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Dates of the Romantic Era
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1825-1900
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What became the most exalted form of absolute orchestral music during the Classical period?
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Symphony
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who looms as the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life of the later 19th century?
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Richard Wagner
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A song cycle written by Shubert which was highly emotional and introduced a somber lyricism new to music
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Winter's Journey
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What music consists of musical patterns that have no literary or pictorial meanings?
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absolute or pure music
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what is a single movement concert piece for orchestra, typically from the Romantic period and often based on literary poem?
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concert overture
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what were Wagner's cycle of four musical dramas called?
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The Ring of the Nibelung
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Who was one of the greatest pianists and showmen of his day?
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Franz Liszt
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what does the first movement generally exhibit basic elements of? this is the most dramatic movement of the romantic symphony.
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sonata allegro form
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the golden age of the acappella style
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the 16th century became known as:
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what is a multimovement programmatic work for orchestras?
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program symphony
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What was Schubert's masterpiece that was written when he was a teenager? Based on Goethe's poem.
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Erlking
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what was the focal point and unifying element in Wagnerian music drama?
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orchestra
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who created the symphonic poem?
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Franz Liszt
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19th century masters of the short piano piece
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Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms
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fourth movement in romantic symphony is in _______ form and may close on a note of triumph or pathos.
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sonata allegro
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what is a one-movement orchestral programmatic form with contrasting sections to develop poetic idea, suggest a scene, or create a mood?
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symphonic poem
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What type of song is Erlking?
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through-composed
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what were the principle themes of Wagner's operas called? these recur throughout a work, undergoing variation and development as do the themes and motives of a symphony.
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leitmotifs
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known for his more than 500 concertos
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vivaldi
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what do they call Frederic Francois Chopin?
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Poet of the Piano
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who was known as the first great exponent of musical Romanticism in France?
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Hector Berlioz
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What operas were included in Wagner's ring cycle?
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Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterddmmerung
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Who was the creator of modern orchestra - daring originality & use of a larger ensemble?
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Hector Berlioz
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What are Schumann's bes known song cycles?
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A Poet's Love on poems of Heine and A Woman's Love and Life on poems of Chamisso
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What is an example of program symphony?
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symphonie fantastique
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In Brahm's early manhood, the death of whom and whom led him to write the German Requiem?
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his mother and Robert Schumann
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Who was the first Russian whose music appealed to western tastes?
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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What was Brahms? his aim was to show that new and important things could still be said in the tradition of Classical masters
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traditionalist
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where the same melody is repeated in every stanza
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strophic form
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who was the first Bohemian composer to achieve international prominence?
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Bedrich Smetana
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this proceeds from the beginning to end, without repetitions of whole sections
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through composed
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What work made Brahms more famous than any of his other works?
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German Requiem
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Who was the cosmopolitan who came under the spell of italian opera, french ballet, German symphony, and song? He also had a great affinity for ballet
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Tchaikovsky
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who was universally regarded as one of the most distinguished musicians of the 19th century?
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Clara Schumann
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What three ballets of Tchaikovsky were not immediately popular with the dancers, who complained that the rhythms were too complicated to be danced to?
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Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker
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what was Clara Schumann admired as, even though the world she lived in was not prepared to acknowledge that a woman could be an outstanding composer?
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a leading pianist
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where the same melody may be repeated for two or three stanzas, with new material introduced when the poem requires it, generally at the climax
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modified strophic form
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Which opera, made from 6 symphonic poems, was Smetana's best known work?
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"My Country"
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What of Clara Schumann can be best classified as a virtuosic showpiece for solo piano?
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Scherzo Op. 10
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What was the fanciful ballet about a child's Christmas gift and dreams of exotic people and places?
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The Nutcracker
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a german-texted solo vocal song with piano accompaniment
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The Lied
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a group of Lieder that are unified by a narrative thread or a descriptive theme
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a song cycle
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what represented the peak of Felix Mendelssohn's achievements?
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the oratorio Elijah
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