Music Test 2
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| German late baroque composer who worked in both sacred and secular positions and played as an organist and violinist | show 🗑
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| True or false: Bach was deeply religious, and this permeated his work. | show 🗑
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| show | Married twice, had 20 children
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| show | St. Thomas Church. He played the organ, composed a cantata, and led the boys' church choir. He wrote a cantata each week for several years.
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| ______ wrote a prelude for every key on the chromatic scale, twice. | show 🗑
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| show | Fugue
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| show | Subject
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| show | Through imitation - each voice enters after a previous voice has finished presenting the subject.
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| Transitional section in a fugue between presentations of the subject, which offers either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject | show 🗑
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| Bach's "Little Fugue" in G minor is based on a single theme but contains a lot of variety. What are 4 ways in which he creates variety in the piece? | show 🗑
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| German late baroque composer who studied music in Germany, opera in Italy, then created his own opera company and wrote many operas in London, becoming England's most important composer | show 🗑
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| Handel did not come from a musical family. What did his father want him to become? | show 🗑
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| show | Westminister Abbey
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| show | Baroque; oratorios, operas
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| What did Handel favor as topics for his oratorios? | show 🗑
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| Handel's music has more changes in ________ than Bach's. | show 🗑
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| Give an example of how Handel's music makes extensive use of changing moods. | show 🗑
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| show | Arias
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| Large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narrative text, but without acting, scenery, or costumes; often based on biblical stories/sacred topics | show 🗑
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| show | Chorus, aria, duet, recitative, orchestral interlude; chorus
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| Handel's "Messiah" is in ___ parts. What is each part about? | show 🗑
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| show | Isaiah 40:4, describing the creation of a desert highway on which God will lead his people back to their homeland.
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| show | The Revelation of St. John
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| Give three ways Handel's treatment of text and musical ideas aids the listener in understanding the text in the "Hallelujah" chorus from "Messiah." | show 🗑
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| show | 2 1/2; 24
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| show | It premiered to wide acclaim in a theatre in Dublin, Ireland (meant as entertainment). It was poorly received in England until a performance whose proceeds benefitted an orphanage.
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| What is the overall topic of Handel's "The Messiah"? | show 🗑
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| show | Balance, structure
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| show | Preclassical - 1730-1770; high classical - 1770-1820 (what we think of for classical)
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| Who were the three main composers of the classical period? | show 🗑
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| show | Contrast of mood; flexibility of rhythm; mostly homophonic texture; tuneful, easy to sing melody; use of gradual dynamic changes; end of basso continuo
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| show | There was contrast both between and within movements of a piece.
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| What does it mean that there was flexibility of rhythm in classical style? | show 🗑
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| show | False. Texture was mostly homophonic, but there were frequent shifts.
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| Classical melodies were tuneful, easy to sing, and _______ based. | show 🗑
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| Classical music's use of gradual dynamic changes was related to the development of the…. | show 🗑
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| show | It occurred with the gradual end of the harpsichord as the piano took over.
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| show | Standardization of instrumentation (how many used); increase in size of orchestra; core of orchestra still strings; composers made use of various timbres available
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| show | True
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| show | Equal
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| In classical music, ______ moved around between instruments. | show 🗑
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| show | Breakdown of patronage system; rise of public (consumer-driven) system; prospering middle class wanted aristocratic pleasures (theatre, literature, music); middle class kids received music lessons; serious compositions became flavored by folk/pop music
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| show | Decline of aristocracy; rise of democracy
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| How did a rise of a public, consumer driven system during the classical period affect composers? | show 🗑
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| What was the effect of a prospering middle class during the classical period who wanted aristocratic pleasures like theatre, literature, and music? | show 🗑
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| show | Caused the rise of the instrument manufacture industry; composers wrote playable music that would sell
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| Another term for the light, graceful style of music popular in the classical period is... | show 🗑
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| While a late baroque movement may convey ____ emotion, a classical composition will ________ in mood. | show 🗑
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| show | Few; many
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| show | Homophonic
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| True or false: Classical melodies are easiest to remember. | show 🗑
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| Classical melodies sound balanced and symmetrical because they often are build of _____ phrases of the same length. | show 🗑
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| Classical music often uses _______ dynamic change. | show 🗑
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| show | Piano
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| In the classical period, what was the accompaniment that gradually died out? | show 🗑
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| show | Strings
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| What percussion instrument was used during the classical period? | show 🗑
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| show | First violin
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| show | Strings
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| Which family of instruments brought power to the classical orchestra? | show 🗑
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| What was the order of tempos for a classical instrumental piece in four movements? | show 🗑
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| Relative to musicians, which financial system began to break down during the classical period? | show 🗑
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| show | Music at home
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| show | Middle class
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| What kind of music began to be introduced into serious music during the classical period? | show 🗑
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| What city was the music capital of the German-speaking world during the classical period? | show 🗑
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| show | 20-45
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| Classical symphonies are multi-movement instrumental works. How many movements do they have? | show 🗑
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| show | Fast, frequently sonata form, most serious/intense movement
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| show | Slow, often in sonata or theme and variation form, counteracts first movement by being simpler and more relaxed
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| Describe the third movement of a classical symphony. | show 🗑
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| Describe the fourth movement of a classical symphony. | show 🗑
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| Melodies of classical symphonies are called ______. | show 🗑
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| True or false: Themes in one movement of a classical symphony are often found in other movements as well. | show 🗑
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| Form of a single movement, consisting of three main sections and a concluding coda | show 🗑
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| show | Exposition, development, recapitulation
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| show | Introduction
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| show | Bridge
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| show | Coda
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| Short musical ideas developed within a composition are called fragments or…. | show 🗑
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| show | Sonata form
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| What is another name for sonata form? | show 🗑
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| First section of sonata form movement, which sets up strong conflict between tonic key and new key and between first theme (or group of themes) and new theme (or group of themes) | show 🗑
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| Second section of sonata form movement, in which themes from the exposition are developed and the music moves through several different keys; themes are broken into fragments/motives | show 🗑
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| show | Recapitulation
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| In sonata form movement, a concluding section following the recapitulation and rounding off the movement by repeating themes or developing them further | show 🗑
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| show | Theme and variations
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| show | Single. A A' A'' A'''
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| show | Minuet and trio
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| Compositional form featuring a main theme (A) that returns several times in alternation with other themes, such as A B A C A and A B A C A B A. Often the form of the last movement in classical symphonies, string quartets, and sonatas. | show 🗑
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| show | Pop
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| The ______ movement of Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" is in theme and variations form. | show 🗑
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| show | An unexpected loud chord
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| show | Third
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| Describe the character of a minuet emotionally. | show 🗑
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| Because of its character, the rondo is most often the ______ movement of a classical symphony. | show 🗑
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| Orchestral composition, usually in four movements, typically lasting between 20-45 minutes, exploiting the expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the orchestra | show 🗑
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| Fragment of a theme, or short musical idea that is developed within a composition | show 🗑
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| show | Heiligenstadt testament
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| show | Deafness
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| show | Bonaparte; Napoleon; Napoleon; Eroica
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| Beethoven carried ________ everywhere, jotting down musical ideas. | show 🗑
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| Beethoven bridged the ______ and _______ eras. | show 🗑
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| In Beethoven's works, great tension and excitement are built up through __________ and ___________. | show 🗑
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| Beethoven's range of ______ and _______ were greater than any music before him. | show 🗑
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| show | Expanded
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| To unify contrasting movements, Beethoven made one movement ___________ into the next instead of…. | show 🗑
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| A __________ rhythm dominates the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. | show 🗑
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| show | Four-note motive; third, fourth
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| show | A bridge passage
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| In the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the second theme begins with _______ and then a new ________ melody. | show 🗑
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| Beethoven generates tension in the development section of the first movement of his Fifth Symphony by breaking the ________ into smaller and smaller fragments. | show 🗑
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| The recapitulation of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony brings a new expressive ________ at the end of the first theme. | show 🗑
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| In the Fifth Symphony, the coda is like a second ___________ section. | show 🗑
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| show | Ludwig van Beethoven
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| show | Classical
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| True or false: Beethoven sometimes worked for years on a single piece of music. | show 🗑
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| Beethoven added the _______ to the orchestra. | show 🗑
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| What composer sometimes used ugly, dissonant, or strange sounds in his music? | show 🗑
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| show | He expanded the development and coda sections of sonata form.
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| Like Haydn, Beethoven developed themes through... | show 🗑
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| show | 1820-1900
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| show | 1730-1820
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| Composers of the romantic period continued to use ________ of the preceding classical era. | show 🗑
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| Like some classical composers, romantic composers aimed for _________ intensity and __________ melody. | show 🗑
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| show | Individuality
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| What are the five most common subjects of romantic music? | show 🗑
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| Other important Romantic features involve the musical use of folk songs and dances. These two features, respectively, derive from the political movement called ________ and the trend called _________. | show 🗑
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| Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene | show 🗑
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| The romantic orchestra can include close to ______ musicians. | show 🗑
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| show | A cast-iron frame made the piano's tone more "singing"; its range was extended; the piano could produce more sound; damper pedal allowed a sonorous blend of tones
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| show | Chromatic harmony
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| The slight holding back or pressing forward in tempo common in romantic music | show 🗑
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| Rather than ff and pp, romantic composers could use ____ and ____. | show 🗑
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| A technique used in romantic music in which a melody returns in a later movement or section of a work with its character transformed by changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm | show 🗑
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| What does it mean that romantic music used individuality of style? | show 🗑
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| show | Nationalism
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| Music that intentionally implies a foreign culture; frequently used in operas with foreign settings | show 🗑
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| show | Reading the program or viewing the associated work for a piece
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| In what two ways did romantic composers try to create unique sounds? | show 🗑
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| show | Tone color
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| show | (Sometimes subtle) shifts in tempo
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| show | Some composers went on for hours and their works required hundreds of performers. Others' music lasted only a few minutes and was written for a single instrument.
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| show | False. Composers continued to write symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, concertos, operas, and many other traditional works.
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| show | Composers regarded themselves as "free spirits." There was also a decline in aristocratic fortune caused by the Napoleonic Wars.
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| New _____ classes emerged in the romantic period, leading to new musical ______. | show 🗑
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| In the romantic period, the public was entranced by virtuosity. What effect did this have for composers? | show 🗑
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| show | Private; piano
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| show | Romantic
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| Few romantic composers were financially successful from composition alone. What else did they do to support themselves? | show 🗑
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| show | Lied
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| Romantic form in which music is repeated for each stanza of a song | show 🗑
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| show | Through-composed form
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| The mood of an art song is often set by a brief ________, and then summed up at the end by a ________, both performed on the accompanying instrument, the _______. | show 🗑
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| ______ was the first great master of the romantic song. | show 🗑
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| show | Goethe
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| Schubert's songs number more than…. | show 🗑
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| show | Death
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| The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlking unifies the song's episodes and suggests what idea? | show 🗑
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| What is the form of The Erlking? | show 🗑
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| show | Narrator, father, song, Erlking
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| show | Subject is supernatural; uses aspects of nature (horse galloping); uses thematic transformation
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| show | Art song
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| Romantic form in which the same music is used for all verses except for one | show 🗑
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| show | Song cycle
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| show | Franz Schubert
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| In the 1830s, _____ was the center of romanticism, an artistic capital of Europe, and home of what three famous authors? | show 🗑
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| show | Shy/reserved
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| Chopin's output of music was relatively _____ in size. | show 🗑
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| Chopin's "Revolutionary" étude develops the pianist's left hand because... | show 🗑
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| show | Miniatures
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| A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties | show 🗑
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| A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with nighttime | show 🗑
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| A dance in triple meter that originated as a stately processional for the Polish nobility | show 🗑
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| show | Polonaises, mazurkas
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| Early-to-mid Romantic composer born in Poland who moved to Paris at age 21, wrote almost exclusively for piano, and composed mostly for chamber concerts as opposed to concert halls | show 🗑
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| show | Aurore Dudevant; George Sand
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| True or false: Chopin wrote a lot of program music. | show 🗑
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| show | Chopin
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| Symphony (a composition for orchestra in several movements) related to a story, idea, or scene, in which each movement usually has a descriptive title; often found in romantic music | show 🗑
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| Music intended to be performed before and during a play, setting the mood for the drama | show 🗑
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| Program music found its most varied expression in the coloristic resources of the... | show 🗑
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| show | Movie scores
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| show | Absolute
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| show | Musical journalism
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| More than any earlier composer, Berlioz made ________ a basic part of his musical language. | show 🗑
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| Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" is startling because of its _________ program, _______ orchestration, and vivid description of…. | show 🗑
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| show | Harriet Smithson
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| The fourth movement of Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" depicts... | show 🗑
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| Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" is unified by the recurrence of a theme known as the…. | show 🗑
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| In Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony," what specifically does the return of the idee fixe represent in the fifth movement? | show 🗑
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| show | Dies irae (Day of wrath)
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| The third important melody in the fifth movement of Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" is called the…. | show 🗑
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| show | The witches' dance and the Dies irae
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| show | The larghetto (intro) evokes groans and shrieks of laughter with tremolos in high muted strings and low cellos/basses. The idee fixe becomes a grotesque dance tune played by a high-pitched clarinet with many trills.
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| Some critics accused Berlioz of heresy because of his use and treatment of the Dies irae in his "Fantastic Symphony." Why did he choose to include it? | show 🗑
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| show | Franz Liszt
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| show | 20th century
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| show | Some called it "bombastic" and "vulgar," while others argued it was the ideal music.
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| show | Liszt
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| Composer who created the symphonic poem/tone poem | show 🗑
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| Central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in relationship to which all other tones in the composition are heard | show 🗑
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| show | Tonic/keynote/home key
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| show | Scale
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| show | Major scale
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| Series of seven tones within an octave, with an eight tone repeating the first tone an octave higher, composed of a specific pattern of whole and half steps; the half step between the second and third tones is characteristic | show 🗑
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| Smallest interval traditionally used in western music | show 🗑
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| show | Whole step
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| show | Modulation
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| show | Bach
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| Who is the composer of Messiah, with excerpts including "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted" and "Hallelujah"? | show 🗑
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| Who is the composer of Symphony No. 94 in G Major (the "Surprise" symphony)? | show 🗑
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| show | Mozart
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| Who is the composer of String Quartet in C Minor? | show 🗑
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| show | Beethoven
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| Who is the composer of Erlkonig? | show 🗑
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| show | Chopin
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| Who is the composer of Etude in C Minor ("Revolutionary" etude)? | show 🗑
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