Music Appreciation Quiz 4 Flashcards
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Instruments of the romantic era
Were more flexible
More durable
And capable of more sounds
Romantic music is characterized by
Memorable melodies
Richly expressive harmony
Broad expanded forms
Orchestration
The technique of writing for instruments individually and together
Dolce
Sweetly
Cantabile
Song full
Maestoso
Majestic
Gioioso
Joyous
Conamore
With love
Tenderly
Dolente
Sorrowful
Lied
German art song for solo voice and piano
Favored romantic genre
Poets of the lied
Goethe
Heine
(wrote about love)
Strophic form
The same melody is repeated with every stanza
Ex. Hymns, carols, most folk and popular songs
Through composed form
Proceeds from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections
Modified strophic form
The same melody may be repeated for two or three stanzas with new material appearing when the poem needs it
Usually at the climax
Song cycle
A group of lieder unified by a narrative thread or descriptive theme
Elfking
Schubert Genre: lied Form: thorough composed Solo voice and piano Based on a poem by Goethe
Etudes
Highly virtuosic and technical study
Intermezzo
Interlude
Impromptu
On the spur of the moment
Nocturne
Night piece
Polonaisaes and mazurkas
Native dance forms
Mazurka
Lively triplet meter dance with accents on the second or third beat of the measure
Most have a simple ternary form A B A
Mazurka in B flat minor op 24 no 4
Chopin
Genre: mazurka for solo piano
September at the river from the year
Hensel
Genre: character piece from a programmatic style of 12
Form: ternary
Polyphonic