Music 1010 Romantic Era Review

__________ influenced the production & spread of pianos by mass-producing them, allowing more households to buy them.

In Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theme in the strings suggests the kingdom of the fairies.

During his lifetime, Beethoven was widely recognized as the greatest living composer of instrumental music.

We know that the loud crash in the 4th movement of Symphonie fantastique represents the fall of the guillotine because:

Lied is the German genre of song that typically involves ______ and _____.

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Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests a kingdom of ____. Schubert’s Erlkönig has a king of _____.

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Declaratory melody is used in the accompanied recitative sections of La Traviata.

The Symphonie fantastique captures Romanticism’s fascination with gothic, grotesque subject matter.

In La Traviata, the lyrical melody of Alfredo’s voice is used to express emotional ____

Chopin suffered from ________

The texture of Chopin’s Mazurka is _______ with an occasional drone bass.

For the Romantic artist, dreams were as important as the intellect.

During Schubert’s lifetime, Lieder were meant to be performed in the home, frequently at a salon gathering.

The dynamics in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 repeatedly shift drastically & unexpectedly from extreme dynamic levels.

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_______ advised young pianist to listen carefully and often too great singers.

Chopin was Polish but spent most of his life in France.

The _________ of Chopin’s piano compositions was described as being akin to passionate speech, which speeds up & slows.

In Schubert’s “Erlkönig,” (#) singer depicts narrator & three other characters: the father, son, & Erlkönig (Elf King)

Berlioz’s creative use of brass & percussion in the 4th movement of Symphonie fantastique demonstrates his mastery of...

Beethoven supposedly said the opening idea of Symphony no. 5 is fate knocking on the door.

In La Traviata, Verdi emphasizes the word “enjoy!” (“Gior!”) using _______

Winds are used in the opening measures of _________ to draw the listener into the realm of the enchanted forest.

In the nineteenth century, music was considered the ______________ because it provided access to unknown

The opening motive in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 can be characterized as short-short-short-LONG, aka:

Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 is ______ because the opening motif recurs in various permutations in all four movements.

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The Polish origins of Chopin’s Mazurkas make them an example of 19th century nationalism

In 1st movement of Symphony no. 5, Beethoven transforms the opening motif by changing instruments & placing motif in...

RANDOM FACTS!

The recurring musical idea, the idée fixe, is heard just before the guillotine falls in Symphonie fantastique.

Many of Berlioz’s contemporaries criticized him for

Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows the basic conventions of sonata form.

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Violetta from Verdi’s La Traviata is suffering from a terminal illness

Program music became more important in the 19th century as composers sought to integrate purely instrumental music with:

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