Early Romantic Program Music

Question 1

Program Music

Answer 1

A piece of instrumental music associated with a story or extramusical idea.

Question 2

Is lieder programmatic music?

Answer 2

No.

Question 3

Is music with words programmatic music?

Answer 3

No.

Question 4

Programmatic music is ___.

Answer 4

Instrumental.

Question 5

How is programmatic music linked to lied and opera?

Answer 5

They link music to other arts.

Question 6

Program music for orchestra evolved from ___.

Answer 6

Overture.

Question 7

Overture foreshadows ___.

Answer 7

Mood/events.

Question 8

The concert overture is an overture to…

Answer 8

Nothing.

Question 9

The concert overture is a small conceptual leap from ___ overture.

Answer 9

Opera.

Question 10

Is the concert overture meant for theatrical use?

Answer 10

No.

Question 11

The concert overture reflects…

Answer 11

Themes, moods, events, etc. of various literary works.

Question 12

Why is the concert overture called an overture?

Answer 12

It is a single movement in sonata form. You hear a theme that comes back.

Question 13

Who wrote songs without words?

Answer 13

Mendelssohn.

Question 14

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer 14

• Used for theatre eventually.

- Representational of plot elements.

Question 15

Hebrides

Answer 15

By Mendelssohn, inspired by geography not literature.

Question 16

Berlioz

Answer 16

• Well-known for programmatic works (poems, plays, novels, etc.).

Question 17

Who was an experimentalist (form and timber) and a self-promoter?

Answer 17

Berlioz.

Question 18

Idee Fixe

Answer 18

A recurring motto or theme (a fixed idea or obsession) in a large-scale work, somewhat like the later leitmotif. The term was invented by Berlioz for his Symphonie Fantastique.

Question 19

Witches Sabath

Answer 19

• Addition of fifth movement (Beethoven’s influence).
• Transformation of idee fixe.
• Incorporation of “Dies Irae.”
• Free fugue.