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Style
100
The inclusion of folksongs, dances, legends, and other national material in a composition to associate it with the composer's homeland.
What is nationalism?
100
Short musical composition, purely orchestral, which opens an opera and sets the overall dramatic mood.
What is an overture?
100
This composer had over 600 art songs.
Who is Schubert?
100
He was the "poet of piano."
Who is Chopin?
100
Bizet's opera Carmen reflects this concept of Romantic music.
What is exoticism?
200
Use of melodies, rhythms, or instruments that suggest foreign lands.
What is exoticism?
200
Vocal form in which the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem.
What is strophic form?
200
Composed Erlkönig.
Who is Schubert?
200
Being from Poland, much of his music is a fine example of nationalism.
Who is Chopin?
200
Music that tells a story.
What is program music?
300
Explanatory comments specifying the story, scene, or idea associated with program music.
What is a program?
300
Vocal form in which there is new music for each stanza of a poem.
What is through-composed form?
300
The Erlking in Schubert's art song, is a Romantic personification of this.
What is death?
300
Created the symphonic poem.
Who is Liszt?
300
May include up to 100 musicians.
What is the Romantic orchestra?
400
Instrumental music having no intended association with a story, poem, idea, or scene; non-program music.
What is absolute music?
400
Form in which two or more stanzas of poetry are set to the same music while other stanzas have new music.
What is modified strophic form?
400
Schumann's wife a a virtuoso pianist.
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann?
400
Composed Romeo and Juliet and The Nutcracker.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
400
In an art song, this instrument shares an equal interpretive task with the voice.
What is the piano?
500
Scale made up of five different tones, used in folk music and music of the far east.
What is a pentatonic scale?
500
Single melody used in several movements of a long work to represent a recurring idea.
What is idée fixe?
500
His music is intensely autobiographical, usually linked with non-descriptive titles, texts or programs and is essentially lyrical in nature.
Who is Schumann?
500
Created masterpieces in concertos, dance suites and program music, but not operas.
Who is Brahms?
500
A set of art songs intended to be performed together.
What is a song cycle?
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