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romantic pd when

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1800-1900ish

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romantic pd emphasized

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emotion, imagination, individualism, introspection, encounters with sublime in arts and nature

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nationalism

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recreation, representation, celebration of own ethnic/national identity

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exoticism

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recreation, representation, celebration of foreign ethnic/natl identity or scene; kind of unrealistic and based on audience expectations

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program music

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inst music assc with story, poem, idea, scene; something extramusical; descriptive title

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program music which genres example

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concert overture, symphonic poem

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absolute music

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inst music not intended to portray specific imagery; generic title

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chromatic harmony/chromaticism

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use of chords + pitches not included in a key or not within diatonic tonal sys of maj + min keys

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chromatic harmony effect

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more emotional effect; loosening of aural sense of key + tonic

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schubert when

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1797-1828

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schubert what

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composer + pianist

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schubert big genre + how many

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lieder, 600+

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schubert born and lived where

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vienna, austria

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schubert influence

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beethoven

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song cycle/lied cycle

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collection of lieder/art songs published together as a set, with other unifying characteristics

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song cycle shared musical chars

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related key ptn, reappearance of motives

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song cycle shared nonmus chars

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poems by same poet, poems with same subject matter, poems with same perspective

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cyclic principle > what makes a multi mvt work a cycle

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have unifying characteristics

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art song form

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strophic, modified strophic, through-composed

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modified strophic form

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some verses set to same music but others differ, usually near end

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through-composed

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no repeated sections; no stanzas set to same music

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postlude/piano postlude

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piano music at end of art song after vocalist finishes singing

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rubato

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varying time; slowing down or speeding up > big chopin moment

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character piece what

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genre for solo piano, one mvt, brief, with descriptive title

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character piece texture usually
homophonic
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char piece model
bel canto aria
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etude
technically difficult studies and also beautiful; char piece
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mazurka what and chars
stylized bohemian dance; triple meter, fast tempo
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nocturne chars
night... piece; kind of melancholy; char piece
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polonaise (de concert by popper) what and characteristics
dance, triple meter, moderato
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prelude
you know the part that comes before??? usually improvised or has that quality; char piece
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mendelssohn <3 performance of st matthew passion when
1829
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mendelssohn <3 performance of st matthew passion impact
bach revival; historic focus of concert programs. this piece had never been heard outside of leipzig before this
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historic focus of concerts when
1830 ish
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shakespeare importance
inspired a lot of music > concert overtures, operas
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shakespeare when
1565-1616
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verdi when
1813-1901
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verdi what
dominant opera composer in italy before puccinif
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verdi big operas
rigoletto, il trovatore, il traviata
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verdi based operas on what
successful plays + novels, history
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giacomo puccini when
1858-1924
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puccini what
composer, known for operas, after verdi
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puccini big operas
la boheme, tosca, madama butterfly
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puccini operas based on
contemp novels and plays; focus on realism
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opera genres
seria/grand, buffa/comique
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serious opera genres
seria (ital) + grand (french)
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grand opera
french genre; lots of crazy spectacle
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grand opera focus
historic
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grand opera appealed to
middle class parisians
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comic opera
buffa (ital) and comique (french)
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spoken dialogue opera
opera comique
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prima donna
principle female role in opera
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19th cent opera libretto nature + subject
usually plays, novels, history, or contemp
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staccato
hehe free space
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legato
hahaaaa
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madama butterfly act 1 story
pinkerton is an american idiot unimpressed by japan; sharpless is caring. butterfly comes from a wealthy family that fell on hard times and is a geisha at 15. her dad killed himself. she is disowned by her family for renouncing her culture and religion for an American husband. "most beautiful butterflies often impaled with a pin."
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madama butterfly act 2 pt1 story
pinkerton has left; butterfly pictures scene of his return in un bel di vedremo. sharpless comes with Pinkerton letter which says he's leaving her and butterfly doesn't understand. she says if he leaves her she could be a geisha again but shed rather kill herself. we learn she has a kid by Pinkerton.
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butterfly act 2 pt 2 story
pinkerton appears with his new wife to ensure butterflys kid is raised in the right American way. butterfly finds out, dismisses them, tells them to return in half an hour, says bye to the kid, and stabs herself; Pinkerton seems to care about this?
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wagner when
1813-1883
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wagner what
opera composer and innovator, tastemaker, nationalist
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wagner group was called
new german school
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wagner what types of music as evolutionary steps
program music > program symphony, symph poem
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wagner chars
more chromatic harmony, novel formal structures
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wagner most famous operas
flying dutchman, tannhauser, lohengrin
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wagner new opera genre
music drama
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wagner total artwork
gesamtkunstwerk
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wagner patron
ludwig 2
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wagner single most famous work
grand cycle of 4 gramas, ring cycle
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dramas in the ring cycle
das rheingold, die walkure, siegfried, gotter-dammerung
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ring cycle based on
norse mythology + politics of war
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music drama chars
norse myth, endless melody, chromatic harmony, very large orchestra carries leitmotif, heavy (set) vocal role
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clara schumann piano trio in g minor op 17 mvt 1 form
sonata
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robert schumann frauenliebe and leben mvt 1 seit ich ihn gesehen form
strophic
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robert schumann frauenlieve und leben mvt 8 nun hast du mir den ersten schmerz getan form
through composed
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chopin mazurka no13 in amin op17 no4 FORM
ternary > a-b-a'
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mendelssohn midsummer nights dream op21 genre/category
program music > concert overture
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wagner die walkure act 3 scene 3 plot part
brunnhildes immortality is taken from her but she comes to a compromise where at least shes protected as she lays on the mountainside
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puccini madama butterfly act 2 un bel di vedremo plot
picturing pinkertons return and her joy
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concerto/solo concerto
large-ensemble music, multi-mvt, soloist w orchestra
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concert overture
1mvt, for orchestra, desc title
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concert overture form
sonata (so like a symphony first mvt)
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double concerto
multi solo concerto
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lied/art song texture
monody
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lied/art song ensemble
solo voice, piano or orch accomp
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lied/art song what
musical setting of poem
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opera buffa
comic opera; contemp situations + characters
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opera comique
comic opera; spoken dialogue
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opera seria
serious opera, three acts; historical or legend
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piano quintet
piano + string quartet
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piano trio
piano violin cello
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sonata
either one piano or instrument and piano accomp
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symphony
multi-mvt genre for orchestra
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symphony mvts
4 > sonata, theme+var, dance, rondo/sonata
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opera seria nbr acts
3
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opera seria subject
hist or legend
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buffa subject
contemp + common ppl
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chopin when
1810-1849
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chopin where
poland but then moved to fr
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chopin composed for
piano + other inst
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berlioz when
1803-1869 3oz - haha 69 like the dude from symph fant wants to do with that girl
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berlioz where
fr
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berlioz chars
progressive, advocated for prog music
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berlioz what
tastemaker
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belrioz treatise on orchestration
how to write for orchestra, romantically
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TCHAIK 🗣️🗣️ when
1840-1893
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tchaiky which ballets
swan lake, sleebing beauty, nutcracker
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tchaik studied where
st petahsberg concervatory
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tchaik prof where
moscow conserv
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russian 5/mighty handful
balakirev, cui, mussorgsky, korsakov, borodin
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dvorak when
1841-1904
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dvorak where
czech
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beach when
1867-1944
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beach what
nationalist; have to be raised in a country to use its music
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minstrel music/minstrelsy
u know
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ballet/ballet score
dance + music; music alone is ballet score
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wind quintet
flute, oboe, clarinet, fr horn, bassoon
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dvorak source of indig music for us nationalist works
burleigh > plantation music
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dvorak source of indig music in czech natl works
bohemian/east eu
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beach gaelic symphony response to dvorak how
inspired by irish > important in hx of new england (she was from Boston)
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dvorak and beach agreed on use of appropriate nationalistic mtls how
reflection of diverse elements of a countrys heritage

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