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Music Appreciation

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Romantic Era   show
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show -beautiful and expressive melodies (rhapsodic) -Ingenious harmonies -expanded forms  
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Beethoven   show
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show -composer: Beethoven -Minor to Major -Cyclical form - one rhythmic motive dominates the entire work  
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Symphony No.5 Mvt I: Allegro con, brio, sonata-allegro form   show
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show -double theme with variations -recurrence of cyclic rhythmic idea  
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show -recurrence of cyclic rhythmic idea -third and fourth movement linked  
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Symphony No.5 Mvt IV: Sonata-allegro form   show
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show -In German: Lied (singular), Lieder (plural) -In French: Chanson(s) -In English: Art Song  
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Stophic   show
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though-composed   show
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show strophic with "departure" (combines features of two other forms)  
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Genre-Lieder   show
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Franz Schubert   show
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Schubert's Music   show
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Erlkonig-composition   show
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Robert Schuman   show
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Schuman's Music   show
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Style traits of romantic music   show
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Sonata   show
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show -Beethoven: Op.7, No.21 -1st Mvt descending, negative -2nd Mvt ascending, positive -3rd Mvt flat -4th Mvt diminution, sounds like laughter  
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Opus   show
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show -delicate, singing melody -etheral mood/right-hand arpeggios -modified strophic form  
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arpeggios   show
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"Moonlight" Sonata Mvt 2   show
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"Moonlight" Sonata Mvt 3   show
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"Kreutzer" Sonata   show
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Rondo   show
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show -two movements: adagio sostenudo esspressivo- allegro molto piu tosto presto, and rondo  
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Tempo Rubato (robbed tempo or borrowed time)   show
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Clara Schumann   show
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Clara Schumann's Music   show
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Concerto   show
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Character Piece (book calls them short lyric piano pieces)   show
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Impromptu   show
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show a study like piece that focuses on a particular technical challenge  
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show a stately polish processional and dance in triple meter  
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show a lively polish dance resembling a polka in triple meter  
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show melody -thematic transformation -com-positional technique -"Alternation of the character of a theme by means of subtle changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythms, when it returns to a related movement of section"  
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show -from Poland -Father was French -career in Paris (because of the war in Poland) -The "poet of the piano"- because he had a gentle personality -Paramour of Geoge Sand (Aurora Dudevant)-change her name to get her pieces written -early death at age 39  
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show -Smaller forms: nocturnes, preludes, impromptus, waltzes, mazurkas, etudes -Lager: ballades, polonaises, a fantasy, sonatas,piano concertos  
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Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op.24, No.4   show
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Staccato   show
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Lagatto   show
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show instrumental music with a literary or pictorial association  
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show is opposite of program music & does not paint a picture.  
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delacroix   show
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show emotional subjectivity, nature, nationalism, fantasy  
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what is nationalism?   show
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What are examples of "fantasy' from Romanticism period?   show
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show miniature compositions and monumental compositions  
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show designed for intimate surrounding; intense mood; few resources (1 singer & 1 piano; art song/lieder/chansons; character pieces 1 pianio  
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show designed for large halls; huge #'s of performers; several hours in duration; Requiem, Berlioz  
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What are the 4 main types of program music of the Romantic Era?   show
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What is a concert overture?   show
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What is incidental music?   show
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what is program symphony music?   show
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what is symphonic poem?   show
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A Compose- Berlioz   show
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What is Prix de Rome?   show
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show Dramatic, vivid & powerful; huge forces; instrumental music: program symphonies, concert overtures; vocal music: operas, sacred worked; "the creator of the modern orchestra"- classic text on orchestration  
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show Composer: Berlioz; Genre: program symphony;5 movements; sic-let composition; Idee fixe (Harriet)desire/opium induced nightmare.  
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Movement IV (Symphonic fantastique)   show
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show plucking the notes with your finger instead of the bow; used in Movement IV (Symphonic fantastique)  
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Movement V (Symphonic fantastique)   show
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show "with the wood"; used in Movement V (Symphonic fantastique); playing with the wood of the bow  
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show Musial Nationalism  
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What are the programs based on in musical nationalism genre?   show
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What composer is associated with Musial Nationalism?   show
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What is Franz List known for?   show
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show Berlioz; arranged symphony for the piano  
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Who was the "most dazzling of the heroic virtuosos?"   show
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Why was Fran List regarded as the "most dazzling of the heroic virtuosos?"   show
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Who composed the Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 5 in E minor?   show
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Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 5 in E minor was considered a Laboratory experience, why?   show
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show Bohemia composer; revolution against Austria; Naitionalist operas e.g. The Bantered Bride  
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show Bedrich Smetana  
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Notes on composition "Vitava"   show
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What does the music in River Ultava suggest?   show
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show Two rivulets theme- The river theme; Fox Hunt (french horns); Dance @ peasant wedding; water nymphs in the moonlight; the river theme; St. John rapids; The river theme in major; the great castes & cathedrals in Prague  
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Part Song   show
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Liebeslieder Waltzer   show
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Choral Society   show
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show -from Italy -operas, church music  
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Manzoni Requiem (Verdi)   show
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show -from Bohemia / worked in Vienna -closed his career in NY City -symphonies and songs -composed "Resurrection Symphony": soloist, four-part chorus, and orchestra, climax on top of climax on top of climax  
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show romantic opera from France by Bizet  
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show -romantic opera from France by Gounod -focusing on serious, historical plots with huge choruses, crowd scenes, elaborate dance episodes, ornate costumes, and spectacular scenery  
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show romantic opera from Germany by Wagner  
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show romantic opera from Italy by Verdi  
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show romantic opera from Italy by Puccini  
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Bel canto   show
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Number Opera   show
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Barber of Seville   show
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Puccini   show
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show -composer: Puccini -verismo and exoticism -based on play and short story -disastrous premiere, then revised -Cio-Cio-San is central tragi-heroic character  
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Ballet   show
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show -Russian composer -not a Russian nationalist -disastrous marriage because of his homosexuality -never met, Nadezhada von Meck by her stipulation -died suddenly at age 53  
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Sleeping Beauty   show
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Thematic Transformation   show
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show highest manifestation of a song, exert from a larger work  
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Wagner (Vahgner)   show
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show music, poetry & prose, acting & dancing, plastic art and architecture  
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Leidmotif (definition)   show
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show -means: The Ring of Nibelungen -I: Das Rheingold -II: Die Walkure (the valkyries) -III: Siegfried (true hero) -IV: Gotterdammerung (the twilight of the God) -characters: Wotan, Loge, Brunnhilde, Siegfried  
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