Romantic II

Question 1

Gabriel Fauré

Answer 1

• 1845 – 1924
• French/Romantic
• Requiem
• Motets
• 5 secular pieces

Question 2

1846-1848

Answer 2

• Mexican-American War
• Berlioz, Franck, Saint-Saëns

Question 3

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

Answer 3

• 1848 – 1918
• English
• 11 motets, 10 anthems, 4 Te Deums, 4 Services, 7 Hymn tunes
• 13 secular choral, 9 unison songs

Question 4

Charles Stanford

Answer 4

• 1852 – 1924 - English/Late Romantic
• Numerous large choral works
• 3 Latin motets
  
  • Jestorum animae
  • Ceolos ascendit
  • Beati quorum via
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

Question 5

Edward Elgar

Answer 5

• 1857 – 1934
• English – Romantic/Impressionistic
• 85 small works in various voicing
• Representative: The Dream of Gerontius

Question 6

Impressionism 1860 – 1910 - Artists

Answer 6

• Monet, Moret, Degas
• Renoir, Whistler

Question 7

Post-Impressionism – Artists

Answer 7

• Seurat, Cézanne
• Van Gogh, Gauguin

Question 8

1861 – 1865

Answer 8

• American Civil War
• Solo Concerto expands, becomes popular

Question 9

Claude Debussy

Answer 9

• 1862 – 1918
• French, Impressionistic (didn’t consider himself impressionistic)
• Trois Chansons
• La damoiselle elue (2 soloists and women’s choir)
• Invocation (Men)
• Noel (Children)

Question 10

Frederick Delius

Answer 10

• 1862-1934
• English, Romantic/Impressionist
• Part Song
• Mass of Life
• Requiem

Question 11

Horatio Parker

Answer 11

• 1863 – 1919
• American, Studied in Munich
• Prof @ Yale – taught Ives
• Approx. 3 dozen part songs
• Anthems and services
• Oratorio Hora Novissima (The Last Hour)

Question 12

Alexander Gretchaninoff

Answer 12

• 1864 – 1956
• Russian Orthodox
• Liturgical music

Question 13

1866-1900 – poets

Answer 13

• Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain
• English:
  
  • Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti,
  • G.M. Hopkins, Harden, George Elliot, Carroll

Question 14

Amy Beach

Answer 14

• 1867 – 1944
• American
• Over 30 sacred choral in various voicing
• Approx. 30 secular part songs