Artistic movement inspired by an artist love for their homeland
What is nationalism?
100
A composition for solo voice and piano that sets poetry to music
What is art song?
100
His dream of becoming a piano virtuoso came to an end due to problems with tendonitis
Who is Robert Schumann?
100
He favored performing in small venues over large concert halls.
Who is Fredric Chopin?
100
He pioneered the concept of an idee fixe or fixed idea which is a melodic theme that can be transformed in character as it evolves through the course of a work
Who is Hector Berlioz?
200
When music uses elements (rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic) from distant cultures
What is exoticism?
200
A symphony that is has an underlying story
What is program symphony?
200
He was known for given evening concerts for his friends and family to get feedback on his new compositions. He called these performances
What is Schubertiads?
200
His music was considered by some to be controversial and at times vulgar and too dissonant for 19th century ears
Who is Franz Liszt?
200
The 3 movements of his concerto for violin are connected with bridge material similar to the bridge used by Beethoven in between the 3rd and 4th movement of his Fifth Symphony.
Who is Mendelssohn?
300
Victorian artists and composers were preoccupied with dark topics such as death and the realm of the
What is supernatural?
300
Music that was intended to be performed before or during a play or ballet
What is incidental music?
300
Chilling lieder about a young boy who rides through the woods on horse back with him father who is pursued by a creature that wants the boy's soul
What is the Schubert's Erlking?
300
He composed exclusively for the piano earning him the nickname "le poète du piano"
Who is Chopin?
300
avant-garde (radical/experimental) composition in which the main character, an opium stricken artist, is executed on a guillotine scaffold for murdering the women with whom he is infatuated
What is the Symphonie Fantasique?
400
New harmonies constructed of the intervals of a 4th and 5th
What is quartal/quintal?
400
Song form in which new music is set for each stanza of the poem
What is through composed?
400
He founded the music publication called the New Journal of Music in which he reviewed his colleagues works under guise the pseudonyms Eusebius and Florestan
Who is Robert Schumann?
400
Was president of the New Academy of Music in the last 17 years of his life
Who is Franz Liszt?
400
He composed incidental music to to accompany Shakespeare's "Midsummers Night Dream"
Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
500
The idea that music should be a vehicle for an artist to express themselves and their unique style
What is individualism?
500
A reduction of a full scale symphony or opera for solo piano
What is a transcription?
500
One of the leading piano virtuosos of the 19th century who often downplayed their accomplishments as a composer
Who is Clara Wieck Schumann?
500
His Etude in c minor, Op. 10, No. 12 nicknamed the "Revolutionary" was inspired by the composer distaste for the war going on in his native Poland
Who is Chopin?
500
Wrote a treatise on modern instrumentation and orchestration