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When was the Romantic Period?

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1820-1914

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Who started the period?

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Beethoven

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What was the music in the Romantic period like?

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It wasn’t all about romance and love, it reflected the composer. It became more of an art. Music was bound without words, it broke the old harmonies, the orchestra got louder and got more people, the conductor comes into play more, theme is different.

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What was the concert hall like in the romantic period?

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This is when it started to change, the concert halls become more quiet.

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What was going on in the Romantic Period?

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It was the industrial revolution and times were tough. There was was political uphesion, Europe becomes chaotic

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What did people think about the romantic music?

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It was a way for them to escape, romanticism came together with revolt, art was in the dark side, and there was more of an attraction to God and nature.

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What are Miniature pieces of music?

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It is program music.

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What is program music?

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its instrumental music that has an inspiration behind it.

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Who is Berlioz?

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He had a big part of the program music.

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What does absolute music mean?

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This is when there is no meaning behind the music

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What is thematic transformation?

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It has 5 movements, the forms are tampered with.

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What is Grandios Composition?

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1.5 hours long

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What is Art Song?

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Where music and poetry were intimately fused, its a lead. Piano brings out the meaning of poem. Lied(er)

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What was leider for?

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It was for the home.

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Who is Franz Shubert?

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He was from Vienna, and his gift was writing melodies, he writes lieder, art song. He leads Erl king which is written by Gata.

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What is Through Composed?

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This means that each verse get different/its own music

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What is strophic composed?

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This means when every verse gets the same music.

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Who is Fanny Mendelssohn?

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She was a great composer.

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What was the piano like in the romantic period?

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It was very different, it has a much thicker and fuller sound and has more dynamics.

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What is a character piece?

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Its for a solo piano.

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What is Rubato?

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It robs time, it speeds up and slows down music

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Who is Fredrick Choplin?

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He was the son of a french father and a polish mother. He lived in paris and was a master pianist. He gave piano lessons and wrote many character pieces.

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What is the Mazerka? Polonaise? Nocturn?

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  • Choplin wrote many of them and they were dances for the polish traditions.
  • another dance
  • an evening mood feeling.
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What were character pieces called?

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Preludes

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Who is Robert Schumaun?

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Many of his pieces were programatic, he criticizes music, he was a musician/composer, he’d write poem cycle-take poem with common theme, musically-he leaves you hanging

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Who is Clara Schumaun?

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This was Robert Schumaun’s wife, she was his piano teacher. She was a prodigy and was more talented than her husband. Robert would write his name under her compositions.

27
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Who wrote “forward”? and why?

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Clara Schumaun did because in 1848, there were many failed revolutions, so clara wrote it to call for Germany to start going and move forward.

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Who is Hector Berlioz?

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He wrote symphony fantastique, this has 5 movements. He wasn’t very talented and he wrote this for the love of his life.

29
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Who wrote Idee Fixe and why?

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Hector Berlioz did and it was for the love of his life-shows it in every movement.

30
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Who wrote ‘March to Scaffold’?

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Hector Berlioz and in the 4th movement it has a death mark and a fanfare.

31
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Who wrote “Dream of the Sabbath Night”?

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Hector Berlioz, at the scene of death, the woman he loves is dying. Fugue is at the end along with the dieseré.

32
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Who is Felix Mendelssohn?

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He brought Bach back on market, he was well beyond his years. He wrote concert overtures which was a single movement work for the orchestra with a program.

33
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Who wrote “ Hebrides Overture”?

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Felix Mendelssohn, it represented the sea rushing in and out of the cave.

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Who is Giuseppi Verdi?

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He wrote arias and loves the dramatic parts. He blurs the distinction between recitatives and arias because the recitatives aren’t dramatic enough.

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What pieces did Verdi compose?

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Aida- its about a princess that gets captured
Otello- its about a king that promotes a soldier and the other soldier gets mad, used orchestra to show the dramatic scene.

36
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Who is Recard Wagner?

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He was influential, he revolutionized opera. He renames opera and calls it music drama*. He was a jerk and hitler loved his music, he didn’t care about anyone and he wasn’t a good guy. He breaks down the idea of tonality.

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What is Gesamtheonstwerk?

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It means ‘work of art’, everything of his was, costumes, music and story. Recard Wagner.

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What was orchestra web and who used it?

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It is music that never stops. Recard Wagner uses the orchestra to tell the story, its not an accompaniment anymore.

39
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Who uses Leitmotiv and what is it?

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Recard Wagner, and its a musical representation in the music drama.

40
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Who wrote ‘The Ring’?

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Recard Wagner and it was 4 nights, spear, sleep, sword, fate. A HUGE work.

41
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Who is Tchaikovski?

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He was a russian, but his music sounded western. He wrote programatic works for the orchestra, He also wrote symphonic music, aka Romeo and Juliet.

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What are the 3 themes that Tchaikovski uses to tell the story?

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  1. Friar Lawrence, 2. Vendeta Theme(dramatic) 3. Love Theme
43
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Who wrote ballet pieces?

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Tchaikovski

44
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What is Nationalism in music?

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Its just a movement in music.

45
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Who is Napoleon?

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He would take away liberty, after being defeated he changed to monarchy.

46
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When there were many failed revolutions, how did the composers react?

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They started to write melodies to represent their own cultures. The Folk melodies would show the distinction between them.

47
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The Russian 5?

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They would write music using their melodies.

48
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Who’s Modak Mosorgsky and what did he write?

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He was a russian composer who wrote ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ (5 beats a measure)

49
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Who were the first to compose the melodies of their own cultures?

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Russians

50
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Who is Johannes Brahms?

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He was a traditionalist. He wasn’t nice but he was a prodigy. He was the next Beethoven.

51
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Who is Mahler?

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He embraced ‘music of the future’. He wrote music and distorted it because of all the failed revolutions. He wrote like they’d never have freedom. He wrote DISTORTION.

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How did people react to 20th century time/ music?

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Not many people liked it, technology came into the world and changed it. All the art changed, melodies, harmonies and tonality wall changed, they used alternative scales and dissonance.

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What is Avantgarde?

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Meaning music was at the cutting edge, its not modern. It took place in Paris and Vienna. The composers wanted it in the new age.

54
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Who is Claud Debussy?

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He explores tone and colors in music. ‘Shades of Sound’. He is an impressionist, shading his music was important to him, he cares about what it sounds like (texture) and not what its saying.

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Who is Igor Stravinsky?

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He is a Russian that ends up in Paris and composes ballet pieces. His music was unemotional and he uses russian fragments and rhythms. He composed “The Rite of Spring”. –flute and clarinet.

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Who is Arnold Schoenberg?

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He was an expressionist and he worked in Vienna. his music was unemotional and complex. He used different scales and motives-he tried to shock, like in the scream. He used 12 tone music meaning he’d pul random notes together. All of his followers were the Second Viennese school. He was a pioneer, he started the freeing of music.

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Who’s Aaron Copland?

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He was a traditionalist, he wrote popular music, he had a nationalist agenda, he uses american songs in his compositions. He wrote the “Appalachian Spring” (ballet score)

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