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Question 1

What was Robert Schumann's approach to writing specific genres of music?

Accepted Answer

went through all major genres of the time, focused on one genre at a time

Question 2

How were Mendelssohn's concertos unlike the show pieces composed by most virtuosi of the time?

Accepted Answer

emphasized musical content

Question 3

What is a character piece?

Accepted Answer

descriptive works that depict mood, personality or scene, title indicates the mood, personality, and scene

Question 4

Why do Mendelssohn's works sound more Classical in style than Berlioz's music?

Accepted Answer

his works exhibit a mastery of sonata & concerto form of Mozart & Beethoven, command of counterpoint and fugue

Question 5

Who were the models for Schumann's symphonies?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven, Schubert, Mendolssohn

Question 6

What did Schumann espouse regarding string quartets?

Accepted Answer

a four-way conversation where parts are equal

Question 7

What are the two other names Schumann identified himself and applied to a couple of character pieces within Carnaval?

Accepted Answer

Florestan and Eusebius

Question 8

Who was Robert Schumann?

Accepted Answer

composed piano music, songs, chamber music, and symphonies, influential music critic & outstanding composer, injured hand and became a critic and met composers

Question 9

What happened to Clara Schumann's music after her death?

Accepted Answer

her works disappeared for more than 100 years, her works became known after interest in female composers arose

Question 10

What was it that Beethoven conferred on the symphony and what effect did have on later composers?

Accepted Answer

a prestigious status; became a rite of passage to full recognition

Question 11

Among Lied composers, who was the first important successor to Schubert?

Accepted Answer

Schumann

Question 12

Who was Clara Schumann?

Accepted Answer

foremost pianist of her day & distinguished composer and teacher, child prodigy; toured at age of 9, Robert's wife

Question 13

Schumann was the master of what form?

Accepted Answer

piano & song, miniature form

Question 14

What was Clara Schumann's approach to song setting?

Accepted Answer

capturing each poem's mood in long preludes and postludes;, making piano & voice equal partners in conveying images of poem's feelings, maintaining a particular figuration throughout

Question 15

What is a musical cypher?

Accepted Answer

representing names with notes, a cypher using music

Question 16

In his Lieder, how did Schumann treat the piano and voice?

Accepted Answer

piano had a long prelude before the entrance of voice, as equal partners

Question 17

What is a Romantic period choral festival?

Accepted Answer

events where lare amateur Romantic choruses from many regions performed, events modeled after those in England, centered on Handel's oratorios, a fun time

Question 18

What are the bulk of Schumann's piano pieces?

Accepted Answer

short character pieces

Question 19

Who was Felix Mendelssohn?

Accepted Answer

at 20, conducted Bach's "Saint Matthew's Passion", sparking a Bach revival, one of most prominent composers of his generation

Question 20

What Romantic traits did Mendelssohn combine w/Classic forms & Baroque learned style that helped to determine his style?

Accepted Answer

colorful orchestration and frequent use of pictorial depiction

Question 21

Which of Mendelssohn's masterpieces was written when he was 17, yet set a concert overture standard?

Accepted Answer

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Question 22

What two oratorios by Mendelssohn have become standards of the choral repertoire?

Accepted Answer

Saint Paul and Elijah

Question 23

What is strikingly different about Mendelssohn's violin concerto from usual Classic concerto?

Accepted Answer

cadenza before recapitulation, solo states the theme at the outset, skips orchestral exposition

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