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Romanticism was a reaction to the…

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Classicism

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Artists expressing their own unique views of the world

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Individualism

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Uninhibited expressions of human emotions and passions

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Heightened emotionalism

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Yearning for the unattainable, in German

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Sehnsucht (longing)

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Growing pessimism beginning to permeate the works of writers, artists, and musicians, in German

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Weltschmerz (world-weariness)

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Fascination with the distant and foreign

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Exoticism

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Piano music influenced by folk song and dance

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Nationalism

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Harmony in the romantic era explored the use of…

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New tonal centers: mediant and submediant
Modal harmony

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Rhythm in romantic era used cross-rhythms or otherwise known as…

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Hemiola

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Character pieces

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Impromptu, Berceuses, Polanaise, Barcarolles, Prélude, Waltz, Fantasies, Nocturnes, Ballad, Sonata, Variations

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The expansion of the orchestra included…

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Harp, piccolo, English horn, trombone, tuba and contrabassoon

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Technological improvements to the piano included…

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Cast iron frame that supported thicker strings, and double escapement

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The action allowed for rapid repetition of individual keys

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Double escapement

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Instrumental music with extra musical associations to literature, poetry, and visual art

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Programmatic elements

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Beautiful singing, in Italian

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bel canto

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Composer of “Trout” Quintet

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Franz Schubert

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Composed 600 German Lieders

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Franz Schubert

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Classical traits included: Symmetrical phrase structures and size and makeup of orchestras

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Franz Schubert

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Two things of contrast being together, ie: Major and minor tonality

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Juxtaposition

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They increased the role of the piano in art songs: piano accompaniment often depicts specific elements of the poem

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Schubert

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A composition written for five instruments, including the piano

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Piano quintet

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Pianist, organist, conductor, and composer

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Born in Vienna

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Franz Schubert

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Born in Hamburg, Germany

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Founded Leipzig conservatory, regarded as the finest school

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Felix Mendelssohn

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“Mozart of the 19th century”

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Felix Mendelssohn

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A close study of Bach’s music led to a live of counterpoint and part-writing

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Influenced by the choral techniques in Hansel’s oratorios

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Felix Mendelssohn

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They used rapid leggier string passages and chordal texture in the winds

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Felix Mendelssohn

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youthful exuberance, lyricism, and imaginative use of orchestral colour

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Music used in a film or play as background to create or enhance a particular atmosphere

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Incidental Music

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Piece that used rapid string crossings, high-pitched harmonics, and spirited spiccato

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Violin Concerto in E minor

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Composer of Violin Concerto in E minor

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Born in Zwickau, Germany

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Robert Schumann

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Composer of Carnaval

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Robert Schumann

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First publication: Abegg Variations

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Robert Schumann

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An instrumental piece, most often for solo piano, based on a programmatic idea

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Character piece

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Played in a soft, intimate manner, in Italian

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sotto voce

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Employed thematic transformation

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Robert Schumann

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Wrote an album of pieces based on his personalities

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Robert Schumann

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Eusebius portrays this feeling

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Dreamy and Nostalgic

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Florestan portrays…

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Furry and passionate side of Schumann

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Only composer who created cryptic codes in their pieces

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Robert Schumann

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Liebst du um Schönheit in English

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If you love for Beauty

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Composer of Liebst du um Schönheit

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Clara Schumann

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Avoided virtuosity or bravura displays

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Clara Schumann

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The musical setting of a poem

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Art song

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Through-composed, in German

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durchkomponiert

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A collection of art songs united by a central theme or narrative thread

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Song cycle

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Showed outright comptent for the opposing camp: Wagner, Liszt and Bruckner

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Clara Schumann

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They placed the piano on an equal footing with the singer

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Clara Schumann

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All voices sing or play the same rhythm

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Homorhythmic texture

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Composer of Ein deutsches Requiem

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Johannes Brahms

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Ein deutsches Requiem, in English

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A German Requiem

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Source of text for Ein deustsches Requiem

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Old and New testaments of the German Lutheran Bible

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Born in Raiding, Hungary (Just outside Vienna, Austria)

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Franz Liszt

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Composer of La Campanella

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Franz Liszt

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Studied with Carl Czerny

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Franz Liszt

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Worked at Weimar

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Franz Liszt

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Term for translating symphonies, opera arias, Lieders, etc into piano pieces

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Piano transcriptions

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Wrote piano transcriptions

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Franz Liszt

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Credited for inventing the symphonic poem

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Franz Liszt

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Cyclical structure or idée fixe, in Liszt

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Thematic transformation

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La Campanella, in English

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The Little Bell

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La Campanella is a transcription of a violin concerto by…

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Niccolò Paganini

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Born in Roncole, Italy

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Composer of La Triviata

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Piece with librettist as: Franceso Maria Piave

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La Triviata

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La Triviata, in English

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The Lost One

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Based on a play by Alexandre Dumas

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La Triviata

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Composer of Die Walküre

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Richard Wagner

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Born in Leipzig, Germany

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Richard Wagner

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A term used by Wagner to describe his operas

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Music drama

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Gesamtkunstwerk, in English

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Total art work

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Total art work included perfect union of…

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Text, music and stagecraft

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Leitmotif, in English

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Leading motive

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A melodic fragment imbued with meaning, representing a character, place, object, or emotion

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Leitmotif (Leading motive)

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A device perfected by Wagner in his music dramas

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Leitmotif (Leading motive)

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Heldentenor, in English

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Heroic tenor

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A male voice with a high range, possessing incredible strength and stamina

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Heldentenor (Heroic tenor)

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One of the few opera composers to write his own lebrettos

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Richard Wagner

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Die Walküre, in English

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The Valkyrie

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A piece based on Norse mythology and an epic medieval poem called the Ninelungenlied

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Die Walküre

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Composer of Romeo and Juliet Overture

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Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

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A single-movement orchestral work with literary or pictorial associations

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Concert overture

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