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The Orchestra
Program Music
Instrumental Advances
Opera
Miscellaneous
100
This is the blending of different instrumental sounds to create up particular moods or emotions.
What is orchestration?
100
Music that tells a story.
What is program music?
100
This technical advance was added to brass instruments so they could play more notes, therefore being able to be the stars of the music.
What are valves?
100
This composer dominated German opera with his "music dreams."
Who is Richard Wagner?
100
For the first time, they became the major consumers of music.
Who is the general public?
200
Romantic orchestras could produce a bigger this because there were more musicians playing in them.
What is a sound?
200
Often, program music was based on this.
What is a literary source? (Poem, story, etc.)
200
This instrument began to be built with iron bracing to strengthen the frame.
What is the piano?
200
This technique of recurring themes were used as signature tunes that symbolized characters.
What is leitmotif?
200
These performers were extremely skilled at their instruments, and sometimes relied on tricks to heighten the drama of their performances.
What are virtuosos?
300
This orchestra section increased in size and composers wrote differently for them so they could contribute during the loud parts.
What is the strings section?
300
This type of program music is a small-single movement work written in first-movement form.
What is the concert overture?
300
This New York company built overstrung grand pianos, producing a big, brilliant sound suitable for virtuoso performers.
What is Steinway and Sons?
300
When the story is being explained, the characters sing this type of opera music that is similar to speaking.
What is recitative?
300
Romantic composers expanded their range of these, creating a range of loudness and softness that heightened drama.
What are dynamics?
400
This section expanded to include more exotic instruments, such as castanets and gongs.
What is the percussion section?
400
This program music is a work in several movements based on a literary theme.
What is the program symphony?
400
These made instruments more responsive to players, allowing composers to write music that could not have been playable during the Classical Period.
What are technical advances?
400
This French opera style dealt with historical themes and high ideals that was a real spectacle.
What is grand opera?
400
This refers to the quality of the sound played by a particular instrument compared to the sound of another instrument playing the same thing.
What is tone color?
500
These woodwind instruments were created during the Romantic period.
What are the piccolo, the bass clarinet, and the English horn?
500
This is a large one-moevment orchestral work that is designed to evoke a mood or draw a picture.
What is the symphonic poem (tone poem)?
500
Piano builder Erard developed this, which allows the hammers to fall back as soon as the string in struck.
What is double escapement?
500
He was the grand master of Italian opera in the Romantic period.
Who is Giuseppe Verdi?
500
These, or lieder, were written for a single voice accompanied by piano, where the piano is equally as important in expressing the composer's mood.
What are art songs?