Romanticism in Classical Forms Flashcards
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choral music prestigiousness
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less than orchestra and opera, written mostly for ammatrues (maybe talented, but unpaid)
2
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3 main types of 1800s choral music
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- short works on secular texts with or w/o accompinament
- oratorios on sacred texts, like opera but not staged and religious
- liturgical works, anthems, hymns, other sacred pieces for church choirs, congregations, or home performance
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choral societies 4
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- amateur chorusses with members paying for expenses
- popular first for wealthy women (Berlin Singakademie)
- men and orchestra added
- developed unity, occupy leisure time, eleveate taste, encourage spiritual and eithical values, practice democracy
4
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festivals 2
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- for singers across region
- forst in 1759, centered on Handel
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partsong 5
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- choral parrallel to lied or parlor song
- 2+ voices unaccompanied or voices doubled on piano/organ
- schubert’s die nacht
- syllabic
- attuned to poetry
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mendellson oratories 5
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- rooted on baroque tradition while creating something new
- wide variety of stules and textures
- unifying motives, links between movemnts
- st paul, ab paul’s conversion w/ comments and interpretation for modern audiance
- conducted bachs st matthew passion, began revival of bach’s music
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handel and haydn 2
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- oratories core of rep for large chorusses
- handel and hayden society founded in boston 1815
8
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hector berlioz’s requiem and te deum
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patritic, grande, long, need many musicians for, inspired by fr revol
9
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recetive
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in oratorio to move story along
10
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catholic music 3
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- clerics and churchboys, women often excluded
- promoted a cappella (came to mean w/o accompaniment, instead of “in the chapel”
- schuberts masses in ab and eb
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jewish music
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often borrowed protestant melodies to make own hymns
12
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protestant music 3
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- building from past
- for services or home devos
- women could perform, oxford movement wanted only men
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usa church music 3
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- divided by race instead of sect
- white similar yo europe
- black developed own style, used shape notes indicating solmization syllables for easy sightreading and reconception of syllables
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lowell Mason 5
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- encouraged modest euro style
- president of h+ h society
- helped found bostom academy of music
- introduced music to regular curriculum
- composed over 1000 hymns
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chamber music 4
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- often as important as symphonies
- often modelled after beet
- string 4tets
- literally for living room, but becomes more concert based and serious
