The Romantic Period and Style
Romanticism was a cultural and musical movement that stressed what 3 concepts?
Emotion, imagination, and individualism.
The form of an art song that has new music for each stanza.
Through-composed
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
Music that does not have a story or image purpose. It is "music for music's sake". This is the term referring to all music that isn't program music.
Absolute music
This group of Russian composers established the musical identity of Russia in the 1860's.
The Russian Five or the Mighty Handful
This Italian Opera composer is known as the most popular opera composer of all time. His music was part of the Identity of Italy and he composed: Riggoletto.
Giuseppi Verdi
Musical style that deliberately creates music with a specific national identify using folk songs, dances, legends, and histories of their homeland.
Nationalism
A group of art songs intended to be performed together.
Song Cycle
Born 1810 is Warsaw, Poland, this shy composer of romantic piano music was known as the poet of the piano and notably gained his fame while performing rarely in public.
Frederic Chopin
This composer is still the most famous Russian composer, though he is not a member of the Mighty Five. His life was full of struggle and depression and he inaugurated Carnegie Hall. His ballet: "The Nutcracker" is still widely performed today.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
This Italian composer succeeded Verdi as the most important Italian Opera composer. His most famous work is La Boheme.
Giacomo Puccini
Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene is known as __________ music.
Program or Programmatic
Born 1797 in Vienna, this composer is the most famous composer of Art Songs. He composed over 600 Art Songs, symphonies, string quartets, chamber musics, operatic compositions, and masses.
Franz Schubert
A large-scale composition in several movements that is programmatic.
Program Symphony
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
Born in 1839, this composer created very few works and he suffered from psychological issues. His composition Pictures at an exhibition is among the most famous Program Symphonies and he was a member of the Mighty Handful.
Modest Mussorgsky
This German Opera composer had the most powerful impact on the the Romantic Period. Though he was terrible with money, his productions were eventually funded by a Bavarian King.
Richard Wagner
Musical style that attempts to "borrow" from another culture's musical trends.
Exoticism
Composition for Solo voice and piano where the piano serves an interpretive function to the poem/story that is being sung.
Art Song
Born 1811, in Hungary, this handsome, long-haired, magnetic man could perform superhuman feats on the piano. He is known for composing innovative and nearly unplayable piano music in the Romantic Period.
Franz Liszt
This Czech composer of Bohemian Folk music visited Spillville, Iowa and was a supporter of America establishing its own folk music.
Antonin Dvorak
This set of Operas, based on Nordic Mythology, took Richard Wagner 25 years to compose and are around 15 hours long. Their premiere was the single most important musical moment in the 1800s.
The Ring of Nibelung or the Ring Cycle
What are the 8 characteristics of Romantic Music?
1) Individuality of Style
2) Expressive Aims and Subjects
3) Nationalism and Exoticism
4) Program Music
5) Expressive Tone Color
6) Colorful Harmonies - unexpected shifts in key and sound to enhance the expression
7) Expanded Ranges of Dynamic - no more rules!
8) Massive forms - no more self contained pieces, Symphonies are now massive pieces of music that are interconnected.
The form of an Art Song that has the same music for each Stanza of the poem.
Strophic Form
A one movement composition, typically in Sonata Form, that is modeled after the Opera Overture but has not theatrical elements.
Concert Overture
This composer lived 1804-1857 and composed the Life for the Tsar (1836) which earned him the title of "the Father of Russian Music".
Mikhail Glinka
A recurring theme in a piece of music that is representative of a person, place, or thing and transforms to fit the character of the music.
Leitmotif