Midterm Flashcards
(26 cards)
distinctive stylistic feature of beet’s symphony no 3
unprecedented length of first movement
heroic narrative implicit in beet’s 5th symphony conveyed partly through…
conclusion of the symphony parallel major mode of tonic key
beet’s late style NOT characterized by
simplified performance challenges for amateurs
piano emerged as important and widely used bc of
it could produce a wide variety of sonorities and textures
romantic composers like schubert and mendelssohn used lyrical, long themes in their symphonic works. how did this affect their treatment of sonata form?
focussed in their development sections not on lyrical material, but on new or secondary motivic material
schumman’s 4th symphony and mendelssohn’s violin concerto both…
contain movements linked to each other without pause
nationalism in italy and germany rose differently than in france because…
they had not been cohesive nation states until second half of the century
rossini’s una cove poco fa nad bellini’s casta diva both
contain cantabile and cabaletta sections
les huguenots historical events connoted by
16th century lutheran chorale melody
wagner’s view of music history, important precedent for his own synthesis of drama and music was
beet’s symphonies
wagner’s ring cycle about
conflicting desires for power and love among mythological and human characters
as opposed to reminiscence motives, wagnerian leiymotives
connote change in character and drama through musical development and combination
la traviata plot is an example of
realism
wagner and verdi’s main common achievement
both developed new ways of using orchestra as an expressive rather than merely accompanimental device in opera
tf beet used old fashioned baroque contrapuntal techniques during his last decade
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tf choral societies played progressive, new music
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tf following defeat of napoleon in 1815, restored french monarchy immediately closed opera houses for portention for politifcal subversion
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tf singers like victor maurel neglected quality of their acting and stage presence inorder to focus on the increasingly challenging vocal demannds
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tf russian composers known as the mighty 5 inspired less by classical symphonists like mizart and mendellsohn than progressive composers like liszt and berlioz
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tf strauss’s tone poems based on narrative episodes from lit, not abstract philosophical or lyrical texts
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beet’s symphony no 3 title
eroica
wagner’s big idea
Gesamtkunstwerk
30s-40s opera capital
paris
beet’s symphony that moves from Cm to CM
no 5 (also bram’s no1)
