Mid-1800s: Europe Flashcards
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Bel Canto
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- A style of singing in all of romantic era opera. Literally translates to “beautiful singing”
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Communist Manifesto
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- Political pamphlet written by Karl Marx stating that social classes are defined by the relationship of people to the means of production
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Crimean War
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- War fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula by the British, French, and Ottoman in order to prevent the Russians from moving South
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Indeed Fixe
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- (fixed idea) A recurring theme associated with the image of a thing or characters
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Janissaries
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Elite infantry units of the Ottoman Empire
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July Revolution of 1830
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- A revolution where the House of Bourbon in France was overthrown by liberal revolutionaries who installed a constitutional monarchy with Louis Philippe as its head
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Miniatures
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Works in the areas of chamber music, piano music, and songs that were relatively short and prevalent in the Romantic Era
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Opera buffa
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- comic opera
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Program Music
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Music that is intended to evoke images or convey the impression of events
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Salon
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A gathering of people held by a host
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Serfdom
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- A condition in which a tenant farmer was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord
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Verismo
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Italian for ‘realism’. Verismo is characterized by a story rooted in real life (rather than that of the gods or mythology
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Europe pt.1
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- The July Revolution of 1830 resulted in France turning to a new King and a constitutional monarchy
- This renewed French Revolution sparked uprisings, some successful and some failures, all over Europe against the monarchies
- The revolutions of 1848 were similar and took the revolution even farther
- The Communist Manifesto was published at the time of the riots
- The Ottoman Empire weakened
- Janissaries became obsolete and disbanded
- Russia Maintained serfdom and lagged behind the other powers of Europe
- Russia had grand ambitions of expanding South
- Stopped on the Crimean peninsula by the Ottomans, France, and Great Britain in the Crimean War
- Russia’s defeat forced them to reform and shift their attention from Europe to Asia
- The Italian states are unified by Giuseppe Garibaldi
- The German states ere joined in the German COnfederation but were not quite unified
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Hector Berlioz (symphony)
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- French
- Wrote the Symphonie Fantastique
- Wrote Program Music
- Use of Idee fixe
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Robert Schumann (Miniatures)
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- German
- Married Clara Schumann
- Hand injury ended his dream to be a piano virtuoso
- Influential music critic
- Also wrote German Lieder (songs)
