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75 Cards in this Set
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Romantic Age
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1820-1900
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Style of Romantic
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Individuality
Super Natural Nationalism Exoticism |
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What makes the nationalists composer, nationalist?
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Take melodies and folk from the country that they are from
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Exoticism
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Composer interested in folk elements far away from their country
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Program Music
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Instrumental music associated with a story as main idea, no voices, story line
-Program = Just the story itself |
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How many musicians do we have in late romantic?
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100
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Most influential composer of earlier romantic?
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Beethoven
-new sound in music, more flexibility |
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Most wanted instrument in homes in Romantic, Middle Ages
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Piano
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New places to play in Romantic
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Concerts, concert halls, ticket sales
Orchestra |
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2 types of program music for symphony that has 1 movement
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1. Concert Overture
2. Symphonic Poem |
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Composition with a solo voice in piano?
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Art Song
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Strophic Form
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Form with same music throughout stanzas
A-A-A |
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Modified Strophic
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Form with music different between stanzas
A-B-A pattern |
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Through Composed
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Different music through each of the stanzas
A-B-C |
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Polonaise
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Mini piano about dances from Chopin's native lands
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Idee fixe
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-1850
-Fantastic symphony and main theme -Recurring theme |
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Absolute Music
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Music not associated with program
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Light Motif
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-Motifs in Bauchner's Opera that are similar to another opera
-Light theme that is associated with character, object, or idea -Segments that carry over -Book to a movie |
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Basso Profondo
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Low, rage, powerful voice in opera, great dignity
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Libretto
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Text in opera
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Who has the greatest responsibility to hold everything together in the opera?
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Conductor
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Aria
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Song in opera that is accompanied by orchestra
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Ensemble
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3,4,5 soloists sing together
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Camerata
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-Baroque
-Group of composers who created opera -Based on: GREEK TRAGEDY |
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Famous opera by Mozart where he is portrayed as a legendary man who's goal was to seduce all women?
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Dawn Giovanni
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Italian composer who used libretto to attack Austria king because they had power over Italians?
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Giuseppe Verdi
-"Father of Italy" |
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Dvorak
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Composer in dramatic time who had strong influence on composers to start composing American music
-Native and African Americans -From Czeckrepublic |
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Characteristics of 20th century music artists
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Rebels - against war
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Famous composer where music in 20th century created a huge riot in 1913
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Igor Stravinsky - Right of Spring
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Primitivism
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Primitive elements using sounds of percussions to create accent in unusual places
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Where did 20th century composers get their ideas from?
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Asia
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Pentatonic Scale
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5-tone scale
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Scales in Renaissance
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Church Modes
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Bela Bartok
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Composer who started a new way of writing melodies and folks from around the world
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Where did Impressionists movements start?
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France
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Where did Expressionism movements start?
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Germany and Austria
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Most famous Impressionist composer?
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Claude Debussy
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Most famous Expressionism composer?
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Who made the painting that started the Impressionism movement, "Sunrise"?
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Claude Monet
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Effects of light, color, and ____ in expressionist painting.
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Atmosphere
(Impressionism = Blurry) |
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Debussy was inspired by impressionism musicians from:
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Asia (started movement)
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Famous Neoclassical composer?
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Js Bach
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Sprechstimme
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The voice that Schoenberg invented
"speech through music" -not tone pitch, but rhythm |
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Tone color in Romantic Time?
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Expressive
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Types of harmony in Romantic Time?
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Chromatic
More dissonance |
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Tempo and Rhythm in Romantic time?
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Fluctuates changes
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Rubato
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Slight holding back, no structured beat
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Start to Romantic period, bridge to Romantic composes and innovation
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Beethoven
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Society in Romantic Period
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Growing middle class, larger church
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3 forms of art songs
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Strophic
Modified Strophic Through Composed |
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Interlude
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Piano Intro
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Postlude
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Piano at the end of the song
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Main goal of Program Music
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Expression
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Concert always in ____ form.
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Sonato
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Symphonic
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Flexible forms like sonato and rondo
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Opera starts with ______ to set _____.
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Overture; mood
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Idee Fixe expresses ______ emotions.
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Hector Berlioz
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Nationalism is in what century?
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19th
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Opera
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-Nationalism
-Drama sung with orchestra -Main character: Star solo singer -In Orchestra Pit |
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Form of Romantic Style
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Miniature and Monumental
-Thematic Trasformation (melody returns in a later movement) |
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Romantic art songs are sometimes grouped in a set or ____
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Song Style
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Program Symphony
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Composition of several movements, descriptive titles
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Incidental Music
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Music intended to be performed before and during a play
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Leading Nationalist Musicians
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Mussorgsky, Grieg, Sibelius, Albeniz
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Coloratura Soprano
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Very high range, rapid scales and trills
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Lyric tenor
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Relatively light, bright voice
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Operas have 1 to __ sections
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5
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Chorus
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generates atmosphere in opera
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Classical composer:
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W.A. Mozart
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Richard Wagner's views on opera
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-Temple, Overwhelmed by music and drama
-Larger than life characters -Called music dramas -Continuous music flow -"Die Walkure" |
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20th century tone color
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Rapid
Glissando (rapid slide up or down on scale) Flutter tongue (rapidly rolling tongues while play) Percussion Instrumental |
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20th century harmony
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Consonance and Dissonance
New chord structures |
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20th century rhythm
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Irregularity and unpredictability
Polyrhythm |
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Debussy wanted to capture in music what Impressionist did in ____
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visual art
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Neoclassicism
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1920-1950
-Based on new forms of classical and baroque -Avoided program music -Modern |
