| Common themes of Romanticism |
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Love-unrequited, hopeless, fatal
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Death- Mystery
Religion-Supernatural, mysticism
Politics-National ID
Nature- Relationship with humanity
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Strophic
Throughcomposed
Modified Strophic
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| Same melody repeated with each stanza, or strophe, of poem |
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durchkomponiert
no repetitions of whole sections, music follows the storyline- ballad (new music throughout)
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| Combines feature of two other forms |
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1797-1828
Der Erlkonig
(Character Piece)
solo piano
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1810-49
Polish by birth lived in France most of life
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1811-86
Virtuoso- look at me!
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an orchestral work with descriptive title or program.
Beethoven’s 6th symphony
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Berlioz’s term for recurring idea linking the movements of symphonie fantastique
(cyclic)
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The Mass for the dead
(Or something written in honor of dead)
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A rhymed sequence written by Thomas of Celano which became part of the Requiem Mass.
Often set polyphonically by composers
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| strike the strings with the bow |
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An alto or bass brass instrument.
tall narrow 12 holes and keys
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wind instrument
serpent shape
related to cornett
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| orchestral pirce occompanied by program poem or poetic piece |
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| Verdi dominated the opera scene from 1840 on. Themes of his included the unification and independence of italy. |
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avoided small musical units
obscured and used unusual cadences
started using leitmotifs
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a musical fragment related to drama that recurs.
suggests something unseen to viewers
(recollection, intuition, prediction)
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Novelistic-
tells a story
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| multi-movement work with explicit indications of emotional content |
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loved harriet smithson (shakesperian actress)
-wrote symphonie fantastique to impress her
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| cycled theme- incorporated Requiem mass from chants |
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Ma Vlast (My homeland) from Vlatava
Bohemian (Czech)
progressive
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big deal at time
Giuseppe Verdi
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Rigoletto
Il tovatore
La traviata
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Composer ideal for the nazi party
egomaniac
Der ring des Nibelungen
(4 4hr pars)
-das rheingold
-die walkure
sigfried
-die gotterdammerung
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a “complete artwork” that represents and synthesizes into one gestural verbal and musical types of expression.
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leitmotivs or, grundthemen (as Wagner called it) are all woven together
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| early 19th century to ealry 20th. Emphasis on indefinable and infinite
HARVARD DEF |
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| repetition of same music for every strophe |
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| the range of a part most often used |
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| program piano piece. evokes particular mood or scene. |
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| altering the tempo (stolen time) |
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| performer of great technical ability
liszt |
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| a festive processional, polish, moderato |
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