Reasons for 'Romance'
Party Like It's 1900-1999
Chopin It Up and Puttin' It in the Beethoven
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
Industrial Revolution
New instruments invented, old instruments made better, instruments built more quickly/cheaply, people had more wages from factory jobs
100
Film music
Music written for a movie to help tell its story
100
From what physical ailment did Beethoven suffer for most of his life?
Tinnitus/deafness/hearing loss
100
Program music
Music that tells a story
100
What are the dates of the Romantic Period?
1825-1900
200
Relative peace in Europe at the time
People could focus on music because they weren't fighting wars, composers didn't just come from Vienna anymore
200
Chance music
Part or all of the music is NOT up to the composer
200
For what instrument did Chopin write almost exclusively?
piano
200
Total music
Music nonstop from start to finish in an opera
200
Describe 4:33--1) What happened, 2) what was the intended result, and 3) what the point was that he was trying to prove.
1) John Cage sat at a piano and didn't play a note, 2) he wanted people to listen to all the sounds in the room, and 3) he wanted to prove that all sound is music.
300
Nationalism
Composers start coming from places they hadn't before, new styles of music become popular
300
Serialism
Music that is all about the rules instead of how it sounds
300
Name one of the famous composers with whom Beethoven studied in Vienna
Haydn, Mozart
300
Atonality
Music with no tonal center/'home note'
300
Name two instrumental developments from the Romantic Period
Valves for most brass instruments; new key systems for woodwinds; invention of baritone, tuba, and saxophone; pianos made bigger and stronger; orchestra gets way bigger; orchestras get conductors
400
Reaction against the Classical Period
People were tired of non-emotional music, so they started putting more passion in their music; people were tired of following all the Classical rules, so they just wrote what they wanted
400
Impressionism
Gives the overall feeling of a story, not the specific details
400
Which genre did Beethoven revolutionize?
symphony
400
Lieder
A genre in a which a solo voice sings with piano accompaniment
400
What is the main difference between Romantic symphonies and tone poems? (Be specific!)
Romantic symphonies have multiple movements; tone poems only have one.
500
Beethoven
first famous composer to start breaking all the rules, first famous composer to put passion into his music
500
Neo-classicism
Sounds modern but is written using Classical forms and rules
500
Name a style of music Chopin was famous for writing
preludes, nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas
500
Leitmotifs
Short musical themes that represent people, objects, or ideas
500
Name the two main languages of Romantic opera and the most famous composer for each.
Italian (Verdi) and German (Wagner)
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