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Program music

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Piece of music with idea attached

Ex. Program symphony, concert overture, tone poem

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Art song

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German
Singer and piano
Piano helps tell the story

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Lied

Plural form-lieder

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Art song in German

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Song cycle

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Collection of lieder often about one thing

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2 types of art song

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Strophic

Through composed

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Strophic

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Same music for every verse

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Through composed

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Music changes as piece progresses

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Tone poem

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Symphonic music
Poem is written first
Music is written second
Program music

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Program symphony

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Symphony where each movement or symphony has an idea attached to it

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10
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Concert overtures

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Program music

Can stand by itself

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Incidental music

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Program music
Background music
Usually occurs with something

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Nationalism

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Idea of writing music native to ones homeland

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Exoticism

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Music about a far away land

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Russian nationalist

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Russian 5

Tchaikovsky

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Czech nationalists

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Dvorak

Smetana

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Italian nationalist

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The Russian 5

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Cui
Balykiev
Rimsy- korsakov
Borodin
Mussorgsky
18
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Romantic opera

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Verisimo- realism( things that can happen to everyday people)
Became an art form where singing never stops

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Absolute music

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Music for music’s sake

20
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Liszt

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Hungarian
Father worked for Esterhazy 
Gave up music career to be a priest
Piano works, tone poems, orchestral pieces 
"Inventor of tone poems"
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Schubert

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9 symphonies (died of syphilis) 
600+ art songs
Dad- school teacher
Made art song famous
8th symphony- unfinished 
9th symphony "the great"
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Chopin

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Polish
Wrote for the piano
Went to France and stayed there

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Naturne

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Night song

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Schumann

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German
Major piano figure
Marries Clara wieck
Invents a device to strengthen pinky& destroys it
4 symphonies & ton of art songs
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Brahms

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German
"German requiem"
20 years to write 1st symphony 
Neoclassic
Lived with shumann
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Tchaikovsky

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German, gay, tried to kill himself 
"The nutcracker"
"Swan lake" "1812"
Ballet for sleeping beauty
Concert overture- Romeo and Juliet 
6th symphony "pathetic symphony"
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Smetana

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Bohemian
Nationalist
Went deaf
Opera- the battered bride

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Dvorak

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Opera- rusaika
9 symphonies
Employed under smetana
Bohemian
Nationalist 
1st major composer to come to USA
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Verdi

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Italian 
King of opera
Pianist 
Writes verismo operas
2 comical operas
Verdi requiem
30
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Dates of romantic period

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