Romantic Era

Question 1

Absolute music:

Answer 1

Romantic, but with no program behind it.

Question 2

Program music:

Answer 2

Music built around text but is not stated in the piece. Story behind the piece! Berlioz or Schubert’s spinning wheel

Question 3

Florestan & Eusebius:

Answer 3

Made up characters by Schumann when he went crazy…
Floristan: pompous, major, joyous
Eusebius: mellow, evil, minor

Question 4

Idee fixe:

Answer 4

“Fixed idea”
A melody used to represent an idea
Berlioz and his obsession over his love!

Question 5

Romanticism:

Answer 5

Focusing on melody, emotion, novelty, and individuality

Question 6

Bel canto:

Answer 6

“Beautiful singing”

Style of singing with lyrical lines, effortless technique, and florid delivery perfected by Rossini and Verdi

Question 7

Melodrama:

Answer 7

Combined spoken dialogue with background music- almost musical theatre in opera
Made famous by Weber!!!

Question 8

Nationalism:

Answer 8

Unifying a particular group of people by creating a national identity through shared characteristics

• harmony/modes (match the folk music)
• rhythms (polonaise rhythm)
• language (operas in your language/folk legends)

Question 9

Verismo:

Answer 9

An opera that focuses on real events rather than realism in literature…
Everyday people- especially lower class.. Events that are brutal

Question 10

Gesamtkunstwerk:

Answer 10

Drama and music combined into a total collective work- poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music working together perfected by Wagner! ART WAS RELIGION!!

Question 11

Leitmotiv:

Answer 11

Leading motive or theme that is mention every time the subject is discussed

Question 12

The Mighty Five:

Answer 12

BBC MR

Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov

Question 13

Thematic transformation:

Answer 13

Pioneered by Liszt: material providing unity, variety, and narrative like logic by transforming thematic material to reflect moods

Question 14

Avant- guard:

Answer 14

French artists who saw themselves as a vanguard exploring new territory- art that seeks to overthrow the normal

Question 15

Klangfarbenmelodie:

Answer 15

(Tone-color melody) Schoenberg’s concept in which changes of tone color are perceived as parallel to changing pitches

Question 16

Neoclassicism:

Answer 16

A broad movement in which composers revived, imitated or evoked the styles and genres of pre-romantic era

Question 17

Serialism:

Answer 17

Mathematics- also known as twelve tone row. Changed to include now rhythms that repeated!

Question 18

Source music:

Answer 18

Music that is heard or performed by the characters themselves in the film

Question 19

Les Six:

Answer 19

AMPTHD (amp- theD)

Auric, Milhaud, Poulenc, Tailleferre, Honegger, Durey

Question 20

New Objectivity:

Answer 20

A movement opposing complexity- promoting familiar elements instead (borrowing from classical and baroque procedures)
MUSIC SHOULD BE EXPRESSIVE