Romantic Flashcards
Program music
Piece of music with idea attached
Ex. Program symphony, concert overture, tone poem
Art song
German
Singer and piano
Piano helps tell the story
Lied
Plural form-lieder
Art song in German
Song cycle
Collection of lieder often about one thing
2 types of art song
Strophic
Through composed
Strophic
Same music for every verse
Through composed
Music changes as piece progresses
Tone poem
Symphonic music
Poem is written first
Music is written second
Program music
Program symphony
Symphony where each movement or symphony has an idea attached to it
Concert overtures
Program music
Can stand by itself
Incidental music
Program music
Background music
Usually occurs with something
Nationalism
Idea of writing music native to ones homeland
Exoticism
Music about a far away land
Russian nationalist
Russian 5
Tchaikovsky
Czech nationalists
Dvorak
Smetana