Exam 2 Flashcards
Romanticism
Organic unity, spontaneous emotion, death, unrequited love, nature, supernatural
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
German composer, pushed bounds of form
bildungsroman
formative, coming of age novel
Heiligenstadt Testament (1802)
Beethoven’s letter to his brothers regarding his coming to terms with his deafness and his continued passion for art
Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832)
- Second Berlin school, conservative mind
- Goethe
- felt that music only provided a medium for the text
volkston/volkstümlichkeit
folk tone, in the sense of folk sound; suggests both folklike simplicity and reflection of national folk character
Lieder
German art songs, strophic
Strophic variation
“modified strophic” characteristic of Schubert, comparable to variation form in instrumental music
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
-Viennese composer
-piano, chamber, symphony
-music=text in lied
Die schone Müllerin, Erlkönig, Winterreise
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- German composer and journalist
- Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (New Music Journal)
- discusses music and literary form via Davidsbundler
song cycle
collection of songs unified in theme and progression
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
-Italian opera
-dramma and opera buffa
-lyrical and improvisatory, more dramatic music
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Guillaume Tell
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
-German Romantic opera
-Dresden opera
Der Freischutz (The free marksman), Euryanthe
Der Freischütz
- Weber
- 1821
- reminiscence themes, organic continuity, magic bullets and musical drama
Bel canto opera
“beautiful singing”, embellished melodies and improvisational cadenzas, emphasizes vocal agility and technique
Scena ed aria
recitative/arioso-style + cavatina (slow) and cabaletta (fast)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
- light Italian opera
- more Romantic approach than Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
-Italian opera
- more traditional approach than Bellini
Lucrezia Borgia