Chapter 5 Music Appreciation – Flashcards
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Composer who damaged his hands
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Robert Schumann
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Johannes Brahms
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was a close friend of Clara and Robert Schumann
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Composer who wrote an opera that included a love triangle and being sealed in a tomb while still alive
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Guiseppe Verdi
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Western World's musical capital
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Paris
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Practice that evolved throughout the late Romantic Period was an attempt to add realism and somehow make operatic presentation true to life, is called
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verismo
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Composer who helped revive performance of the music of Bach?
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Felix Mendelssohn
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The piano's relentless rhythm in The Erlking unifies the episodes of the song and suggests
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a galloping horse
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The practice of composers providing written notes for their audiences to enhance understand of instrumental music is called _______.
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program music
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A Romantic period composer of German decent wrote large, lived large, and was constantly in debt.
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Richard Wagner
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Had a short life but composed over 600 songs.
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Franz Schubert
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Trepak, Russian Dance, is an example of
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nationalism
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Created in the Romantic Period
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Dracula
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Frederic Chopin was
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shy and reserved
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Romantic composer who earned his living as a touring piano performing virtuoso was
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Franz Liszt
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Romantic Period composer and performer who was considered a pop star at his prime.
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Franz Liszt
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Perhaps the most well-known and widely published composer in America during the 1800s was
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Stephen Foster
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A significant musical event in America during the Romantic period, was development and preservation of the
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spirituals
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Best known wind instrument maker of the Romantic period
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Adolph Sax
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A Romantic period art song is a musical composition for
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solo voice and piano
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Composer that was the son of a medical doctor
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Hector Berlioz
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When a composer writes new music for each stanza in a poem, the form is called
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through-composed
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Erlking's four main characters: the narrator, father, Erlking and
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child
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Form uses the same music under words that change for each verse
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Strophic
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Robert Schumann died
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in an asylum
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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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Felix Mendolsshon was a child prodigy much like
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Wolfgang Motzart
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Resulted in factories and jobs during the Romantic Period
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Industrial Revolution
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Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer
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exoticism
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Wrote a handbook on orchestration that became the guidebook for composers for almost a century.
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Hector Berlioz
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"Music that most people pay to hear."
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Popular
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Clara Wieck
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all of the above
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Nationalism in the arts
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is the tendency of composers to insert fold music, folk-lore, historical events, or descriptions of their country into their works.
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Three of the most important opera composers of the Romantic period were Richard Wagner, Giacomo Puccini and _____.
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Giuseppe Verdi
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One significant American musical events was the development and preservation of the _____.
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Negro Spiritual
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A musical device that assigns melodies to specific characters and events.
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Leit motif
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Main music center was located in
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Paris
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Which word translates as "real?"
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Verismo
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What was the first machine capable recording and playing back sound?
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Phonograph
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Mendelssohn wrote a concerto especially for a friend featuring the
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violin
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A group of art songs organized around a single topic
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song cycle
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Erlking by Franz Schubert is an example of an
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art song
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Trumpets could play melodies that were previously impossible to play because of ______
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valves
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New genre of literature came into being during the Romantic period
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horror
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Instrument that was never truly accepted as an orchestral instrument
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Saxophone
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Wrote a symphony about a person while under the influence of opium
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Hector Berlioz
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During the Romantic period, musical instruments began to be _______.
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Manufactured in factories
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Wagner used leitmotifs. They were
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signature melodies that represent characters, places, and things in the opera.
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During the Romantic period, the concept of the ____ arose.
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Starving Artist
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Most famous early pioneer in the field of psychotherapy
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Sigmund Freud
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Clara Wieck Schumann was
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a virtuoso pianist
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The number of significant composers in the Romantic period
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was much larger than in any previous period
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Dynamic indications in the Romantic period expanded to include
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pppp and ffff
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Symphony From the New World is an example of ______.
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exoticism
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New group in society was formed during the Romantic period
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Working middle class
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Another name for Spirtuals
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jubilee
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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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Frederic Chopin had a long love affair with the author _____.
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Aurore Dudevant
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The Romantic period lasted from
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1820-1900
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Two groups of people suffered during the Romantic Period
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American Indians and slaves
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The Erlking character represents ____.
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death
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As one of the first great _______, Berlioz influenced a whole generation of musicians.
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orchestral conductors
