Listening to Music Quiz 5

Question 1

Romantic Era

Answer 1

1820-1900

Question 2

Romantic subjects

Answer 2

nature
love
death
mysticism/spirituality
superman/heroism
brotherhood of man

Question 3

programatic music

Answer 3

the music is specifically trying to express something

Question 4

Hector Berlioz

Answer 4

1803-1869
wrote many programmatic works
uses unusual instruments/techniques to evoke sounds that are specific
used col legno
Fantasia Mystique
idee fixe

Question 5

col legno

Answer 5

flip the bow and hit the strings with the wood part of the bow

Question 6

idee fixe

Answer 6

fixed idea

every part represents the idea

Question 7

art song

Answer 7

piece to represent art

piano with a voice at its core

Question 8

song cycle

Answer 8

multiple art song that relate to each other

Question 9

Schubert (1797-1828)

Answer 9

wrote art songs

Question 10

piano music in the romantic era

Answer 10

nocturnes
ballades
-slower song
impromptu
-made to sound improvised
fantasie
songs without words

Question 11

composers of the romantic era

Answer 11

Schumann
Clara Weick Schumann
Chopin
Franz Liszt

Question 12

Chopin

Answer 12

one of biggest names in piano music
wrote mazurkas and polonaise
-polish fold dances
lived with George Sand (Aurore Dupin)
died at 39
used lots of Rubato (theme of Romantic era)

Question 13

Liszt

Answer 13

greatest piano virtuoso of his century

Question 14

Opera of the romantic era

Answer 14

plot became more important
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Donizetti
Puccini

Question 15

Verdi

Answer 15

used librettos from earlier operas

Question 16

German Romantic Opera

Answer 16

magic, mystery, supernatural

Richard Wagner

Question 17

Wagner

Answer 17

unsuccessful at first
dated Franz Lists’ daughter
she used her influence to have an opera house built for Wagner

Question 18

Wagner ambitions

Answer 18

wanted to write gesamkunstwerk
-music dramas
did all the directing, writing, staging himself
uses light motif

Question 19

leitmotif

Answer 19

like idee fixe

Question 20

Ring Cycle

Answer 20

Wagner
4 operas - 15 hours
-Ring of the Nibelungen
--Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
--Die Walkure (The Valkyrie)
--Siegfried
--Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods)

Question 21

2 movements

Answer 21

progressive

conservative

Question 22

Progressive members

Answer 22

Wagner

• Liszt
• Strauss

Question 23

Progressive ideals

Answer 23

emotion over form
expand harmony away from the tonic
wandering tonality
extra-musical ideas
very vague

Question 24

conservative members

Answer 24

Brahms

-Schumanns

Question 25

Conservative ideals

Answer 25

tone and form should be recognizable

minimal extra-musical ideas

Question 26

Brahms (1833-1897)

Answer 26

extension of Beethoven

Question 27

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Answer 27

between progressive and conservative

-grew up on military base - uses brass heavily in pieces

Question 28

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Answer 28

wrote tone poems

• highly programmatic orchestral work
• -usually one movement

Question 29

nationalism

Answer 29

incorporating one’s national identity into songs

tourist nationalism: traveling to another country and writing in their style

Question 30

mighty five

Answer 30

five Russian composers who are extremely nationalistic

• Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
• -Scheherazade
• Borodin
• Cui
• Balakilev

Question 31

Tchaikovsky

Answer 31

wrote mostly ballads

1812 Overtrue

Question 32

Dvorak

Answer 32

interacted with African Americans

Question 33

Impressionism artists

Answer 33

Debussy (1862-1918)

Ravel (1875-1937)

Question 34

Debussy

Answer 34

incorporated asian scales and gamelan into his music

Question 35

impressionism charactersitics

Answer 35

more delicate tone colors
de-emphasized solid, symmetrical rhythms
incorporated nontraditional scales
-pentatonic
-chromatic
-whole-tone
harmony

Question 36

Ravel

Answer 36

Bolero