Download Romantic Era in Music: Terms, Composers, and Movements and more Quizzes Music in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Romantic Expansion Era DEFINITION 1 1820-1900emotionalsymphony for the oppressedpoets and artists turned to passionate and fanciful subjects; novels explored deep human conflicts and exotic settings and subjs.industrial revolution spurred technical advances in instruments (more flexible & affordable)musical conservatories appeared across Europe and America TERM 2 Charles Dickens DEFINITION 2 wrote about poor suffering from the rich TERM 3 Bohemian DEFINITION 3 hippies of Europefree spirits TERM 4 French Revolution DEFINITION 4 liberty, Equality, Fraternityfrench revolution fostered rise of middle class. TERM 5 Industrial Revolution changes DEFINITION 5 1. wind instruments get valves for wider rangements ex. grand piano2.conservatories- special schools teach music to become virtuosos ex. Juilliard, UCLA, USC3. Orchestration- technique for being able to compose for any instrument. 4. level of expression (italian/french/german) words added feeling under notes/words5. folk music 6. harmony-complex. dissonanace 7. conductor 8. soloists TERM 6 Art song DEFINITION 6 Lied (er)1 soloist + pianostrophic- same music every stanzathrough compound- music different every stanza TERM 7 Franz Shubert DEFINITION 7 bohemiandied at 31 because of syphilisVienna boys choir- kicked out at pubertyErlking4 voices +pianonarratorfathersonerlking TERM 8 piano DEFINITION 8 polkas, waltz, marches, night musicChopin- poet of pianoduel citizenship born poland/ lived in Francecreated Rubato- robbed time (expanding sound) TERM 9 program music DEFINITION 9 story telling symphony1. concert overture2.incidential music3. program symphony-opium man beheaded (symphony fantastique)4.symphany poem TERM 10 concert overture DEFINITION 10 opening piece with literary idea TERM 21 Dvorak DEFINITION 21 New yorkWrote symphony about america called new world symphony TERM 22 Verdi DEFINITION 22 wrote 28 operasmost famous:Ida(suez canal)Rigoletto (greed) famous aria La Donne e Mobile (women is fickle) TERM 23 Richard Wagner DEFINITION 23 primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). leitmotif - reoccurring theme representing a person, object, or idea used in Wagner's operas. TERM 24 Gesamtkunstwerk DEFINITION 24 total art work TERM 25 Ring of the Nibelungs DEFINITION 25 characters: ovotun lives in Valhalla castlehero - Sigfreid9 daughters - Valkeriesmost famous daughter is broomhilda TERM 26 Puccini DEFINITION 26 madame butterfly TERM 27 Tchaikovsky DEFINITION 27 swan lakenutcracker TERM 28 20th century DEFINITION 28 experimental/impressionismsymbolist movement- new scale (s note) pentatonic scale1889- 1st fair - special orchestra from Java Bali the Gambolan Orchestra TERM 29 Claude Debussy DEFINITION 29 Prelude to the aftermath of a fawn 1/2 goat 1/2 man TERM 30 Expressionism DEFINITION 30 Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. applied to composers of the second viennese school. TERM 31 Arnold Schoenberg DEFINITION 31 twelve tone movementsprechstimme- 1/2 talk 1/2 singing TERM 32 neoclassicism DEFINITION 32 combined elements of classical and baroque music with modernist trends TERM 33 polytonality DEFINITION 33 simultaneously using 2 or more keys TERM 34 polyrhythm DEFINITION 34 simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns or meters TERM 35 Stravinsky DEFINITION 35 Rite of springcaused a lot of uproar- girl damned to death for spring to happenriot in 1913
