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MA - Unit 4
MA Notes/Vocab - Unit 4
| Romantic Period Dates | 1820-1900 |
| Individuality of Style | Composers were trying to create a unique style/sound for their music |
| Aim of the Romantics | To express emotion & to elicit an emotional response from the listener |
| Nationalism | When a composer writes music for/about his own country |
| Exoticism | When a composer writes music about another country than their own |
| Program Music | Instrumental music, not vocal, that tells a story. |
| Absolute Music | Instrumental music that is good for its own value & tells no story/expresses anything. The opposite of program music. |
| Expressive Tone Color | Using different kinds of tone colors (instruments) to create secondary, third, etc. colors. |
| Chromatic Harmony | Means colorful harmony that uses all 12 pitches in the octave. |
| Chroma Meaning | Latin for color |
| Miniature Forms | Art songs that are short 1-3 minutes |
| Monumental Forms | Symphonies or operas that last well over an hour, sometimes 3-5 hours. |
| Thematic Transformation | A melody that’s developed to transform a theme to write program music |
| Program Symphony | A story in 4-5 different movements |
| Concert Overture | A short piece of music (under 10 minutes) written to open a concert |
| Tone Poems | Program music in one movement |
| Incidental Music | Background music/music accompanying a narrative |
| Beethoven | Wrote piano pieces for women he was interested in. Continued to write music after he became deaf. Used motives a lot. Played for Mozart. |
| Heiligenstadt Testament | Famous letter written by Beethoven to his brothers confessing that he was deaf. |
| Motive | Short musical fragment (3-5 notes) |
| Franz Shubert | A composer who wrote great classical music and piano pieces and idolized Beethoven. Wrote art songs too. Wrote/published over 600 songs. |
| Art Song | Short composition for solo voice and piano |
| Strophic Form | [A][A][A’]. Poetry in stanzas that are the same/repeated. |
| Through Composed Song | A free verse poem. Original music all the way through |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Very famous German poet who wrote “Der Erlkonig” |
| Characters of the Elfking | Father, son, piano, elfking, & narrator |
| Robert Schumann | One of the great composers and pianists of the 19th century. He created a magazine and became a music critic. Helped many young composers elevate their careers. Died young in an asylum. |
| Johannes Brahms | Resurrected the old classical forms and wrote absolute music. Known for loving form. |
| Clara Schumann | One of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the 19th century and was playing all around Europe at age 9. |
| Giacomo Puccini | Italian opera composer who wrote about realistic situations. Liked to reinforce the melody with strings. |
| Verismo | Realism in a story |
| 19th Century American Music | It is eclectic, meaning it includes many different cultures. |
| Psalm Singing | Singing sacred songs from the Bible |
| The Bay Psalm | First book published in America. 150 psalms |
| William Billings | Wrote the New England Psalm Singer |
| Stephen Foster | First professional American songwriter known for writing popular songs |
| Spirituals | Songs that are spiritual |
| Theodore Thomas | Introduced Americans to classical music. Formed an orchestra and traveled. Formed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| Maude Powell | America’s first virtuoso violinist |
| Ragtime | Means rhythm that is ragged. |
| Syncopation | Emphasizing the off-beats (formerly called ragtime) |
| Scott Joplin | Founder of ragtime music |
| John Philip Sousa | Known as America's march king, wrote march songs, and was a US marine |
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