3RD QUARTER Flashcards
- was both sacred and secular
- has one sound/single line melodies
- plain song/ plain chants (GREGORIAN CHANT)
1150
Medieval Period
- music for entertainment
- birth of polyphonic (GOLDEN AGE)
- imitation of voices
1400
Renaissance Period
- sound elaborate and ornamental
- homophonic
- may be loud and soft - TERRACE DYNAMICS
Baroque Period
- age of reason
- practice of alberti bass
Classical Period
What word was first used to describe new ideas in painting and literature?
Romanticism
Which composers aimed for a store powerful expression of emotion, often revealing their innermost thoughts and feelings
Romantic composers
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
Freedom of -and -. It was more - and - .
form and design
personal and emotional
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
- melodies (lyrical), as well as many chromatic harmonies and discord
Song-like
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
Dramatic contrasts of - and -
dynamics and pitch
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
- orchestras, due mainly to brass and invention of the?
big
valve
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
- variety of pieces
Wide
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
What music tells a story?
Programme music
Main characteristics of Romantic Music:
Great technical -
virtuosity
What is the last characteristics of Romantic Music:
Nationalism
Who are the composers of violin and strings music?
- Niccolo Paganini
- Frederic Chopin
- Franz Liszt
- Robert Schumann
Who are the composers of Program Music?
- Hector Berlioz
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Camille Saint-Seans
He was also rumored to have a problem with women and gambling.
Paganini
His compositions inspired a lot of other composers such as Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann to name a few.
Paganini
Became the most famous violin virtuoso in the world.
Paganini
His violin teachers could not keep up with the progress of his violin skills that he kept on transferring from one violin teacher to another and was therefore filled with all their influences.
Paganini
Together with his fame came the rumors that said that his amazing violin skills were a gift from the devil and that he sold his soul in exchange for those skills
Paganini
Known as the “Poet of the Piano”
Chopin
He was known for his originality in regards to piano.
Chopin
A verse form usually consisting of three stanzas of eight or ten
lines each along with a brief envoy, with all three stanzas and the envoy
ending in the same one-line refrain.
Ballade
A piece composed for the development of a specific point of
technique.
Etude
A Polish dance resembling the polka, frequently adopted as a
ballet form usually in triple time signature.
Mazurka
An instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood,
especially one for the piano
Nocturne
A stately, march like Polish dance, primarily a promenade by
couples.
Polonaise
An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a
more important one
Prelude
A piece of music for this dance
Waltz
A short composition, especially for the piano, performed in an
offhand or extemporized style.
Impromtu
a musical movement of playful character, typically in aba form
Scherzo
composition for one or more solo instruments, one of which is
usually a keyboard instrument, usually consisting of three or four.
Sonata
What is the best to describe Liszt?
Virtuoso
He was known as the virtuoso pianist and composer and the busiest musicians during the romantic era, which include playing and studying at Vienna and Paris at the same time touring throughout Europe by giving
concerts.
Liszt
He displayed remarkable talent at young age and easily understands sight-reading through the effort of his father as the first teacher at age six.
Liszt
Italy?
Paganini
Poland
Chopin
Hungary
Liszt
One of the famous Romantic composers that beautifully combined music and words
Schumann
Was a composer and music critic
Schumann
Rhapsodies Robert Schumann
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