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Paganini

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A virtuoso violinist

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Virtuoso

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VERY talented person on their instrument

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Art song

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Solo voice and piano accompaniment of high artistic aspiration

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Lied (Lieder)

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German form of art song

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Romantic era

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1820-1900

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Rubato

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Manipulating the speed of the rhythm

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Franz Schubert

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1797 through 1828

Composed more than 600 Lieder

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Through composed

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New music on each stanza projects a series of changing moods

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Strophic form

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Same music for each stanza

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Robert Schumann

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1810 through 1856 and grow mentally ill after being married

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Program music

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Instrumental music that tells a story of a historical event or natural wonder

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Absolute music

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Regular straightforward music

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Program symphony

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A genre of program music with 3 to 5 movements

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Hector Berlioz

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1803-1869 original figure in music and became a musical critic and skilled in orchestra

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Symphony Fantastique

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Composed by Berlioz

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Ballet

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Artistic dance that tells a dramatic story

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Sustaining Pedal

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A pedal that holds the notes for a longer period of time

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Soft-pedal

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The pedal that softens notes being played

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Frederic Chopin

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1810 through 1849 poet of the piano born in Warsaw Poland

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Nocturn

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Night peace with slow dreamy composition

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Leitmotif

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Associated with emotions often repeated in a sequential pattern

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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More realistic drama with seamless flow of music

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Richard Wagner

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1813 to 1883 a determined ruthless visionary that exerted enormous influence

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Giuseppe Verdi

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1813 to 1801 most popular opera composer throughout Europe and performed more than anyone else with a domestic fee and personal comfort and intense passion and nonstop action

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Bel Canto

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A style opera with beautiful singing and emphasizes the vocal melodies with little or no counterpoint and simple harmonic support

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Étude

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A short one mvmt composition that improves technique

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Recital

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A Performance

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Franz Liszt

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1811-1886

Great virtuosity in piano wit a flamboyant artistic personality

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Lisztomania

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The woman who tried to take franz’s clothes off

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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1840-1893
Most prolific writer in the 19th century program music
And wrote very well music for ballets

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Chromatic harmony

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The use of notes that are not in the scale but produces harmony

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