Quiz #7

Front 1

sublime vs. beautiful

Back 1

sublime is irregular, grotesque, dark, sometimes ugly, always powerful, vs. beautiful which regular, ordered, pretty, ex. of sublime, symphonie fantastique (sublime gained prominence in Romantic era)

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lied

Back 2

a song meant to be sung by middle classes, can be strophic, modified strophic, through composed, or other, ex. erlkonig (through composed)

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exoticsm

Back 3

an interest and fascination with foreign cultures in the Romantic era, usually sterotypical and primitive, ex. Miikado

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song cycle

Back 4

a collection of songs unified by a theme or a poet, Dichterliebe

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program music

Back 5

music that has an extramusical component, with either a narrative trajectory or a governing idea, purely instrumental in the Romantic era

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idee fixe

Back 6

a recurring motif/idea that is repeated and often presented in the same instrumentation, ex. symphonie fantastique

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dias irae

Back 7

a chant from the Mass of the Dead which is played simultaneously with the witch's theme in Symphonie Fantastique mvt. 5

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anxiety of influence

Back 8

after well-respected music of the past (specifically Beethoven), composers had trouble balancing the past with moving on, could either do it better, differently, or mock him

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virtuoso

Back 9

a performer/soloist with astonishing technical skill that was as much as a celebrity as a musician, ex. scherzo

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theme and variations

Back 10

theme, variations can change in mode, rhythm, texture, etc. ex. un sospiro

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scherzo

Back 11

a piece originally in ternary form, fast and dancelike, ex. scherzo, op. 10 (STSTS, modified scherzo)

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nocturne

Back 12

lyrical song meant to evoke images of the night, reserved for piano in 19th century, ex. chopin nocturne eb major