Romantic Era Music Test

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What are some general traits of the Romantic Era?

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1. Subjective emotion
2. Fantasy; world of dreams
3. Chivalry and Romance
4. Love of Nature

Front 2

What is the time frame for the Romantic Era?

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1820-1900

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What are the traits of Romantic Era music?

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1. Individuality of Style
2. Expressive Aims (heart on sleeve)
3. Nationalism and Exoticism
4. Program Music
5. Emphasis on virtuosity

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Program Music

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1. Instrumental music that tells a story/poem/idea/scene
2. Sonata form (w/ slow intro and coda)
3. Shakespeare and Goethe - very popular writers who inspired program music

Front 5

Tone Color of Romantic Music

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1. More instruments (100+)
2. Harp, brass, percussion

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Harmony of Romantic Music

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Chromatic - more chords and therefore richer

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Dynamics, pitch, and tempo of Romantic Music

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1. Very, very soft and then supremely loud
2. High pitch

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Tempo Rubaro

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Speeding up or slowing down for expressive purposes

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Nicolo Paganini

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Virtuoso violinist of the 1830s

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Franz Schubert

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1. Contemporary Viennese composer
2. Composed individual songs as well as chamber music

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Absolute Music

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Everything instrumental other than program music

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Art Song

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Work for solo voice w/ piano accompaniment

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German Lieder

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German serious composition made up of beautiful melodies and chromatic harmony

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Romantic Era Composers

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1. Feliz Mendelssohn
2. Robert Schumann
3. Frederick Chopin
4. Franz Liszt
5. Hector Berlioz
6. Bedrich Smetana
7. Antonin Dvorak

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Felix Mendelssohn

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1. Most privileged upbringing
2. Wrote music for Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Violin Concerto in E Minor (most acclaimed)

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Robert Schumann

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1. Named his son after Felix
2. Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik
3. Carnaval - piano composition for masked ball
4. Wrote "Chiarina" for child prodigy Clara Wieck, marries her
5. "Chopin", composed in Chopin's honor

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Frederick Chopin

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1. "Poet of Piano"
2. Single instrament composer
3. Polish weakling
4. George Sand was the pen name of his lover
5. Nocturne in E flat Major to represent the night
6. Moved to Paris and taught piano to wealthy people
7. Etude Revolutionary - took an excercize and made it art

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Franz Liszt

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1. Fan of Paganini
2. Wrote Symphonic (tone) poems
3. Writer of Transcendental Etudes

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Hector Berlioz

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1. Flambouyant Parisian
2. Wrote Symphonie Fantastique
3. Invented term "idee fixe"

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Nationalist Czechs

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1. Bedrich Smetana - wrote Ma Vlast (6 symphonies)
2. Antonin Dvorak - wrote New World symphony