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Module 11 Flashcards

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Romanticism

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  • Began in early 1800s
  • As a reaction to the neoclassical love of reason and order that dominated the previous century
  • Who championed creativity and artistic freedom
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Emotional Subjectivity

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  • Extreme emotional states was a hallmark of this era
    ~Used bold colors
    ~Subjects in motion
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Tone color

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-Romantic musicians like using bold tone color
~Unique sound of a musical instrument
-New instruments were developed
~Triangle 
~Tuba 
~Concert Harp
~Celesta 
-Pyotr Tchaikoysky
~The story of Romeo and Juliet perfectly captures the young lovers and a fiery intense of the sward fights between the dulling families
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The Erotica

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  • Descriptive title

- Rather than generic one

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The Raft of the Medusa

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  • The highly controversial 1816 shipwreck of a French navel vessel
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Eugene Delacroix

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-Liberty Leading the People
~Depicts the allegorical figure of liberty at the head of a motley crowd of French revolutionaries all social classes
~July revolution of 1830, a rebellion that dethroned King Charles the tenth

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Frederic Chopin

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-A Poland composer that promoted nationalism by incorporating folk music
~Many pieces are written in the style of Polish folk tunes and dances like a Zika

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Clara Wieck Schumann

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-Wrote music with allegorically political lyrics

~Forward

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Bedrich Smetana

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-Combined the themes of nationalism and nature

~Die Moldau an orchestral piece that takes the listener on a musical journey along the river of Latifah

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John Constable

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-Recreated sweeping landscapes like Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows painted in 1831

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Realms of Fantasy

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-Exploration of all things fantastic, including the idyllic, the irrational, the world of dreams, and the surreal was encouraged during the Romantic Era

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Felix Mendelssohn

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-Musical depiction of mischievous varies in its overture

~Midsummer Night’s dream

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Francisco de Goya

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-Painting witches’ sabbath

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Hector Berlioz

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  • Fifth movement of Fantastic Symphony titled Dreams of A Witches Sabbath
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Adding exotics sound to compositions

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-Avoiding traditionally western scales, creating unusual harmonies and using innovative compositional practices

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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  • Symphonic poem based on the story of Arabian Nights
    ~Scheherazade a musical depiction of the legendary harem storyteller who kept herself alive through her ability to charm a cruel emperor with her in thrall entails
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Ludwig Van Beethoven

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  • Moonlight Sonata
  • Fur Elise
  • Ode to Joy
  • Fifth Symphony
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Franz Schubert

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  • Prolific songwriter whose career was cut short by an early death from syphilis
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Lieder

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-Mean SONGS in German
-In classical music it means
~German songs from the Romantic period for the piano and voice

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Schubertiades

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-Musical parties

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Franz Liszt

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-A piano virtuoso who showed off his skills on trans-European concert tours

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Lisztomania

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-A craze that swept Europe

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New German School of Music

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-Expanded musical forms and new harmonies

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Transcriptions

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-Rewriting orchestral music so that it could be played on the piano

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Frederic Chopin

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-Was very shy and hated to preform in public

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Character Pieces

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-Short, one movement works

~Created for home performances on the piano

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Giuseppe Verdi

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-Known mainly for his operas
~La Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto
~The Brindisi (a drinking song) from La Traviata

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Risorgimento

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-Italian political movement that sought to unify Italy

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Robert Schumann

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-Focused on composition and started New Journal of Music

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New Journal of Music

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  • Critiqued new music, reviewed concerts, helped promote new composers, and revived interest in the music of older ones
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Clara Wieck

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-Talented pianist and composer

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Johannes Brahms

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  • Discovered by Robert Schumann, who became his mentor and guide
  • Was more traditional than most romantics and deeply inspired by the music of the two previous eras especially that of Bach and Mozart
  • He was his own harshest critique by destroying hundreds of works that he believed weren’t good enough to be preformed
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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-Inextricably linked to the magical worlds he created for the ballet with music such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Swan Lake’
-His music for ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet is some of the most often performed music in the world
-He was a master of orchestral music that extended beyond the ballet stage
-Other notable works
~1812 Overture
~The love theme from the Romeo and Juliet Overture
~First Piano concerto

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