Types of Music
Similar to an opera overture, but not tied to an opera?
Concert Overture
What composer used idee fix and leitmotif in operas to bind the music together?
Wagner
Performer slightly fluctuates the tempo for expression
Rubato
What is the term for a deliberate consciousness attempt to develop artworks that are characteristics of a particular country or region?
Nationalism
Music Associated with non-musical ideas...
Program Music
Who wrote Symphonie fantastique?
Hector Berlioz
True or False
The romantic era focused on emotions and feelings.
True
Long complex orchestral work in one movement that develops a poetic idea, creates a mood or suggests a scene.
Tone Poem
Music copied from one medium to another
Transcription
Composers use ______ to develop a reoccurring theme that is associated with a certain character.
leitmotiv
True or false
Romantic era songs are short and tuneful.
False
Beautiful singing, technically demanding lines melodic lines, cadenzas, and ornamentation.
Bel Canto
Music to be performed in between acts of a play
Incidental Music
What composer played the piano with exploited power and brilliance?
Liszt
True or False
Italian, German, and Russian operas were developed in the romantic period.
False; Italian and German operas were developed in the romantic period.
What is the term for an instrumental piece that develops a particular technique?
Etudes
Free short forms that were different from the strict forms of classical music
Character Pieces
What composer played the piano intimately and sensitively?
Chopin
Name two of the ten characteristics of romantic music.
The 10 characteristics of romanticism include they were fascinate by the unknown, relied on imagination and emotion, fascinated by the heroic dark ages, reveled in the unknown forces of the world, enthralled by nature, rejected rules and restraints, rejected artificialities because they thought it corrupted people, romantics were individualistic, they were isolationist, but concert halls were developed at the time, and they developed respect for the other fine arts.
Name two of the four characteristics of nationalism
4/4
The music is specific to a certain region or country, rising patriotism, the musical direction was written in the native language, and it was a time when they started to veer from German Austrian dominance.