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Composers and their Works
Styles and Movements
Background Information
Genres and Types of Music
Bonus Questions
100
This piece by Schubert is about a man and his son riding through a spooky forest.
What is "The Erlking?"
100
This style often exhibits long, beautiful phrases that are sung.
What is "bel canto?"
100
These are the dates of the Romantic Era.
What is 1815-1900?
100
This type of music features a solo singer and is often accompanied by a piano.
What is a song?
100
These were manufactured differently in the Romantic Era and became more accessible.
What are pianos?
200
This piece by Mendelssohn has three main themes that are based on a Shakespeare play.
What is "Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream?"
200
This movement refers to the expression of intense emotion.
What is "storm and stress?"
200
This group of people became more involved in music than they had ever been allowed to before.
What are women?
200
This music does not require any sort of program or outside explanation.
What is absolute music?
200
This is the name of the piece by Schubert about a woman who is in love and reminisces about being near him.
What is "Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel?"
300
This was an opera that demonstrated the "bel canto" style.
What is "La traviata?"
300
This was developed by Wagner to define the German opera style.
What is a "complete artwork?"
300
These were the two instruments that were most popular during the Romantic Era.
What are voice and piano?
300
This type of music supports a non-musical story.
What is program music?
300
This was not a Romantic composer, but he was our example of absolute music.
Who is Mozart?
400
This man composed an opera about two people who drink a potion and fall in love.
Who is Wagner?
400
Dynamics were often overpowering for this type of Romantic opera.
What is German opera?
400
This group was rising in power and had an increased participation in music during the Romantic Era.
What is the middle class?
400
This genre provides an overview of what is to follow.
What is an overture?
400
Mendelssohn is able to characterize his Donkey theme in his "Overture" by doing this.
What is a change in register (high to low)?
500
This composer used images of nature in many of his songs.
Who is Schubert?
500
This type of music can be described as the "can bellow" style.
What is German Romantic opera?
500
These were the three main focuses of Romantic works.
What are nature, the supernatural and emotion/feeling?
500
This type of work is characterized by continuous music.
What is an opera?
500
This is another word for a musical theme.
What is a leitmotif?