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38 Cards in this Set
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composer of Trio for Piano Violin, and Cello in D Minor, Op. 11.
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Hensel
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performeer of Trio for Piano Violin, and Cello in D Minor, Op. 11.
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Macalester Trio
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genre of Trio for Piano Violin, and Cello in D Minor, Op. 11.
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chamber music
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composer of Prelude, Op. 28, No. 6 in B Minor
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Chopin
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performer of Prelude, Op. 28, No. 6 in B Minor
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Murray Perahia [piano]
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composer of Romeo and Juliet
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Tchaikovsky
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performer of Romeo and Juliet
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New York Philharmonic
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composer of Piano Concerto No. 2
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Rachmaninoff
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performer of Piano Concerto No. 2
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London Philharmonia Orchestra
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themes of the romantic period
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unrequited love
death politics and nationalism nature/its conflict with human life |
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music most important to romantic style and why
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instrumental--it can express inner feeling without words.
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program music=?
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music to create imagery suggested by text--depicted moods, images, stories, and characters.
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rubato=?
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handling the rhythm flexibly..rushes forward/slows down...more expressive.
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melodic style=?
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more emotional/wider range/irregular/more chromatic
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chromaticism=?
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the use of all 12 notes of the chromatic scale
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tone color=?
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new intsrument combinations
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absolute music=?
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created for its own sake w/o extra-musical connotations [symphonies/concertos]
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The Lied=?
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art song in German for solo voice with piano accompaniment. [used new emotional poems from Romantic period]
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song cycle=?
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a set of song unified by poetry, key relationships. story, etc.
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the character piece=?
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a short piano piece from the romantic period that portrays some definite mood or character often hinted by an imaginative title
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CHOPIN
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polish; virtuoso pianist; died young of TB; affair with George Sand
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LISZT
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hungarian; 2 affairs with married women; unbelievable piano technique; friends with Richard Wagner
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MENDELSSOHN
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musicologist; performed St. Matthew Passion by Bach; landmark in the revial of early music
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HENSEL
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Mendelssohn's sister; accomplished pianist, musician, composer; didnt publish much during her lifetime; married a painter, William Hensel, and became a housewife.
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RACHMANINOFF
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russian pianist and conductor; legendary technique; one of the most popular concertos; virtuosity
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BRAHMS
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freelance composer and pianist; composed everything but opera
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TCHAIKOVSKY
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russian; professor of Moscow Conservatory at 25; symphonies/concertos/ballets; romeo and juliet; the nutcracker
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form of Romeo and Juliet
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sonata
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the best way to combine music with other art forms
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romantic opera
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bel canto=?
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beautiful singing
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the center of musical life
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opera in Italy: Milan's La Scala
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the greatest of all Italian opera composers and the dominant figure in opera houses all over europe in 19th c.
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Verdi
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WAGNER
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philosopher; writer; musician; composer; revolutionary; largely self-taught as a child; chorus master at Stadttheater
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Wagner's first opera
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Die Hochzeit
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"here comes the bride" from?
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the "bridal chorus" of Lohengrin
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leitmotiv=?
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a recurring musical motive associated with a character, mood, place, etc. [example=Darth Vader theme] --used by Wagner.
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wrote a 15 hour libretto
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Wagner
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symphonie fantastique was by? and is?
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hector berlioz--a symphony in 5 movements/follows a loose story
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