Review - Vocabulary - Romantic compositions

Question 1

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

opera

Answer 1

Opera is a drama that is sung and combines vocal and instrument music with drama, visual arts and often dance. It started in the Baroque era.

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 2

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is the text of an opera, oratorio, or cantata and it is usually written by someone other than the composer?

Answer 2

Libretto
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 3

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

Aria

Answer 3

Aria is Italian for ‘air’. It is a solo song with accompaniment, heard in an opera, oratorio, or cantata. It is highly emotional, often virtuosic and reveals the character’s intimate emotions.

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 4

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

Libretto

Answer 4

Libretto is the text of an opera, oratorio, or cantata and it is usually written by someone other than the composer.

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 5

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is is a rhythmic or melodic pattern repeated for an extended period?

Answer 5

Ostinato
Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet (the habanera rhythm)

Spring, Violin concerto, Vivaldi (the dog barking in the third movement)

Question 6

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

Habanera

Answer 6

Habanera is a Cuban dance-song with a rhythmic motive that is often used as an ostinato.

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 7

What is the term for the following definition:

Berlioz came up with this term and it’s French for ‘fixed idea”. It’s a recurrent theme that links the multi-movements. In symphonie fantastique, it represents ‘the beloved’

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 7

idee fixe

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 8

Define the definition and provide the associated title and its genre and composer.

polonaise

Answer 8

Polonaise is a Polish court dance in triple meter and Chopin changed it into virtuosic piano pieces.

Polonaise in A flat Major, op. 53, solo piano, Chopin

Question 9

Provide the term for the definition below and give associated title and its genre and composer.

What is the song structure that dos not repeat entire sections of the music and the music changes to match the poem?

Answer 9

durchkomponiert (through-composed)

(Recognition is sufficient for durchkomponiert). You can provide the English term of through-composed.

Erlking, lied, Schubert

Question 10

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

Exoticism in music

Answer 10

Exoticism in music is an important Romantic era musical style in which composers express their fascination with foreign lands and cultures using different melody, rhythm, harmony, and orchestration

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 11

Provide the term for the definition below and give associated title and its genre and composer.

What is the musical setting of a German poem for solo voice and piano accompaniment?

Answer 11

Lied (plural Lieder)

Erlking, lied, Schubert

Question 12

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is a half-singing, half-talking way of singing in operas, oratorios, and cantatas that follows the sounds of the texts and tells the plot?

Answer 12

Recitative

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 13

What is the term that means “day of wrath” in Latin? It’s a monophonic chant and used in requiem (mass for the dead). The music is associated with funerals.

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 13

Dies irae

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 14

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is a drama that is sung and combines vocal and instrument music with drama, visual arts and often dance. It started in the Baroque era.

Answer 14

opera

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 15

Define the definition and provide the associated title and its genre and composer.

rubato (tempo rubato)

Answer 15

Rubato stands for “robbed time” in Italian. It’s a rhythmic flexibility in which the perform can speed up or slow down to interpret music.

Polonaise in A flat Major, op. 53, solo piano, Chopin

Question 16

Provide the term for the definition below and provide the associated title and its genre and composer.

Rubato stands for “robbed time” in Italian. It’s a rhythmic flexibility in which the perform can speed up or slow down to interpret music.

Answer 16

Rubato (tempo rubato)

Polonaise in A flat Major, op. 53, solo piano, Chopin

Question 17

What is the term for the following definition:

• a 19th century multi-movement orchestral work that has descriptive title and often has accompanying text that outlines the program

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 17

program symphony

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 18

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

Ostinato

Answer 18

Ostinato is a rhythmic or melodic pattern repeated for an extended period.

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet (the habanera rhythm)

Spring, Violin concerto, Vivaldi (the dog barking in the third movement)

Question 19

What is Dies irae? (audio has the pronunciation)

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 19

It’s a monophonic chant and used in requiem (mass for the dead). The music is associated with funerals.

(audio has the dies irae from Symphonie fantastique)

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 20

Provide the definition and give associated title and its genre and composer.

Lied (plural Lieder)

Answer 20

Lied is the musical setting of a German poem for solo voice and piano accompaniment.

Erlking, lied, Schubert

Question 21

Provide the definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

Recitative

Answer 21

Recitative is a half-singing, half-talking way of singing in operas, oratorios, and cantatas that follows the sounds of the texts and tells the plot.

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 22

Provide the definition and give associated title and its genre and composer.

durchkomponiert (through-composed)

Answer 22

Through-composed is a song structure that dos not repeat entire sections of the music. instead, the music changes to match the poem.

Erlking, lied, Schubert

Question 23

Provide the term for the definition below and give associated title and its genre and composer.

What is the musical setting of a poem for solo voice and generally with piano accompaniment?

Answer 23

Art song

Erlking, lied, Schubert

Question 24

What is col legno?

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 24

This term is Italian for “with the wood”. Berlioz used this new string effect in which the player plays tap the strings with the wooden parts of their bows.

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 25

Provide the definition and give associated title and its genre and composer

art song

Answer 25

Art song is the musical setting of a poem. It’s for solo voice and generally with piano accompaniment.

Erlking, lied, Schubert

Question 26

Provide the term for the definition below and provide the associated title and its genre and composer.

What is a Polish court dance in triple meter and Chopin changed it into virtuosic piano pieces?

Answer 26

Polonaise

Polonaise in A flat Major, op. 53, solo piano, Chopin

Question 27

What is the term for the following definition:
This term is Italian for “with the wood”. Berlioz used this new string effect in which the plays tap the strings with the wooden parts of their bows.

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 27

col legno

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 28

What is program symphony?

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 28

• a 19th century multi-movement orchestral work that has descriptive title and often has accompanying text that outlines the program

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 29

What is idee fixe?

Provide associated title and its genre and composer.

Answer 29

Berlioz came up with this term. it’s French for ‘fixed idea”. It’s a recurrent theme that links the multi-movements. In symphonie fantastique, it represents ‘the beloved’

Symphonie fantastique, program symphony, Berlioz.

Question 30

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is the Italian for “air”, a solo song with accompaniment, heard in an opera, oratorio, or cantata. It is highly emotional, often virtuosic and reveals the character’s intimate emotions?

Answer 30

Aria

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 31

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is the Romantic era musical style in which composers express their fascination with foreign lands and cultures using different melody, rhythm, harmony, and orchestration.

Answer 31

Exoticism in music

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet

Question 32

Give the term of the following definition and give the associated title and its genre and title.

What is is a Cuban dance-song with a rhythmic motive that is often used as an ostinato?

Answer 32

Habanera

Carmen, lyric opera, Bizet