Vocabulary
Music that is inspired by the night.
What is a Nocturne?
This person transitioned the Classical Era into the Romantic Era. He lost his hearing at an early age, but continued to write music despite not being able to hear very well.
Who Ludwig Van Beethoven?
This theme deals with all things present in the physical world.
What is The Natural World?
This is the name given to the music of Mexico. It is also the name of the group.
What is a Mariachi?
Music during the romantic period will always have a deeper meaning or connection with stories, painting, scenery, emotions, etc.
What is the Big Idea?
The volume of music.
What is a dynamic?
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" is said to be about this person.
Who is Napoleon Bonnaparte
This theme deals with monsters, myths, and legends.
What is the Supernatural World?
The name of Mariachi was believed to come from these group of people that colonized Mexico.
Who are the French?
This form of art is used to inspire the music of "The Trout" and "Danse Macabre".
What is poetry?
A long, large-scale musical piece written for a full orchestra, usually split into three or four separate sections called movements.
What is a Symphony?
Where is Bonn, Germany?
This theme deals with everything outside of Western Europe?
What is the Strange and Exotic?
What is the violin, trumpet, guitar, guitarron, vihuela, harp, flute, and accordion?
Modest Mussorgsky wrote the multi-movement piece based on his friends paintings.
Who is Viktor Hartmann?
A short musical idea that has some special importance or is characteristic of the composition.
What is a motif?
Beethoven added this last and final instrument group into the orchestra. It was not considered normal during his time.
What is a choir?
This theme deals with anything dealing with the past, usually the medieval time or later.
What is the Noble Past?
The origins of Mariachi is believed to come from this Western region of Mexico.
Where is Jalisco?
Camille Saint-Saens wrote this 14 movment piece about animals.
What is the Carnival of Animals?
Music that is trying to evoke something non-musical in the world. Usually a feeling, story, or painting.
This movement of science and technology that forced Romanticists to begin writing music about nature.
What is The Age of Enlightenment and Industrialization?
This theme usually deals with saviors and grand, awe-inspiring, objects.
What is Heroes and Sublime?
This conflict is Mexico forced the music to move from haciendas to the big cities.
What is The Mexican Civil War?
The idea that all forms of art should be combined is created by Richard Wagner.
What is Gesamtkunstwerk (Total work of art)?