Romantic Era Music

The Romantic Opera was much smaller in comparison to the Classical Operas.

The overall size of the orchestra grew in order for there to be greater dymanics, louds and softs in the music.

Even though Beethoven went deaf, he still composed and conducted.

This composer found some success as a music critic, but did not like that it took away from his own composition time.

A pictorial or descriptive orchestral work in several movements.

This composer studied to become a teacher but only taught for 3 years before deciding his true passion was for music.

"The Moldau" is an example of a Symphonic Poem

An instrumental piece for piano that has lyrical and dramatic qualities.

A musical composition that is inspired by the night.

Many of the composers during this time would travel Europe to perform, conduct, and share their music.

Romanticism was more of a reaction to the industrialism, as well as criticism of the aristocracy and political norms.

Who composed the German Lieder Erlkonig?

Many of the composers of this time had great wealth and success for the full time of their lives.

The piano as we know it was once called a pianoforte or fortepiano.

A type of program music written for textural materials including stories or plays.

A romantic era piece in an ABA ternary form.

An orchestral program music in one long movement.

A song for a solo singer and orchestra.

A work created not to a standard style or convention.

Tones from a musical scale consisting entirely of half-steps.

No symphonic works during this era ever used vocals or choruses in their composition.

Frederic Chopin wrote many great symphonies along with his piano music.

A musical composition in free-form with roots in improvisation, also called a fantasia.

A one-movement free-form style featuring a range of highly contrasting moods, color, and tonality.

This composer was also a child prodigy and at age 7 had even wrote his first composition.

An instrumental composition that attempts to convey a specific idea without using lyrics.

This composer developed his own individual style and had built up a reputation of innovative and forward-thinking music.

A movement in the arts ad literature that emphasized inspiration and subjectivity.