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1
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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

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homophonic

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char piece model

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bel canto aria

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etude

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technically difficult studies and also beautiful; char piece

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mazurka what and chars

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stylized bohemian dance; triple meter, fast tempo

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nocturne chars

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night… piece; kind of melancholy; char piece

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polonaise (de concert by popper) what and characteristics

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dance, triple meter, moderato

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prelude

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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

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1829

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mendelssohn <3 performance of st matthew passion impact

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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

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1830 ish

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35
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shakespeare importance

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inspired a lot of music > concert overtures, operas

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36
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shakespeare when

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1565-1616

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37
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verdi when

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1813-1901

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verdi what

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dominant opera composer in italy before puccinif

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verdi big operas

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rigoletto, il trovatore, il traviata

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verdi based operas on what

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successful plays + novels, history

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giacomo puccini when

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1858-1924

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puccini what

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composer, known for operas, after verdi

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43
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puccini big operas

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la boheme, tosca, madama butterfly

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44
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puccini operas based on

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contemp novels and plays; focus on realism

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45
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opera genres

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seria/grand, buffa/comique

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46
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serious opera genres

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seria (ital) + grand (french)

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47
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grand opera

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french genre; lots of crazy spectacle

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48
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grand opera focus

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historic

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grand opera appealed to

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middle class parisians

50
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comic opera

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buffa (ital) and comique (french)

51
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spoken dialogue opera

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opera comique

52
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prima donna

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principle female role in opera

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19th cent opera libretto nature + subject

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usually plays, novels, history, or contemp

54
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staccato

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hehe free space

55
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legato

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hahaaaa

56
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madama butterfly act 1 story

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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

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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

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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

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1813-1883

60
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wagner what

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opera composer and innovator, tastemaker, nationalist

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wagner group was called

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new german school

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wagner what types of music as evolutionary steps

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program music > program symphony, symph poem

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wagner chars

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more chromatic harmony, novel formal structures

64
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wagner most famous operas

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flying dutchman, tannhauser, lohengrin

65
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wagner new opera genre

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music drama

66
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wagner total artwork

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gesamtkunstwerk

67
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wagner patron

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ludwig 2

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wagner single most famous work

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grand cycle of 4 gramas, ring cycle

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dramas in the ring cycle

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das rheingold, die walkure, siegfried, gotter-dammerung

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ring cycle based on

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norse mythology + politics of war

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music drama chars

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norse myth, endless melody, chromatic harmony, very large orchestra carries leitmotif, heavy (set) vocal role

72
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clara schumann piano trio in g minor op 17 mvt 1 form

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sonata

73
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robert schumann frauenliebe and leben mvt 1 seit ich ihn gesehen form

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strophic

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robert schumann frauenlieve und leben mvt 8 nun hast du mir den ersten schmerz getan form

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through composed

75
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chopin mazurka no13 in amin op17 no4 FORM

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ternary > a-b-a’

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mendelssohn midsummer nights dream op21 genre/category

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program music > concert overture

77
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wagner die walkure act 3 scene 3 plot part

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brunnhildes immortality is taken from her but she comes to a compromise where at least shes protected as she lays on the mountainside

78
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puccini madama butterfly act 2 un bel di vedremo plot

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picturing pinkertons return and her joy

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concerto/solo concerto

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large-ensemble music, multi-mvt, soloist w orchestra

80
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concert overture

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1mvt, for orchestra, desc title

81
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concert overture form

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sonata (so like a symphony first mvt)

82
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double concerto

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multi solo concerto

83
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lied/art song texture

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monody

84
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lied/art song ensemble

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solo voice, piano or orch accomp

85
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lied/art song what

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musical setting of poem

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opera buffa

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comic opera; contemp situations + characters

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opera comique

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comic opera; spoken dialogue

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opera seria

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serious opera, three acts; historical or legend

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piano quintet

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piano + string quartet

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piano trio

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piano violin cello

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sonata

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either one piano or instrument and piano accomp

92
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symphony

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multi-mvt genre for orchestra

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symphony mvts

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4 > sonata, theme+var, dance, rondo/sonata

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opera seria nbr acts

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3

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opera seria subject

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hist or legend

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buffa subject

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contemp + common ppl

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chopin when

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1810-1849

98
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chopin where

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poland but then moved to fr

99
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chopin composed for

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piano + other inst

100
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berlioz when

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1803-1869
3oz - haha 69 like the dude from symph fant wants to do with that girl

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berlioz where

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fr

102
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berlioz chars

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progressive, advocated for prog music

103
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berlioz what

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tastemaker

104
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belrioz treatise on orchestration

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how to write for orchestra, romantically

105
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TCHAIK 🗣️🗣️ when

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1840-1893

106
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tchaiky which ballets

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swan lake, sleebing beauty, nutcracker

107
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tchaik studied where

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st petahsberg concervatory

108
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tchaik prof where

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moscow conserv

109
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russian 5/mighty handful

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balakirev, cui, mussorgsky, korsakov, borodin

110
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dvorak when

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1841-1904

111
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dvorak where

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czech

112
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beach when

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1867-1944

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beach what

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nationalist; have to be raised in a country to use its music

114
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minstrel music/minstrelsy

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u know

115
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ballet/ballet score

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dance + music; music alone is ballet score

116
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wind quintet

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flute, oboe, clarinet, fr horn, bassoon

117
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dvorak source of indig music for us nationalist works

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burleigh > plantation music

118
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dvorak source of indig music in czech natl works

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bohemian/east eu

119
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beach gaelic symphony response to dvorak how

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inspired by irish > important in hx of new england (she was from Boston)

120
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dvorak and beach agreed on use of appropriate nationalistic mtls how

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reflection of diverse elements of a countrys heritage

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