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time periods of romantic

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1820-1900

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Mendelssohn's Concerto for Violin in E Minor opens with

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soloist who presents the main theme

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The high point of Mendelssohn's career was the triumphant premiere of his oratorio ____ in England

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Elijah

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Mendelssohn was a

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talented painter, fine writer, brilliant conversationalist in four languages

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The three movements of Mendelssohn's concerto for violin

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are played without pause

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the distinguished jewish philosopher moses mendelssohn was felix's

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grandfather

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The second movement of the concerto for violin is in what form

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ABA'

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In the first movement of the concerto for violin, the cadenza

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appears at the end of the development section as a transition to the recapitulation

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Hebrides overture

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portrays the sea

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mendelssohn is known is the man who rekindled an interest in the music of

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J. Sebastian Bach

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Beethoven "expression of feeling rather than painting" was his

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Symphony No.6

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Program music found its most varied expression in the coloristic resources of the

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romantic period

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Pastoral Symphony contains realistic imitations of

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bird calls

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Today's movie score may be regarded as examples of

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incidental music

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nonprogram music is also known as _____ music

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absolute

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Identify- The Sorcerer's apprentice The moldau Till Eulenspiegel

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symphonic poem

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Identify A midsummer night's dream

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incidental music

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Identify Symphonic fantastique

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program symphony

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Identify romeo and juliet overture 1812 hebrides overture

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concert overture

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Identify Symphony No.40 in G minor concerto for violin

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absolute music

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Berlioz turned to

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musical journalism

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Parisians were startled by Berlioz's fantastic symphony because of its

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sensationally autobiographical program, amazingly novel orchestration, vivid description of the weird and diabolical

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the paris conservatory awarded berlioz

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the prix de rome

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The liturgical melody quoted in the last movement of the fantastic symphony is the

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dies irae

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Berlioz enjoyed a great career as a

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conductor

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Berlioz's Fantastic symphony is unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the

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idee fixe

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Berlioz made ___ a basic part of his musical language

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tone color

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the fourth movement of the fantastic symphony depicts a

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march to the scaffold

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what was NOT composed by berlioz? romeo and juliet the damnation of Faust the sorcerer's apprentice requiem

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the sorcerer's apprentice

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the second movement of the fantastic symphony is a

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waltz

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the folk music of russia sounds different from that of western europe because it is often based on

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ancient church modes

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boris godunov was

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tsar of russia from 1598 to 1605

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libretti that fanned the public's hatred for its austrian overlords were deliberately chosen by the composer

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giuseppe verdi

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"father of russian music" is

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mikhail glinka

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mussorgsky's boris godunov is usually performed today in the revision by

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nikolai rimsky- korsakov

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Nadezhda von meck was

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wealthy benefactress who provided tchaikovsky with an annunity

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tchaikovsky was a conductor at

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Carnegie hall in ny

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what was not composed by tchaivosky

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russian easter overture

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tchaikovsky sixth symphony

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ends with a slow despairing finale

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Smetana grew up when Bohemia was under ____ domination

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austrian

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Smetana most popular opera is

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The bartered bride

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The Bohemia's main river name and the musical composition by Smetana is _____.

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The Moldau

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The Moldau river symbolized by _____ that recurs several times. The peasant wedding is suggested by _____

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expansive folk like theme rustic polka

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as a result, the official language of the schools in Prague was ___

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german

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Smetana is regarded today as the ____ of czech national music

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founder

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Dvorak music was first promoted by

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johannes brahm

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dvorak quoted actual folk tunes

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rarely

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the second movement of new world symphony, the nostalgic quality of the melody of the famous largo movement is heightened by the timbre of the

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english horn

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dvorak went to ____ , where he spent almost three year as director of the national conservatory of music

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new york

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dvorak found a secure basis for a new national musical school in the

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african american spirituals

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the popular character of the dvorak new world symphony can be traced to the composer's use of ____ often found in folk music

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syncopations, pentatonic scales, model scales

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Brahm's works though very personal in style are rooted in the music of

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haydn, mozart, beethoven

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brahms musical trademarks included

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the use of two notes against three

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the original source for the theme of the brahm's fourth symphony was a

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cantata by J.S. bach

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music critics of the day pitted brahms's fondness for traditional forms against

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wagner's innovative music drama

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in comparsion to come earlier composers, brahms musical output may be considered

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was extremely critical of his own work, and endlessly revised his compositions

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critics were often scandalized by the subject matter of verdi's opera because they

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seemed to condone rape, suicide, and free love

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which of the following operas is NOT by verdi la traviata cavalleria rusticana Il trovatore otello

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cavalleria rusticana

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verdis gret comic masterpiece, written when he was seventy-nine is

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falstaff

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la scala, italy's most important opera house is located in

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milan

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rigoletto the title charcter in giuseppe verdi opera is

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hunchback, father of gilda, a court jecter to the duke of mantua

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verdi first great success an opera with strong political overtones was

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nabucco

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verdi mainly composed his operas

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to entertain a mass public

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the librettist of giuseppe verdi opera otello and falstaff was

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arrigo boito

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soul of a verdi opera is

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expressive vocal melody

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verdi's later operas differ from his earlier ones in that they have

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greater musical continuity, more imaginative orchestratons, less difference between aria and recitative

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the composer who had an overwhemling ingluence on the young wagner was

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beethoven

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wagner envisioned the music drama as a gesamtkunstwerk or universal art work in which

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there is an cntinuous musical flow, all the arts, the vocal lines is inspried by rythms and pitch flucuations in german

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wagner last opera was

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parisfal

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the librettos to the ring of the nibelung were written by

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wagner himself

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a short musical idea associated with a person obect or thought used by wagner in his operas is called

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lietmotif

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valhalla in wagner ring circle is

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the castle of the gods

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wagner had an opera house built to his own specifications in

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bayreuth

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wagners first successful opera was

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rienzi

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at the end of the first act of the opera die walkure

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all of the above

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mahler began his professional musical life as a

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conductor of musical comedies

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which of the following statements is not true

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having spent the major portion of his life conducting opera, it is not suprising that his output is mainly in that genre

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which is the following works NOT composed by mahler Das lied von der erde die winterreise eight symphony songs of a wayfarer

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die winterreise

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mahler's experiences in NY were not happy becayse

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unable to get along with socialites who supported the new york, aroused the dislike of many of his players, and his own works were recived coolly

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robert schumann works are

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intensely autobiographical, linked with descriptive stuff, and lyrical in nature

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robert schumann carnaval is a

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cycle of piano pieces

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during the first ten years of his creative life, schumann published only

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piano pieces

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clara wieck was

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a pianist, schumann wife, and daughter of schumann piano teacher

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as a writer and a critic schumann

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new journal of music, combat commercial trash,appreciative reviews

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clara schumann was

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composer,concert pianist, mother of a large family

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romanze in the 19th century was often used for a

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short, lyrical piece for piano or solo instrument with piano accompaniment

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clara schumann frequently performed the works of her husband and her close friend

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brahms

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clara schumann

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stopped composing at 36 when robert died

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clara wrote

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songs, piano pieces, piano concerto, and a trio for piano, violin and cello

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in the 1830s paris was

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center of romanticism,artistic capital of europe, home of victor hugo

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chopin was

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shy and reversed

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chopin's output is

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relatively small

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chopin revolutionary etude deveops the piansts left hand because

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the left hand must play rapid passages

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a study piece designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties

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etude

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slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with night time

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nocturne

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dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for polish nobility

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polonaise

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chopin express love of poland thru

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polonaise and mazurkas

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among lizst favorite inspiration were literary works of

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goethe

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lizst typified the romantic movement because he

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charismatic personality, innovative, stupendous

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hungarian instrument in which strings are struck by hammers held in the hand

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cimbalom

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lizst piano works are characteized by

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apreggios, rapid octaves, unprecedented range of dynamic

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lizst unified contrasting moods by a process known as

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thematic transformation

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lizst lived in

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paris

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lizst was influeneced by

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paganini

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one movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea

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symphonic poem

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lizst established himself in __ as a conductor

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weimar

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Lizst toured europe as a virtuoso

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pianist

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