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Romanticism was a reaction to the…

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Classicism

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Artists expressing their own unique views of the world

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Individualism

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Uninhibited expressions of human emotions and passions

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Heightened emotionalism

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Yearning for the unattainable, in German

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Sehnsucht (longing)

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Growing pessimism beginning to permeate the works of writers, artists, and musicians, in German

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Weltschmerz (world-weariness)

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Fascination with the distant and foreign

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Exoticism

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Piano music influenced by folk song and dance

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Nationalism

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Harmony in the romantic era explored the use of…

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New tonal centers: mediant and submediant
Modal harmony

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Rhythm in romantic era used cross-rhythms or otherwise known as…

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Hemiola

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Character pieces

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Impromptu, Berceuses, Polanaise, Barcarolles, Prélude, Waltz, Fantasies, Nocturnes, Ballad, Sonata, Variations

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The expansion of the orchestra included…

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Harp, piccolo, English horn, trombone, tuba and contrabassoon

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Technological improvements to the piano included…

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Cast iron frame that supported thicker strings, and double escapement

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The action allowed for rapid repetition of individual keys

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Double escapement

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Instrumental music with extra musical associations to literature, poetry, and visual art

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Programmatic elements

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Beautiful singing, in Italian

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bel canto

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Composer of “Trout” Quintet

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Franz Schubert

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Composed 600 German Lieders

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Franz Schubert

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Classical traits included: Symmetrical phrase structures and size and makeup of orchestras

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Franz Schubert

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Two things of contrast being together, ie: Major and minor tonality

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Juxtaposition

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They increased the role of the piano in art songs: piano accompaniment often depicts specific elements of the poem

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Schubert

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A composition written for five instruments, including the piano

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Piano quintet

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Pianist, organist, conductor, and composer

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Born in Vienna

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Franz Schubert

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Born in Hamburg, Germany

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Felix Mendelssohn

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Founded Leipzig conservatory, regarded as the finest school
Felix Mendelssohn
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“Mozart of the 19th century”
Felix Mendelssohn
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A close study of Bach’s music led to a live of counterpoint and part-writing
Felix Mendelssohn
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Influenced by the choral techniques in Hansel’s oratorios
Felix Mendelssohn
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They used rapid leggier string passages and chordal texture in the winds
Felix Mendelssohn
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youthful exuberance, lyricism, and imaginative use of orchestral colour
Felix Mendelssohn
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Music used in a film or play as background to create or enhance a particular atmosphere
Incidental Music
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Piece that used rapid string crossings, high-pitched harmonics, and spirited spiccato
Violin Concerto in E minor
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Composer of Violin Concerto in E minor
Felix Mendelssohn
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Born in Zwickau, Germany
Robert Schumann
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Composer of Carnaval
Robert Schumann
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First publication: Abegg Variations
Robert Schumann
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An instrumental piece, most often for solo piano, based on a programmatic idea
Character piece
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Played in a soft, intimate manner, in Italian
sotto voce
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Employed thematic transformation
Robert Schumann
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Wrote an album of pieces based on his personalities
Robert Schumann
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Eusebius portrays this feeling
Dreamy and Nostalgic
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Florestan portrays…
Furry and passionate side of Schumann
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Only composer who created cryptic codes in their pieces
Robert Schumann
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Liebst du um Schönheit in English
If you love for Beauty
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Composer of Liebst du um Schönheit
Clara Schumann
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Avoided virtuosity or bravura displays
Clara Schumann
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The musical setting of a poem
Art song
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Through-composed, in German
durchkomponiert
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A collection of art songs united by a central theme or narrative thread
Song cycle
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Showed outright comptent for the opposing camp: Wagner, Liszt and Bruckner
Clara Schumann
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They placed the piano on an equal footing with the singer
Clara Schumann
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All voices sing or play the same rhythm
Homorhythmic texture
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Composer of Ein deutsches Requiem
Johannes Brahms
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Ein deutsches Requiem, in English
A German Requiem
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Source of text for Ein deustsches Requiem
Old and New testaments of the German Lutheran Bible
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Born in Raiding, Hungary (Just outside Vienna, Austria)
Franz Liszt
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Composer of La Campanella
Franz Liszt
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Studied with Carl Czerny
Franz Liszt
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Worked at Weimar
Franz Liszt
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Term for translating symphonies, opera arias, Lieders, etc into piano pieces
Piano transcriptions
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Wrote piano transcriptions
Franz Liszt
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Credited for inventing the symphonic poem
Franz Liszt
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Cyclical structure or idée fixe, in Liszt
Thematic transformation
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La Campanella, in English
The Little Bell
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La Campanella is a transcription of a violin concerto by…
Niccolò Paganini
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Born in Roncole, Italy
Giuseppe Verdi
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Composer of La Triviata
Giuseppe Verdi
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Piece with librettist as: Franceso Maria Piave
La Triviata
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La Triviata, in English
The Lost One
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Based on a play by Alexandre Dumas
La Triviata
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Composer of Die Walküre
Richard Wagner
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Born in Leipzig, Germany
Richard Wagner
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A term used by Wagner to describe his operas
Music drama
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Gesamtkunstwerk, in English
Total art work
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Total art work included perfect union of…
Text, music and stagecraft
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Leitmotif, in English
Leading motive
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A melodic fragment imbued with meaning, representing a character, place, object, or emotion
Leitmotif (Leading motive)
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A device perfected by Wagner in his music dramas
Leitmotif (Leading motive)
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Heldentenor, in English
Heroic tenor
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A male voice with a high range, possessing incredible strength and stamina
Heldentenor (Heroic tenor)
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One of the few opera composers to write his own lebrettos
Richard Wagner
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Die Walküre, in English
The Valkyrie
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A piece based on Norse mythology and an epic medieval poem called the Ninelungenlied
Die Walküre
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Composer of Romeo and Juliet Overture
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
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A single-movement orchestral work with literary or pictorial associations
Concert overture

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