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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Romanticism

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Organic unity, spontaneous emotion, death, unrequited love, nature, supernatural

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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German composer, pushed bounds of form

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bildungsroman

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formative, coming of age novel

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Heiligenstadt Testament (1802)

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Beethoven’s letter to his brothers regarding his coming to terms with his deafness and his continued passion for art

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Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832)

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  • Second Berlin school, conservative mind
  • Goethe
  • felt that music only provided a medium for the text
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volkston/volkstümlichkeit

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folk tone, in the sense of folk sound; suggests both folklike simplicity and reflection of national folk character

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Lieder

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German art songs, strophic

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Strophic variation

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“modified strophic” characteristic of Schubert, comparable to variation form in instrumental music

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

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-Viennese composer
-piano, chamber, symphony
-music=text in lied
Die schone Müllerin, Erlkönig, Winterreise

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

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  • German composer and journalist
  • Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (New Music Journal)
  • discusses music and literary form via Davidsbundler
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song cycle

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collection of songs unified in theme and progression

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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

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-Italian opera
-dramma and opera buffa
-lyrical and improvisatory, more dramatic music
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Guillaume Tell

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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

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-German Romantic opera
-Dresden opera
Der Freischutz (The free marksman), Euryanthe

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Der Freischütz

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  • Weber
  • 1821
  • reminiscence themes, organic continuity, magic bullets and musical drama
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Bel canto opera

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“beautiful singing”, embellished melodies and improvisational cadenzas, emphasizes vocal agility and technique

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Scena ed aria

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recitative/arioso-style + cavatina (slow) and cabaletta (fast)

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Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

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  • light Italian opera

- more Romantic approach than Donizetti

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Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

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-Italian opera
- more traditional approach than Bellini
Lucrezia Borgia

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La Sonnambula (1831)

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The Sleepwalker, Bellini

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Felice Romani (1788-1865)

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Italian librettist,

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French Grand Opera

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-more Romantic
-elaborate sets, costumes and stage effects
Meyerbeer, Auber

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Giuseppe Verdi

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-Romantic Italian opera
–librettos from literary sources (Hugo, Byron, Schiller, Shakespeare)
-librettist Francesco Piave
-emotional situations reflect life situations (father figure, dead family)
Nabucco, La Traviata

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Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)

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  • violin virtuoso

- “demonic playing”

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Franz Liszt

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  • Hungarian piano virtuoso

- big tours, regulated the solo recital

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Clara Schumann

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  • composed chamber and piano music
  • performed after Robert’s death
  • established solo recitals from memory
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Frédéric Chopin

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  • Polish/French pianist
  • incorporated native dances (mazurka, polonaise)
  • lyrical style, expressivity, passing chromatic harmonic overloading
  • more fluid and less fiery than Liszt
27
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Mazurka

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Polish dance

28
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Salon

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Intellectual gatherings in homes to discuss culture

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Felix Mendelssohn

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  • German, orchestral music

- concert overture (like an opera overture, with classical sonata or symphonic poem form)

30
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Hector Berlioz

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program symphony

  • idee fixe
  • Symphonie fantastique: Episode de la vie d’un artiste (the romantic artist)
31
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New German School

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  • more musical revolutions
  • founded by Liszt and Wagner
  • Liszt- art is the masterpiece of humanity and humanity is the masterpiece of nature
  • expression over structure
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Richard Strauss

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German composer
-tone poems, harmonic and structural freedom
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Don Quixote, Tod und Verklärung

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Symphonic Poem

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poems expressed in tones rather than words, Lisztian single-movement orchestra works with programmatic content

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Richard Wagner

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New German School
-Gesamtkunstwerk (universal/collective artwork)
-Oper und Drama/ music drama
The Ring, Gotterdammerung, Tristan und Isolde

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leitmotiv/Grundthemen

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musical motive associated with a character in musical dramas

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Eduard Hanslick

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  • anti-Wagnerian music critic
  • Vom musikalisch Schonen (defines music as only beautiful in sound and structure)
  • pro-Brahms
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Der Ring des Nibelungen

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  • four music dramas
  • Norse mythology
  • political libretto exposing the lust for wealth and power
38
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Johannes Brahms

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  • German composer trained in traditions of Mendelssohn and Schumann
  • traditional forms and style on steroids
  • counterpoint master
  • anti-New German School poster child
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Gustav Mahler

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-Viennese progressive out of Romanticism
-German folk poetry and music
Kindertotenlieder, Das Lied von der Erde

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Nationalism

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movement towards national identity (and musical style) and belief in national unification

41
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Exoticism

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Western attempt to adopt other musical traditions (e.g. Madama Butterfly, Carmen)

42
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Verismo

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Italian realist opera, lots of stabbing

  • Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni)
  • I pagliacci
  • violent contrast
  • La Boheme (Puccini)
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Puccini

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Italian opera after Verdi
Verismo
La Boheme (Romantic realism)
Tosca

44
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The Mighty Five (moguchaya kuchka)

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Alexander Borodin (Prince Igor), Cesar Cui, Mily Balakirev, Modest Musorgsk (Boris Godunov) , Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
-incorporated folk and nationalist styles
45
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Second New England School

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German influence, American folk and subcultures
◦ John Knowles Paine
◦ Arthur Foote
◦ George Chadwick
◦ Amy Beach
◦ Edward MacDowell
◦ Horatio Parker

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