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Romantic period

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Romanticism   Reaction to the ideals of the Classic era; extreme, expressive; conservative vs liberal  
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Nationalism   Composers cultivating their own national identity through music; using folk song ideas  
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Virutoso   Being an extremely proficient at only one instrument as opposed to able to play many  
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Program Music   Music that conveys a story, emotion or idea other than whats on the page  
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Absolute Music   Music that had no extramusical appropriations  
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F. Schubert   Son of school teacher; liked to match words to music; very big on expression;  
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H. Berlioz   Leader of radical romantic movement; pushed limits of orchestration; founder of modern conducting  
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F. Mendelssohn   Conservative romantic composer. Conducted St. Matthew's Passion. Used Baroque genres with expressive Romanticism. Embraced growing tradition and influence of past music.  
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Robert Schumann   Took lessons from Weich (Clara's father). Character pieces super important. Went crazy in old age. Married Clara. Fathered 8 children.  
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Clara Schumann   Performed; a virtuoso. Travelled a lot. Married Robert, curbed performances. Had 8 children. Wasn't allowed to play while Robert composed.  
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F. Chopin   Piano. Moved to Paris. Highest social circles. New possibilities for piano; stronger frame, more dynamics for example.  
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Lied   German song.  
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Song Cycle   Set of songs about an idea.  
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Schubertiad   Group of musicians; playing Schubert's music in his salons  
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Damper pedal   Dampens the sound; gives a different texture.  
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Idee fixe   Repeated motive/melody  
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Dies irae   Chant sequence; used as a symbol of death, the macabre, or the diabolical  
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Tempo Rubato   "Stolen time". Distortion of tempo for expressive purposes  
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Grand Opera   After the French Revolution, the government funded opera houses. The large budget created huge scale operas; some featured an on-stage pond and real elephants. This was super expensive to fund, and ran out of money quickly.  
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Scribe and Meyerbeer   Librettist and composer; leaders of French Grand Opera  
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Opera comique   Spoken dialogue instead of recit. ; less pretentious than grand opera; straightforward comedy or serious drama  
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Opera bouffe   Offenbach was a leader of this genre; witty satirical elements of comic opera  
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Lyric opera   Between comique and grand; main appeal through melody; romantic drama or fantasy; Gounod is famous for this genre.  
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Exoticism   Exaggerated composition of a "foreign" land. ie. Bizet's Carmen, Spanish flavour.  
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Seguidila   Exotic piece; fast in 3/4 meter. Accomp. like strum of guitar  
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G. Rossini   One of the most popular composers of his generation. Opera scene; Italian; known for comic operas. Blended buffa and seria  
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Patter song   Rapidly delivered recitative; repeated often, with speed and precision  
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Bel canto   Seemingly effortless technique, beautiful tone through entire range, agility, flexibility, and control. Most important aspect is the voice.  
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Cavatina   entrance aria  
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Cantibile   Developed by Rossini. First section of aria, slow, expressing calm mood.  
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Cabaletta   Developed by Rossini. Last section of aria, lively and brilliant, expressing joy or despair.  
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G. Verdi   Ruling presence of Italian music second half of 19th century. "patriotic", Viva verdi. Human drama in his operas. Vocal melody important. Very Romantic era, expressive.  
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Reminiscence motives   Repeating motives from earlier theme; unified the work musically.  
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C. M. Von Weber   Established German Romantic opera. Emphasized folklore, fairy tales, supernatural. Nationalism envoked.  
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German Romantic opera   Emphasized folklore, fairy tales. Singspiel root.  
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R. Wagner   One of most influential composers. Believed main purpose of music to serve dramatic expression. Supported by King of Bavaria. Saw himself as Beethoven's successor. Exiled to Switzerland for political ties.  
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Der Ring des Nebelungen   Ring Cycle; series of operas telling story of a magical ring. 19 hours of music over 4 consecutive evenings. LOTR similar.  
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Bayreuth Festspielhaus   Hall built strictly for Wagner's works. Ran today by his descendants.  
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Music Drama   Genre created by Wagner; as complete work of art (aka Gesamtkunstwerk)  
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Gesamtkunstwerk   Oneness of drama and music  
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Leitmotif   "leading motive", associated with person, event, emotion, thing, etc. Reoccur throughout to work; sense of contiunity  
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Anxiety of Influence   Living in the shadow of composers such as Beethoven; scared some composers from writing or publishing works as to not be compared to him.  
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F. Liszt   Intriguing music personality. Virtuoso, pushed piano to its limit, inspired by Panini; taught, composed, performed; ended career in church  
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Symphonic (tone) poem   1-movement programmatic work. few themes developed.  
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Transcription   Liszt used this to bring other's original works to audience  
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J. Brahms   Leading German composer of his time. Pianist, composer, teacher. Supporters of Schumanns. Applied formal genres, conservative romantic.  
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Tchaikovsky   Leading Russian composer of his time. Consevatory training. Most famous for ballets.  
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B. Smetana   Bohemian composer. Sought to create national music.  
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A. Dvorak   Peasant background. "the Bohemian Brahms". Advocated music nationalism. Violinist  
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G. Mahler   Leading Austro-German composer of symphonies after Brahms. Born in Bohemia. Career as opera and orch, conductor. Programmatic, expressive composer.  
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Orchestral Lied   German-based art song, written for symphony.  
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R. Strauss   Dominant figure in German musical life. Mastered orchestra. Composer and conductor. Wrote tone poems.  
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Mighty Handful   Balakriev, Borodin, Cui, Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korasov. Regular people, wanting to keep Russian nationalism alive. Learned to compose; Modest Musorgsky most famous.  
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E. Grieg   Norweigan composer. Wanting to keep nationalism alive. Piano style emulates Chopin. Modal, bass drones, changing time signature.  
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E. Elgar   First famous English composer in over 200 years. Music not inspired by folk songs.  
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G. Puccini   Most successful Italian composer after Verdi. Distinct style; focuses on vocal melody. Famous Madam Butterfly.  
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