Mus 32 Study Guide #5

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ROMANTIC PERIOD STUDY GUIDE / HOMEWORK The Powerpoint slides will help you with filling in the study guide. 1) Dates for the Romantic Period – 1820-1900 2) The orchestra in the Romantic period was larger with conductor 3) In the Romantic period imagination and emotion were more important than rationality and logic . 4) Romanticism can in part be characterized by a fascination with unknown forces and struggles against them , nostalgia; long ago and far away , macabre; beauty and cruelty and violence , fantasy and nightmare 5) Works of art during this period were poetry, explored in literature, music, and the prestige of music . 6) The piano and its repertoire came to prominence during this period. 7) The 3 big opera composers of this period were Franz Schubert , Hector Berlioz , and Felix Mendelssohn . 8) Some characteristics of melody during this period might be emotional effusive, ranged, climaxes, irregular, chromatic notes, pentatonic scales 9) Some characteristics of harmony during this period might be rich, warm, colorful, new chords, chromatic notes, juxtaposition of chords, modulations, dissonance, harmony used on its own not as an accompaniment 10) Some characteristics of rhythm during this period might be freedom in tempo 11) Some characteristics of design during this period might be frequently thicker, heavier texture, monumental and miniature form 12) Some characteristics of timbre during this period might be more brass and winds, higher lower instruments, mechanical innovations, cross stringing, metal frame, sustain and soft pedals, virtusos

13) What was that story behind the Symphonie Fantastique? 1830 Program music 5 movements 1. Reveries, Passions 2. A Ball 3. Scene in the Fields 4. March to the Scaffold 5. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath (listen for col legno and Dies irae) 14) rubato – performs slight deviations from a strict tempo, robbing time 15) lied / lieder – German word for art song, melody expresses the world, some singers specialize, translations lose the subtleties 16) strophic form - a song in which several words are sung to the same melody 17) through composed - a song that contains no repetition 18) program music – instrumental music works associated by the composers with an extra musical idea or object. Program symphony, tone poem, overture, incidental music. 19) idée fixe – a theme that is transformed at various places in a composition. 20) Nationalism – a deliberate, conscious attempt to develop artworks that are characterized of a particular country or region 21) exoticism – the quality of being unusual and exciting because of coming (or seeming to come) from far away, especially a tropical country 22) verismo – a realist style of opera that emerged in Italy in the 1890s. Most verismo operas depict gritty plots and lower-class, contemporary characters and settings. 23) incidental music – a song, score, or soundtrack created to heighten the emotions of a particular scene of performance on stage, in a film or tv show, in a video game, or even in a podcast or audiobook. 24) leitmotiv – associated melodic phrase of figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea or a person or situation especially in a wagnerian music drama 25) character piece – keyboard work expressing mood or idea, ballade, fantasia, nocturne, etude, waltz, romance Listening Pieces - Please write a listening clue.

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