Music Appreciation: Romatic Period

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Napoleon was defeated in

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1815

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The French itellectual, called the "father of Romanticism," who turned from a rational to an emotional approach to life and art was

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Jean-Jacques Rosseau

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The orchestra used in the first performance of Haydn's Creation in 1798 had ______ pieces.

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180

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During the early nineteenth century, the harp was improved, acquiring "double ______," that allowed it to play flat as well as sharp notes.

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action

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The effort to increase the capacity of the various brass instruments to produce rapid changes in pitch led to the addition of ______, which greatly enhanced their melodic capabilities.

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valves and pistions

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The ______ was invented in 1816, enabling composers to indidcate exactly the tempo they desired for any composition.

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metronome

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______ was one of the first major composers to use metronome markings.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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_____, who had the reputation of being the best pianist in Vienna, was afflicted in his late 20s with an ear disease that eventually led to total deafness.

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Beethoven

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Although Beethoven mastered the forms of the Classical style, he also altered them by

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disguising the dividing points between large sections, extending the length of the development section in sonata-allegro movements, expanding the length and role of the coda to that of a second development
(all of these)

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Beethoven liked to combine forms: the ______ retains the key relationship of the sonata-allegro but alternates themes in the fashion of a rondo.

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sonata-rondo

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It is customary to divide Beethoven's worsk into ___ periods.

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3

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______, a transitional figure who composed in both the Classical and Romantic styles, was the only "Viennese" composer who was actually from Vienna.

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Franz Schubert

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Schubert avsorbed the Classical appreciation of ______, and his chamber pieces are beautifully organized according to Classical principles.

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form

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The term universally applied to German art songs is

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Lieder

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Some of Schubert's most effective songs are included in song sets or song ______, which had texts by the same spoet.

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cycles

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An outstanding trait of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the use of the

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chorus and orchestra.

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In the "Erlkonig" Schubert uses the piano to suggest

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the galloping horse.

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19th-century writers, painters, and musicians were highly ______ in their approach to the arts, vividly expressing their most intimate and personal thoughts and experiences in the effort to assert their individual personalities.

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subjective

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______ was one of the outstanding characteristics of the Romantic period, for Romantics were fascinated not only with their own psyches, but also with the most personal expressions of others.

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Individualism

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Each of the following terms applies to the Romantic period except

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mundane.

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19th-century society was entirely changed by the ______ Revolution.

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Industrial

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During the Romantic period, art was largely supported by the ______ class, who were willing and generally able to pay for what they appreciated.

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middle

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During the early part of the 19th century, history was of great interest; later in the century, the public became more interested in ______ than history, as geology proved how brief the period of recorded hisory was in comparison with the time humans had lived on earth.

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science

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19h century music was so closely married to ______ that consideration of one without the other is inconceivable.

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literature

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When the same thematic material recurs in two or more movements of a multimovement composition, the work is

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cyclic.

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All of the following were characteristic of Romantic harmony except:

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the orchestra decreased in size

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Nikolai andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov and the following Russian composers were all associated with the nationalistic movement known as The Five except:

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Peter Tchaikovsky