Romanticism Flashcards

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Romanticism Period

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19th century

1800’s

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2
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Characteristics

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Dramatic
Unclear form
Art
Death
Love
Supernatural
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3
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Schubert

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Composer

Lived in Vienna

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4
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Schubertiade

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Schubert’s salon

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5
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Salon

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Meeting in a regular house; to play chamber music, discuss poetry and art.

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6
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Lied

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German language text song for solo voice and piano, it is programmatic

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7
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Strophic

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Form when the music in a song repeats over and over, but the text changes in each repetition

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8
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Example

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A’A’A’

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9
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Through Composed

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No music repetitions

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10
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Example

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ABCD

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11
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Song Cycle

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Collection of songs, sometimes with a story

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12
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Erlkonig

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Is a lied by Goethe. It is about a child who got fever, and his father couldn’t do anything. Erlkonig was mystic and gets the boy

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13
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Berlioz

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French composer, went to the Paris Conservatoire

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14
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Program Symphony

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Is a genre

Instrumental music

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15
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Simphonie Fantastique

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Composed by Berlioz.
Autobiography of the artist
Extended techniques
Huge orchestra
5 movements
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16
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5 movements

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1) Reveries
2) At a ball
3) In the country
4) March to Scaffold
5) Witches Sabbath

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Idee Fixe

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Idea fixed
Represents the artist
No text

18
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Mighty Five

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5 composers collecting folk songs and incorporating them into Classical music

19
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Musorgsky

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Most famous of the group, composer

20
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Pictures at an Exhibition

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A solo piano collection.

Composed by Musorgsky. Orchestral arrangements by Rimsky- Korsakov

21
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Promenade Theme

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Walking through the art exhibition

22
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Bel Canto

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Style of Romantic, Italian opera that focuses on the beauty and virtuosity of the voice

23
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Verdi

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Opera composer. His operas were very dramatic

Composed La Traviata: a man who falls in love with a prostitute.

24
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Scena ed Aria

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Idea of having a personal leader in the opera

25
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Rossini

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Italian composer of Bel Canto. Re-using music

26
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Opera Seria

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Serious Opera

27
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Opera Buffa

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Funny Opera

28
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Imbroglio

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Chaos part in Opera Buffa at the end of the 1st act

29
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Overture

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Instrumental beginning

30
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Wagner

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Opera composer
German nationalist
He was in contrast of Bel Canto

31
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Music Drama

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Gesamt Kunstwerk= Complete art work

32
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Leitmotive

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Short melody; it can represent a person, feeling,or item in the drama

33
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Ring Cycle

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A set of 4 operas, each has its individual part. Wagner wrote the libretto