Week 11 Ethnic Identity & Nationalism

Question 1

Kalevala

Answer 1

A poetic name for Finland
Finnish epic (type of poem about heroes) compiled of ballads, lyrical songs, and incantations that were a part of lyrical tradition

Question 2

The Mighty Handful/Five

Answer 2

a group of five Russian composers- Balakirev, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Cuí- who worked together in the 19th century to create a distinct Russian national music
They were inspired by the philosophical movement of realism

Question 3

Smetana

Answer 3

A Czech nationalist composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people’s aspirations to a cultural and political “revival”.

Question 4

Má Vlast

Answer 4

Six tone symphonic poems that are nationalistic
portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer’s native Bohemia.

Question 5

Nationalism

Answer 5

promotion of ethnic or region or national identity aspiration over and against the agemany of empire