New Romantic
The 3 components of this new romantic genre are: poem, solo voice, piano accompaniment
LIED
Composer of "Ode to Joy" and the 9th Symphony
Beethoven
How many operas are in Wagner's famous RING cycle?
4
The 2nd longest European river that inspired Johann Strauss to write his most famous waltz.
Danube
Music not meant to express anything
Absolute music
He was the first musician who performed a piano solo concert and played without any sheet music.
Franz Liszt
Johann Strauss' nationality
Austrian
Type of song that is part of an opera and expresses the emotions of a character.
ARIA
The Festspielhaus was this composer's own operahouse. Who is that?
Richard Wagner
Composer of the 21 Hungarian Dances.
Johannes Brahms
The first American romantic nationalist music.
The New World symphony
Who was the first composer who wrote American nationalist music?
Antonin Dvorak
Composer of the world-famous ballett "Swan Lake"
Tchaikovsky
This compositional technic connects the romantic period music to "Darth Vader", to the sharks, to "The Lord of the Ring", and to "Harry Potter".
LEITMOTIF
Why was the romantic music diverse?
It was created by diverse human emotions.
The first keyboard instrument that could create soft and loud sounds and was very popular during the Romantic period.
pianoforte
Franz Liszt's nationality?
Hungarian (not Austrian :)
In his operas, Wagner created the artistic unity of music, poetry, scenery, and architecture. What is it called?
Gesamtkunstwerke = total work of art
Mussorgsky's music the "Gnome" and the "Ballet of the Chicks" got its theme from .......
his friend's exhibition
What is the type of music that expresses emotions, illustrates a story, describes a character.
Program music
In Austria, Johann Strauss wrote hundreds of popular dance music and was responsible for the popularity of the waltz during the 19th century. That's why he is known as ....
Waltz King
Dvorak was the director of .....
the American National Conservatory of Music in NYC
How we call the theme that composers use (first Wagner) to introduce a character, place, object, or thought.
LEITMOTIF
What was the nationality of the first composer who wrote American nationalist music?
Czech
Short musical composition designed to provide practice material to perfect a particular musical skill.
etude