Beethoven
Romanticism
The Later 19th Century
The 20th Century: Primitivism
The 20th Century: Second Viennese School
100
1770-1827
What are Beethoven's birth and death dates?
100
The linking together of a group of songs (Lieder).
What is a song cycle?
100
He composed "The Nutcracker."
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
100
An artistic movement of the early-twentieth century concentrating on non-urban cultures and untamed nature.
What is primitivism?
100
A movement that focused on the fascination of the unconscious and people's inner feelings, on inner states of being and expression of extreme feeling.
What is expressionism?
200
short-short-short-long
What is the four-note motive of Beethoven's fifth symphony?
200
A performing musician, usually an intrumentalist who is outstandingly gifted.
What is a virtuoso?
200
This composer's nationality is French.
Who is Camille Saint-Saens?
200
He was asked to produce some scores for the Ballet Russes when he moved to Paris.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
200
A compositional system without a key.
What is atonality?
300
The melody from the end of the Ninth Symphony, last movement, is performed around the world as an international symbol of peace and understanding.
What is Ode to Joy?
300
The apportioning of musical material among the instruments of an orchestra.
What is orchestration?
300
Romantic era composer, also known as "Paganini of the piano".
Who is Franz Liszt?
300
A famous Russian ballet troupe based in Paris, France.
What is the Ballet Russes?
300
A technique called "speech song."
What is "sprechstimme"?
400
He provided board and lodging at his palace in exchange for Beethoven's performances during evening parties.
Who is Prince Lichnowsky?
400
He composed the "Trout" Quintet.
Who is Franz Schubert?
400
"Sonata in b minor," by Franz Liszt
What is an example of a piece using thematic transformation?
400
Different meters sounding at the same time.
What are polyrhythms?
400
Arnold Schoenberg felt that atonality had no organizing principle (which bothered him) so he fixed this problem with this newly-invented system.
What is the "twelve-tone system"?
500
The period when Beethoven wrote many long, patriotic compositions; he became famous during this time.
What is the Heroic period (Beethoven's second period)?
500
Music that is intended to evoke images or convey the impression of events.
What is program music?
500
A single-movement orchestral work, always programmatic but not necessarily of literature (can be a painting or scene from nature).
What is a symphonic poem?
500
A constantly repeating rhythmic pattern.
What is ostinato?
500
An example of instructions seen as "am steg" from the third movement of "Five Movements for String Quartet, Op.5".
What is "at the bridge"?
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