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Music Test 6
6th Music Test
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/21/2009

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Dates of the Romantic Period
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1820-1910
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Characteristics that Romantic movement stressed:
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Tone color(timbre); colorful harmony; expanded range of dynamics, pitch and tempo; form was miniature and monumental
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Ravel
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Impressionistic composer
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Rachmaninoff
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Post-Romantic Composer
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Important Romantic composers
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Beethoven, Shubert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky
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Important Romantic piano composers
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Liszt (imitated Paganini), Beethoven, Chopin (first of virtuoso)
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Which composer is not a Romantic period composer? Schubert, Ives, Liszt, Tchaikovsky
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Ives
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What does rubato mean?
Definition
Slowing or speeding up the tempo. "Stretching" the tempo.
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Who invented the piano and when?
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Bartolomeo Cristofori circa 1700.
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What was the most important keyboard instrument before piano?
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harpsichord
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What are the differences between the harpsichord and piano?
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Piano strikes strings, harpsichord plucks strings.; Tone; number of keys; color of keys
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How did Classical musicians differ from Romantic musicians in how they made a living?
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Classical - worked for aristocracy
Romantic - employed themselves
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Which individual lived as a "free agent" and spanned the change from Classical to Romantic?
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Beethoven
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What 3 kinds of music did Romantic composers write for middle class?
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Virtuoso; amateur; orchestral transcriptions
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Name two Romantic period performers and their instruments.
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Paganini - violin
Liszt - piano
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Genres of piano compositions:
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sonata; nocturne; ballad; etudes; preludes; waltzs; mazurkas; polonaises;
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3 parts of sonata-allegro form?
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exposition; development; recapitulation
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How many themes are included in the exposition of sonata-allegro form?
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2 themes
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What individual influenced the career choices of Chopin, Liszt and Schumann?
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Paganini
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Where was Chopin from?
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Warsaw, Poland
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Why did Chopin leave Poland?
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To tour Austria and Germany
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Why was Chopin not able to return to Poland?
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Warsaw was taken over by Russian army
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Where did Chopin live after leaving his homeland?
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Paris, France
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Where did Chopin do most of his piano performing?
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Salons
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What is a salon?
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Place where aristocrats, musicians and artists gathered for concerts. Home of rich bitch
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What is a nickname for Chopin?
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The Poet of the Piano
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Where did Liszt live during his performance career?
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Paris, France
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Where did Schumann live?
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small German town
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Where was the artistic center of Europe during the early Romantic period?
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Paris, France
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Ballades
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long piece supposed to remind listener of Middle Ages ballad
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Etude
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designed to stress particular technical problem
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prelude
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short piano work
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nocturne
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a "night" piece
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waltz
Definition
a "stylized" dance
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mazurka
Definition
Polish dance; 3x time
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polonaise
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proud and stately Polish dance
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What 2 changes did Liszt make in the way piano virtuosos were performed?
Definition
Turned piano sideways; memorized his music
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3 periods of Liszt's life and how they influenced him.
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Early life - diabolical; imitating Paganini

Middle Life - married and composed a lot

Later life - became religious
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Important facts about Robert and Clara Schumann:
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He crippled his 4th finger in left hand; when married wrote 140 art songs; attempted suicide; when he died she performed his music
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Difference between Miniature and Monumental compositions?
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Miniature: Small works for intimate surroundings

Monumental: large works for large places
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Differences between Baroque, Classical and Romantic concertos:
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3 movements never changed; as time progressed soloist became more important; Baroque used "ritornello" form which means exposition was repeated. Classical did not repeat but added another exposition. Romantic dropped double exposition so soloist could come in sooner.
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Character piece:
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A short keyboard work expressing a mood or idea
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cadenza:
Definition
Technical display by soloist
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concerto
Definition
means "to consort together" and "to compete"; contradictory meanings
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