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141 Cards in this Set
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Who coined the term "absolute music"?
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Wagner
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Which composer led the charge for programmatic music?
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Liszt
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What was the first piece that utilized a program? Composer?
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Vivaldi's 4 Seasons
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What is "characteristic" music?
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instrumental music whose subject is specified by sentences and paragraphs
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Best known piece of "characteristic" music?
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Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
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Best known piece of "programmatic" music?
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Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
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What is the name of the last movement of symphonie fantastique?
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Dream of a witch's sabbath
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Which composer first utilized silence as a sound?
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Berlioz
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Which two composers best represented program music at mid century?
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Berlioz and Liszt
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Name the "school" of composers including Liszt that were pro-program music like Wagner's operas
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New German School
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Who wrote a essay endorsing Berlioz and program music?
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Liszt
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Who came up with symphonic poems?
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Liszt
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List 5 of Liszt's symphonic poems
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Prometheus, Orpheus, hamlet, Tasso, les preludes
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What is the common musical structure of symphonic poems?
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Sonata
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What is the name of the most famous argument against program music? Author?
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Eduard Hanslick's "The Beautiful in Music"
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Who was the most powerful musical critic in German speaking countries and was first professor at university of Vienna
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Hanslick
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Define characteristic music
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Pieces of piano music that seeks to convey a mood, atmosphere, or scene w/o any accompanying text
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Who composed "the little windmills"
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Francois Couperin
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Who composed "the Nightingale in love"
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Francois Couperin
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Musical structure of character pieces?
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Ternary
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Character pieces helped to _________ music
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Poeticize (make it speak)
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Who was the Czech composer who wrote of shepherds' feelings over their lifetime (blended character and program music)
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Tomasek
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who compared similarities between landscape painting painting and music?
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Schiller
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What similarities did Schiller say existed btw landscape painting and music?
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Neither possesed fixed content
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Name the volume and collection of volumes in which Liszt mixed engravings of places he described in each musical piece
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Collection of volumes: Annees
Volume 1: Switzerland |
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Who made a collection of musical pieces and for each piece, a mixed engravings of the place that piece described
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Liszt
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Which of Liszt's Annees included an actual excerpt of Schiller's poetry?
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Beside a Spring
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Liszt believed fusion of literary with music could help music to _____________ but not to ________.
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communicate, narrate
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Name Schumann's 6 principal cycles of character pieces
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Butterflies, Dances of the Band of David, Carnival, Fantasy Pieces, Scnese from Childhood, Kreisleriana
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Schumann's "Butterflies" was based on a masked ball scene from a novel of what German Romantic writer?
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Jean Paul
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Schumann described his piano compositions as what 2 categories
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characteristic music
pictorial music |
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describe pictorial music
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portrays external real-life events
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Cycle vs collection of musical pieces
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cycle - later works in the cycle might reference some of the earlier works
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Schumann was a fan of this composer, and used binary forms characteristic of this composers waltzes and dances
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Schubert
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Name one unifying fact regarding musical structure of Schumann's cycle "Butterflies"
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all but one are in triple time
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2 absolute music composers of 1830s
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Mendelssohn and Chopin
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Who composed "Songs without Words"
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Mendelssohn
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Name 3 of the Songs without Words
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Venetian Gondolier's Song
Duet Folk Song |
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Venetian Gondolier's Song by Mendelssohn is characteristic of what genre
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barcarolle
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To whose composition did Chopin dedicate his Preludes, Op. 24 to?
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J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
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How did Chopin organize his Preludes, Op. 24 w regard to keys?
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Each part consisted of a prelude then a fugue in the same key
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What Polish poet inspired Chopin's ballades?
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Adam Mickiewicz
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Which two composers seemed to believe music could narrate, w/o any words or stories?
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Chopin and Mendelssohn
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Which composer's nocturnes were inspired by Bellini's Casta diva from Norma?
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Chopin
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who's later works were filed with chromaticism
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chopin
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At end of his life, whose poetry did Schumann turn to?
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Heine
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Who, late in his life, became a fan of much of Hiene's early poetry?
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Schumann
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Name 3 poets that influenced Mendelssohn's lieds
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Goethe, Schiller, Heine
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Name the first orchestral song cycle and its composer
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Berlioz's "The Nights of Summer"
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What year was Schumann's "Year of Song"
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1840
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Name 3 of Schumann's cycles on poems
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Song Cycle, Dicterliebe, A Women's Love and Life
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Name 2 ironic songs in Shumann's Dicterliebe
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Ich grolle nicht and A Boy Loves a Girl
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What was Liszt's nationality?
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Hungarian
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Name 5 composers Liszt praised
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Berlioz, Meyerbeer,Beethoven, Panani, Wagner
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this composer was a musical director in Dusseldorf
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Felix Mendelssohn
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What one adjective describes Beethoven's Pasotral Symphony
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pictorial
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Musical structure of Fantastique's 2nd movement
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ternary
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who wrote about Harold in Italy in Schumann's newspaper?
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Lizst
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which composer invented the symphonic poem
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Lizst
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how many movements in a symphonic poem
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1
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which two greek mythical creatures did Lizst adore?
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Promethius and Orpheus
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Which composer was influenced by the French poet Lamartine?
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Liszt
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Which composers did Hanslick most despise?
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Berlioz, Lizst
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4 greatest piano composers of early 1800s
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Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn
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Who had an affair w a Parisian countess?
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Liszt
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Who did Liszt have an affair with?
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Parisian countess (she got preggers so they flew to switzerland and he composed "Suisse"
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who composed "Carnival, Op. 6"?
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Schumann
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which of schumann's band of david personalities is represented in Carnival? 1 trait of the personality?
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Eusebius - dreamy
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carnival was what kind of opera?
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Comedia del arte (masked singers)
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compare musical styles of Schuman and Liszt
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Liszt - more virtuosic
Schumann - poetic |
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Felix Mendelssohn's 2 most famous pieces
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oratorios: St. Paul and Elijah
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which composer wanted to revive Bach's music?
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Felix Mendelssohn
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which composer's music did Felix Mendelssohn want to revive?
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Bach
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Which composer wrote the 2 polish dances Mazurkas and Polonaise
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Chopin
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Who wrote the nocturnes?
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Chopin
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what is the musical structure of a nocturne
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ternary
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To who did Chopin dedicate his Revolutionary Etude?
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Liszt (in attempt to challenge him)
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In 1848, what happened to Chancellor Metternich
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resigned and fled to england
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What communist text was written in 1848?
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communist manifesto
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What year did the Dresden Uprising occur?
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1849
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Name 2 people who tookk part in Dresden Uprising?
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Richard Wagner and Mikhail Bakunin
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What were the 3 purposes of the Dresden uprising?
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democratic reform
capitalism is evil constitutional marchy |
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Where did Wagner flee after Dresden Uprising?
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Switz
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Name 3 outcomes of the uprisings of 1848
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1) universal male suffrage in France and Switz
2) abolishment of serfdom in Russia 3) unification of italy and Germany, respectively |
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Who said "we have been beaten and humiliated" after uprisings of 1848?
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Proudhon
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what book and its author found a broader audience in 1850s as pessimism spread?
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Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation
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what german philospher influenced Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and The Ring of the Nibelung
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Schopenhauer
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Schopenhauer influenced which 2 pieces of Wagner
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Tristan and isolde
The Ring of the Nibelung |
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Who wrote The Epigones
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Karl Immermann
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Describe the book "The Epigones"
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Takes a cynical view of rising industrialsim and worship of money by middle class
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What music critic argued music was in period of decline after the "sublime" phase of bach?
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van Bruyck
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greatest pessimist of late 19th century (philospher)
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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What's the name of Nietzsche's book In which he argues that Wagner will bring cultural regeneration?
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The birth of tragedy
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Name the Irish writer imorisoned in London for sodomy and gross indency?
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Oscar Wilde
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Who envisioned a social and cultural order in which a "overman" would transcend nihilism and transfigure life?
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Nietzsche
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Which "paints in tones as well as communicate ideas/feelings"? (Absolute or program)
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Program
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Was Pastoral Symphony absolute or program style of music?
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program
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what was the name of the actress that inspired symphony fantastique
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Harriet Smithson
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Who wrote a rebuttal to Hanslick attack on Berlioz's program music?
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Liszt
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Who was forerunner of character music?
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Couperin
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Whose poetry inspired Tomasek's Ecologues (about shepards)
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Theocritus and Virgil
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Who compared composers to landscape painters?
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Schiller
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Which of Chopin's pieces represented Bellini style singing?
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Nocturne in Bb minor
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Name Schumann's cycle based on Heine
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"Song cycle"
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His book Thus Snake Zarathustra talked about a "overman" who'd transcend mankind
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Nietshce
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After Romanticism ended, what change occured w/ singing?
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Sung more like speech
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Name the 4 post-romantic "isms"
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historicism, nationalism, materialism, realism
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What city did the "Mighty handful" base themselves out of?
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St. Petersburg
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Who wrote libretto for Boris G.?
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Pushkin
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Name notable musical fact about Boris G.?
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uses octatonic scale
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He is known as father of Czech music?
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Smetana
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Name 3 Czech dances
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polka, skocna, furiant
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What composer went to US to direct Nat. Cons. of Music in NYC?
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Dvorak
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He was a russian anarchist in Dresden
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Bukanin
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He was a renowned French anarchist/revolutionary
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Proudhon
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Who was Karl Kahlert?
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music critic
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Who was Eduard Kruger?
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German writer of music
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Who wrote Epigones?
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Immerman
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Who was van Bruyck?
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music critic
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Writer of "Critique of Pure Reason"
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Kant
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Who wrote "On the Sensations of Tone", "On the Physiological Causes of Harmony in Music", and "On the Relation of Optics to Painting"?
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Helmholtz
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French chemist and pioneer of photography
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Daguerre
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Name 2 french realist painters
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Courbet, Manet
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he wrote Madame Bovary
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Flaubert
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French novelist who wrote Nana
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Zola
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composed opera "La Traviata"
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Verdi
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What are Mahler's most famous symphonies
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6th and 7th
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composed "Don Quixote"
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Strauss
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Who was Siegfried Kracauer?
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cultural critic
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WHo was Johann Nikolaus Forkel
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biographer of JS Bach
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Name 2 of Brahm's famous pieces
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"A German Requiem", Song of Triumph
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WHo was Giuseppe Mazzini
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italian philospher
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Who composed Mastersingers
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Wagner
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Who composed The Emperor's March
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Wagner
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Who was Otto von Bismarck
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german chancellor
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WHo was Mily Balakirev
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russian composer
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WHo was a chemist, doctor, and Russian composer
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Borodin
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who was a army officer and russian composer?
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Mussorgsky (wrote Boris G)
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who was a naval cadet and russian composer
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Rimsky-Korsakov
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WHo composed "The Bartered Bride","My Country", and "Vltava/The Moldau"
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Smetana
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who composed "The new world"
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Dvorak
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