Quiz 4

Question 1

What is a leitmotif

Answer 1

a snippet of music made for the specific intention of evoking an image or

Question 2

What was the cult of individual feeling?

Answer 2

the premium placed on feelings above religion, custom or anything else

Question 3

What marked the Romantic movement’s history

Answer 3

1. Libertarian politics

2. Breach of aristorcacy, rise of other classes

Question 4

What did Romantic artists think of barriers?

Answer 4

NOTHING

Question 5

What did Romantic artists think of other arts?

Answer 5

tried to integrate their messages into music

Question 6

What is distinctive of Romantic melody?

Answer 6

more emotion in higher climaxes and more variance in rhythm

Question 7

What is Romantic Chromaticism?

Answer 7

Pursuing all 12 notes of the chromatic scale

Question 8

What is thematic unity?

Answer 8

Each movement of a piece is a variance of the other

Question 9

What does idee fixe mean (Berlioz)?

Answer 9

obsession within a piece

Question 10

How does the idee fixe play out in symphony fantastique?

Answer 10

Berlioz’s slow struggle to reach higher and higher pitches within the piece

Question 11

What is the principle behind Gesamtkunstwerk?

Answer 11

Music should have drama and a telos behind it Example of Tristan and Isolde

Question 12

What are Debussy’s three nocturnes?

Answer 12

clouds, festivals, sirens

Question 13

What is a nocturne?

Answer 13

piece evoking a night scene