Selection #10: Symphonie Fantastique

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Gustav Mahler

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Composer of the "Symphony of a Thousand Voices"

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Cyclic Symphony

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Symphonies that had each movement linked

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Richard Wagner

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German Nationalist Composer who celebrated ancient German legends

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Music Dramas

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Operas developed by using pre-existing stories as the basis

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Programmatic Music

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A practice that was widespread during the Romantic Era

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Absolute Music

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Works that we're not programmatic

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Classical era

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Absolute Music was most popular during which era

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Johannes Brahms

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The most notable "absolute music"composer during the Romantic era

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Hector Berlioz

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The composer who made program music popular

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Hector Berlioz

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Composer of Symphonie Fantastique

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Medicine

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Hector Berlioz earned his bachelor's degree in

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Paris Conservatory

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The music school that Hector Berlioz attended

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Harriet Smithson

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Hector Berlioz's love interest who inspired him to compose

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Hamlet

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The name of the play where Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time

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His unattainable love

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By making his symphonies cyclic, Berlioz was representing what

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1830

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Year Symphonie Fantastique was composed

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Episode in the Life of an Artist

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The original main title of Symphonie Fantastique

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Fantasy

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In French the word Fantastique relates to the word

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Opium

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What drug is the artist on that causes him to see his Beloved everywhere?

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Harriet Smithson

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Name of the Beloved in Symphonie Fantastique

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Idée Fixe (fixed idea)

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The term for the repeated melody throughout Symphonie Fantastique

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Overvalued idea or obsession

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Idée Fixe is an alternative term for

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Dreams-Passion

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Movement I of Symphonie Fantatique title

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A Ball

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Movement II of Symphonie Fantastique title

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Scene in the Country

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Movement III of Symphonie Fantastique title

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Tremolos

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Rapid back-and-forth bowings that produce a trembling effect

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Dream of Withches' Sabbath

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Movement V of Symphonie Fantastique title

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Dies Irae

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Ancient Funeral chant that is played during the fifth movement of Symphonie Fantastique

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Ophicleides

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Obsolete brass instrument with holes along the side controlled by keys in a method similar to that of woodwind instruments

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Tuba

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Replacement instrument for the now-obsolete ophiceildes

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Six years

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The length of Berlioz and Smithson marriage

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Leitmotifs

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Wagner's term for using several music motifs for several characters

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Star Wars

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Wagner's leitmotifs had an impact on this huge movie franchise

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Carl Maria von Weber

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Composer who had already implemented leitmotifs in vocal music

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Dies Irae

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Universal leitmotif that is a signal for imminent death or danger

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Classical era

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The toppling of absolute monarchies made this era decline

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London Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic

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These civic orchestras were created after a growing interest of the public arts in the nineteenth century

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The use of a conductor

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The biggest structural innovation in 19th century orchestras according to John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw

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France

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The first country to use a conductor

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Felix Mendelssohn

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The conductor who began the Bach-revival

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St. Matthew Passion

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Mendelssohn conducted this Bach vocal piece to revive interest in Baroque music

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Improved transportation

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This allowed musicians to make orchestral performances their primary carrer

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Monster concert

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The name for the employment of hundreds of people in an ensemble

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England

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The country in which monster concerts originated

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Nicoló Paganini

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One of the worlds first "rock stars" who was an immensely talented violin player

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Paganini was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil

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Ticket sales soared because of this rumor about Paganini

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Recital

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A concert featuring a soloist

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Franz Liszt

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Name the first performer to have a recital

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Piano

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What instrument did Franz Liszt play

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Franz Liszt

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Name of the person who coined the word recital

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Louis XIV

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Franz Liszt compared himself to this French king

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Franz Liszt

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First person to play each recital from memory

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Conservatories

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Schools devoted to the teaching of music for future performers

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Catholic Church

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Before conservatories, who supported musical education

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University of Michigan

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Which university created the first School of Music