Romanticism

Question 1

Franz Schubert

Answer 1

1797-1828

Question 2

The Erlking: 1815

Answer 2

~musical setting of narrative ballas by Goethe
~piano
~four characters: narrator, father, son, erlking (king of elves)
~one singer
~through-composed
~obsessive triplets in piano
~delusional boy sees erlking (erlking) while riding on horseback with his father but is ultimately taken by him

Question 3

recitative

Answer 3

musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note.

Question 4

Program Music

Answer 4

~Instrumental piece of music associated with a story, poem, idea or scene
~aim is expression more than description ~non-program music is called absolute music

Question 5

Program Symphony

Answer 5

composition of several movements
usually has a descriptive title

ex: berlioz’s fantastic symphony
passions
a ball
scene in the country
march to the scaffold
guillotine
dream of a witches sabbath
dies irae

idee fixe (fixed idea)
theme under each part

Question 6

Hector Berlioz

Answer 6

1803-1869
inspired by Beethoven and Shakespeare
french composer and conductor
paris and “young France”
saw Harriet Smithson in theatre
prix de rome

Question 7

berlioz’s fantastic symphony

Answer 7

passions
a ball
scene in the country
march to the scaffold
guillotine
dream of a witches sabbath
dies irae

idee fixe (fixed idea)
theme under each part

program notes
the outline of the instrumental drama, which lacks the help of words