Romantic Composers
Vocabulary
Romantic Period
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Twentieth-Century Composers
Vocabulary
Twentieth-Century
100
This composer is known for writing the opera "Carmen".
Who is Bizet?
100
Style of art and music lasting from about 1820 to 1900.
What is romanticism?
100
Freedom of __________ was a main element of Romanticism.
What is expression?
100
This composer is known for writing pieces called "Rite of Spring and "Firebird Suite".
Who is Stravinsky?
100
The type of jazz that originated from funeral marches.
What is Dixieland?
200
This composer came from a musically talented family.
Who is Mendelssohn?
200
Music written for a solo voice and instrumental accompaniment.
What is art song?
200
This composer won the Prix de Rome in 1857.
Who is Bizet?
200
This composer was heavily influenced by African drumming.
Who is Reich?
200
The use of small repetitive rhythmic, melodic and harmonic ideas.
What is minimalism?
300
This composer is known for writing "The Flying Dutchman".
Who is Wagner?
300
Music that is performed during a play to accompany the action onstage.
What is incidental music?
300
The group that supports the pulse and harmonic background for the other instruments.
What is rhythm section?
300
This composer is mostly known for writing film music.
Who is Glass?
300
When music starts in unison, begins to separate, then comes back together in the end.
What is phasing?
400
This composer is famous for writing art songs.
Who is Mendelssohn?
400
A form in which the music is repeated with each new verse or stanza of text.
What is strophic form?
400
These composers are still alive and writing music.
Who are Reich and Glass?
400
This composer invented "minimalist" music.
Who is Reich?
400
The complete abandonment of tonal structure.
What is atonality?
500
This composer wrote their first opera at the age of 21.
Who is Wagner?
500
A type of music that attempts to relate a story, idea or scene through music.
What is programmatic?
500
During the Romantic Period, music was written for the _________ __________.
What is middle class?
500
This composer caused a riot after performing a piece in public for the first time.
Who is Stravinsky?
500
The sounding of a combination of pitches that creates harmonic tension and sounds incomplete.
What is dissonance?
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