Character pieces include:

Back 9

the ballade, berceuse, etude, prelude, impromptu, fantasia, scherzo, and nocturne

Front 10

Rubato:

Back 10

a style of performance in which the performer deviates slightly from the exact execution of the rhythm

Front 11

True of False: Program music is defined as instrumental music that is consciously associated with non-musical ideas

Back 11

true

Front 12

There are several types of program music:

Back 12

concert overtures, incidental music, tone poems, program symphonies

Front 13

Idee fixe:

Back 13

a reccurent theme, a "fixed" idea, subject to changes in rhythm, harmony, tempo, meter.

Front 14

When these changes occur, the technique is known as ___________________

Back 14

theme transformation

Front 15

True or False: There is a clear distinction between ballet and concert music

Back 15

false

Front 16

Emphasis on _______ through technically demanding __________, ________, and _______ is known as bel canto.

Back 16

beautiful singing, melodic lines, ornamentation

Front 17

True or False: The french didn't develop quite as a distinctive style of opera as the Germans and Italians did

Back 17

True

Front 18

True or false: German opera is generally lighter than italian opera

Back 18

false

Front 19

Music and drama is defined as:

Back 19

The term Richard Wagner used for his operas in which they tried to strike balance between the music and the dramatic action

Front 20

A Leitmotiv is defined as:

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A motive or theme that is associated with a particular character or idea in the music dramas of Richard Wagner

Front 21

Diminution is defined asL

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The proportional reduction of all note values in a theme

Front 22

Augmentation is defined as:

Back 22

A compositional technique in which the note values of a theme are all lengthened proportionally.

Front 23

What are some qualities of Brahms music?

Back 23

The skill with which themes are organized and developed.

The quality of optimism and good feeling

The noble quality of the music