Characteristics of Romantic Music
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Romantic music puts unprecedented emphasis on self-expression and ______ of style.
Individuality
When did the composer's role in society changed radically during Beethoven's lifetime?
1770-1827
What is an Art Song?
A composition for solo voice and piano.
1797-1828
True or false. Was Clara a leading concert pianists in the 19th century?
True
What did romantic composers dealt with from the middle ages and from Shakespeare's plays?
Expressive Aims and subjects
What image of Beethoven inspired romantic musicians?
"Free artist"
Song composers would ____ a poem, translating its mood, atmospohere, _____ into music.
interpret, imagery
True or false. He was the earlies master if the romantic art song
True
After her husband's death, wheat did she become?
A teacher, and edited his collected work.
Define Nationalism and Exoticism.
Nationalism: Was expressed when romantic composers deliberately created music with a specific national identity, using the folksongs, dances, legends, and history of their homelands.
Exoticism: Some composers wrote melodies in an Asian Style or used rhythms and instruments associated with distant lands.
Why sometimes the romantic composer was "free artist" rather than a choice?
Because of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars 1789-1814
What is the mood often set by when its a brief introduction by an piano section?
postlude
At age eleven what dis he become?
A choirboy in the court chapel and won a scholarship to the imperial seminary.
What does Clara consider herself as?
a. rap artist
b. performing artist
c. gospel artist
d. singer artist
B
Define Program Music.
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
What century was the public captivated by virtuosity?
The 19th century
Strophic form makes.......
a song easy to remember and is used in almost all folksongs.
unlike Beethoven, Schubert did not mingle with the ____?
aristocracy
Who was clara's husband?
a. Johannes Brahms
b. Friedrich Wieck
c. Robert Schumann
d. Franz Schubert
C
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Romantic composers reveled in____ sensuous sound, using____ to obtain a variety of moods and atmospheres.
rich, tone color
What class did the romantic composers came from?
Social class was their main audience
Romantic art songs are sometimes grouped in a set or?
song cycle
At what age did he give up teaching school to devote himeslef entirely to music?
21
What was the piano trio Clara wrote?
Trio for violin
cello
piano in G minor