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Classical and Renaissance Period
Flashcards for Enjoyment of Music Exam 2
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03/25/2015

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Robato
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When a performer temporarily moderates tempo
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Orchestra size during Romantic Era
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Close to 100 people
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Art song
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Accompaniment song with high artistic aspirations
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Schubert
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Composer with greates sucess in writing leidr
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Leidr
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German Song
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Through-composed
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When a song features ever-changing melodic and harmonic material
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Example of a program symphony
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Symphony Fantastique
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English Horn
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Low-sounding oboe
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Dies Irae
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BUrial hymn in the medieval church
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Voltaire and Rousseau
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Important philosopher of the Enlightenment
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Sonata Allegro
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Form that came into being during Classical Era
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True or False: The minuet is not a genre but a musical form
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False - The minuet is a genre of musical dance
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Sonata Allegra form is...
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All of the above
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Mozart's variations of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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A French Folk song
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First composer to include Theme and Variations form as a movement in a symphony
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Haydn
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Köchel catalogue numbers represent
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Mozart's compositions
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Who produced 104 symphonies?
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Haydn
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String quartet
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Genre meant for small audience or performers
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Piano
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Instrument of Sonata
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True or False - Beethoven's symphonies, movements, etc are played most in popular culture
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True
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Symphony #3 by Beethoven
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Dedicated to Napolean Bonaparte
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The Nutcracker
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Composition that features a celeste
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Mazurka
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Traditional Polish dance genre
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Bel Canto
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Italian term for beautiful singing
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Everyday Life
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Subject matter of Realistic Opera
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Absolute Music
Definition
Instrumental music free of text or pre-existing program
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Principal Classical Composers
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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
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Style of Classical era
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Proportion, Balance, formal correctness
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The Enlightenment
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Age of reason and deism, invention of electricity, encyclopedia Britannica, Steam Engine
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Classical Era
Definition
Comic opera or opera buffa
Advent of the piano
Age of Revolution
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Vienna
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The City of Music -Where Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, + Schubert creates The First Viennese School
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Haydn
Definition
Freelanced in Vienna
104 operas
Honorary degree from Oxford, presented to King and Queen
Received as a Celebrity
Earned in 2 years in London what wold have taken 20 at Esterhazy (where he used to be a director of music)
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Mozart card 1
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Salzburg Austria
Prodigy (playing violin, piano, organ, and composing by age 6)
First opera - Bastien and Bastinne
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Mozart card 2
Definition
Travelled to major European cities with father, exposed to French Baroque, English choral, German polyphony, and Italian vocal
Spent 1770s in Salzburg serving the Archbishop as organist, violinist, and composer
Broke free at 25 and free lanced
Studied Bach and Handel
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1785-1787
Definition
Mozart's most lucrative period with students, concerts, commissions, and Don Giovanni
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Mozart and Haydn
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Best friends who played chamber works together
Mozart dedicated quartets to Haydn
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Ternary Form
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ABA - rarely used in 4th movement of symphonies
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Classical Forms
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Ternary and Sonata-Allegro, Minuet and Trio and Serenade
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Minuet and Trio
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Genre of Dance, movement within a classical symphony or string quartet, usually the third movement.
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Serenade
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A light, multi-movement work for string alone or small orchestra, often outside
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Sonata-Allegro
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Developed during the Classical Era
Usually the first of a multi-movement work
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Sonata
Definition
A composition for solo piano or melodic instrument with piano accompaniment (3 or 4 movement piece)
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Devices of Composition
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Thematic, Developmental, Cadential
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Rondo form
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ABACABA
Must return three times with two contrasting sections
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Years of the Classical Period
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1750-1820
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Genres of Secular Art Music
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Symphony, String Quartet, Sonata, Concerto, Opera
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Symphony
Definition
preeminent genre of music - instrumental
Developed from Italian opera overture, the sinfonia
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Sinfonia
Definition
a one-movement work with three sections (fast slow fast) - Italian opera overture
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The Father of the String Quartet
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Haydn
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Symphony No. 40 - Mozart
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Descending minor second represents pain and suffering
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String Quartet No. 3 (Opus 76)
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Haydn's favorite piece, played daily
German National Anthem
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Sonata
Definition
No longer a suite of dance movements, bu tnow piano for women and amateurs
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Father of the modern Piano Concerto
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Mozart - brings it maturity
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Concertare
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To strive together, to struggle against
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Vocal music
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Catholic mass, Classical opera
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Master of Classical Opera
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Mozart
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Heroic Period (1803-1813)
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Beethoven writes 6 of 9 symphonies, adds new instruments to the symphony including trombone, contrabassoon, piccolo, and choir
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Choral Fantasia
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Love and faith alone, when united lead to the creation of great things
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Deafness
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Begins 1790s, fully gone 1814
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Beethoven's increases to the Classical forms
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Volume and Length
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Romanticism
Definition
A revolt against Classical adherence to reason rules, forms and traditions
No unity, balance of form, order, or content
Self-expression, striving to communicate with passion no matter the imbalance
Human imagination and nature drives inspiration
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Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet
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Despair, frenzy, selfishness, heavenly exultation, and lunacy
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New Genres of Romanticism
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1. Art Song 2. Symphonic Poem
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Romanticism changes to melody, phrasing, rhythm, themes, and chromatic harmony
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Melody - Broad and powerful
Phrasing - asymmetrical and longer
Rhythm - More flexible
Themes - vocal and lyrics
Chromatic Harmony - Bold Shifts
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Rubato
Definition
Stealing time here to give it back there
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Romantic Forms
Definition
Sonata-Allegro
Character Piece
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Character Piece
Definition
A 1-2 minute piece intended to capture one mood, sentiment, or emotion
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Industrial Revolution
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During Romantic Era
Creation of flutes of silver, horns with valves
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Conductors
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Change during Romantic Era and become interpretor of ensemble
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Age of Virtuoso
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Frank Liszt, Niccolo Paganini
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Art Song
Definition
SOng for solo voice and accompaniment with high artist aspirations
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Franz Schubert
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Successful with Art Song, Father taught him violin, brother taught him piano, admitted into emperors choir at age 11, Studied with Antonio in 1810
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Schubertaids
Definition
Private gatherings in which only Schubert's compositions were played
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Song Cycle
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A tightly structured group of individual songs that tell a story or treat a single theme
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Clara Josephine Wieck
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Piano virtuoso of 19th century, child prodigy, First woman to win award
Robert Schumann's wife
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Robert Schumann
Definition
Composed in streaks with piano, art songs, symphonies, chamber music, piano concerto in A minor
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Program Music
Definition
Seeks to recreate in sound the events and emotions portrayed in some extra musical source
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Genres of Program Music
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Program Symphony
Dramatic Overture
Concert Overture
Symphonic Poem / Tone Poem
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Hector Verlioz
Definition
Writer of Symphonie Fantastique (Based off a strong affection to a woman)
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Idee Fixe
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A single melody which appears in all five movements of the piece - Symphonie Fantastique
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Col Legno
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To use the wood of the bow on strings of instrument
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Made lots of money annually, travels extensively through Europe and America
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Ballet
Definition
Originally tied to opera, and used as a diversion from opera seria
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Poet of the Piano
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Chopin
(from Warsaw Conservatory)
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Frank Liszt
Definition
Inspired by Niccolo Paganini's violin
Piano player
Practiced 4-5 hours a day
Elops with Countess Marie d'Agoult
Regarded as greatest pianist of his time
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Creator of the piano recital or soliloquies
Definition
Liszt
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Etudes
Definition
Short pieces intended to improve 1 or more aspect of a performer's technique
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Golden Age of Opera
Definition
During Romantic Era
Antonio Rossini, Vincenzo, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, George Bizet, Giacomo Puccini
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Gioachino Rossini
Definition
Culminated the opera buffa of the 18th century (best known for Barber of Seville
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Giuseppe Verdi
Definition
Unparalleled in fame
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Recitative accompagnato
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A recitative composition by the entire orchestra rather than just the basso continuo - dramatized tense situations, pushed singers to the limits of their ranges
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Alexander Dumas
Definition
Who Verdi based his play off of
His father wrote the COunt of Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers
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Scena
Definition
a section of the opera that moves quickly between a slow ario, to a recitative, to a fast concluding aria.
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Cabaletta
Definition
an area that increases in tempo to the end allowing for a fast, dramatic exit
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Singspiel
Definition
Singing play, musical comedy, or light musical drama
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Richard Wagner
Definition
Produced theological writings, born in Leipzig, largely self-taught, wrote both music and librettos for his operas
Wrote Tristan and Isolde, based off Arthur Schopenhaur and funded by Friedrich Siegfried
Purpose was to show themes of power, greed, honor, bravery, and rage in 19th century Germany
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Friedrich Siegfried
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Paid off Wagner's debt and helped him build a theater
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Hans Richter
Definition
First to conduct complete Ring Cycle
(German word that ends in twerk) - total art work
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Arthur Schopenhaur
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Inspired Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
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Liebsted
Definition
(love-death) a vision of love beyond the grave
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Leitmotif
Definition
A brief distinctive unit of music designed to represent a character, object, idea or place which returns frequently
Common in pop culture
Chromatic harmony that prevents any one note from establishing the tonic
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Realistic Opera
Definition
Treats everyday life issues in realistic way
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George Bizet
Definition
Wrote the famous Carmen
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Guacomo Puccini
Definition
Wrote Verismo
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Verismo
Definition
Realistic opera in Italy
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Music and Nationalism
Definition
National Anthems, Native dances, protest songs, victory symphonies, compositions with strong nationalistic titles
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Russian Nationalistm
Definition
Mikhal Glinka - "A Life for the Czar"
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The Mighty Handful
The Russian 5
Definition
Alexander Boradin, Cesar Cui, Mily Balakirev, Nikobi Rimsky, Modest Mussorgsky
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Mussorgsky
Definition
Most Russian, rejected the influence of western music
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Late Romantic Symphony
Definition
Fast-slow-minuet/scherzo-fast
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Only one to write full orchestra in late Romantic Era
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Richard Wagner
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Johannes Brahms
Definition
Studied Bach, Haydn, Beethoven
Played in showrooms by day, Saloons by night
Awarded honorary degrees from Cambridge and Breslau
Formal education never went beyond primary school
Mostly wrote absolute music
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Camille Saint-Seans Symphony No. 3
Definition
First symphony with an organ, written by Brahms
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Ottorino Respighi
Definition
Wrote 2 Symphonic Poems
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Mahler
Definition
Brought orchestral lied to maturity
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Samuel Barber
Definition
Symphony of 1000
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Symphony No. 5
Definition
Epitomizes Beethoven's struggles and rise to victory
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