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period of Western Classical music that ran from 1820 to 1900

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Romantic period

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the term originated from the Medieval romance, a poem or tale about heroic events or persons

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romantic

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Freedom of form — composers wrote more emotional and personal pieces.
Lyrical, or song-like melodies
Dramatic contrasts of dynamics & pitch
Big orchestras — due to the invention of valves for brass instruments
Technical virtuosity

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Characteristics of Romantic music

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is a piece of music inspired by or evocative of the night

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nocturne

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comes from the French word for “nocturnal” which meant “night.”

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nocturne

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is a character piece for piano, which means that it is a short composition written for piano which expresses a specific mood

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nocturne

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who published the first examples of nocturnes in 1814

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John Field

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what form is nocturne written

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ABA

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is a technical exercise that tackled a specific problem that evolved into a musical composition

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etude

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Coming from the French word for “study,”

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etude

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published collections of the first etudes in the late 18th to the early 19th century

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Muzio Clementi

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was initially a Polish folk dance in the 15th and 16th century

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Polonaise

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is French for Polish

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Polonaise

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was used as an umbrella term by French people for various Polish folk dances, which first came to France in the 17th century

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Polonaise

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mainly referred to piano music

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Polonaise

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Polonaise characterizations

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Triple time;
Slow to moderate tempo;
March-like rhythm.

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Frédéric Chopin was born in

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Warsaw, Poland in 1810

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He was a composer and virtuoso pianist who wrote pieces primarily for solo piano performance.

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Frédéric Chopin

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__ years old, he left Warsaw, Poland and moved to Paris, France(Frédéric Chopin)

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moved to Paris, France—where he stayed until his death in_ ____ possibly due to tuberculosis.(Frédéric Chopin)

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October 1849

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At a young age, he was already showing signs of having high musical talent

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Frédéric Chopin

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He grew up listening to his mother and older sister playing the piano, and by the age of _, he was already reproducing what he was hearing and creating new ones.(Frédéric Chopin)

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He was then put under the tutelage of _ _, a 61-year old all-around musician, but Chopin was so advanced in his skill that he was able to surpass those of his teacher’s

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Wojciech Zywny

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he was enrolled in the Warsaw Conservatory of Music at(Frédéric Chopin)

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a Polish composer who also taught Chopin music theory director of Warsaw Conservatory of Music
Joseph Elsner
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He was sent by his parents to study in _(Frédéric Chopin)(Vienna)
Vienna
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he made his performance debut in ____(Frédéric Chopin)
1829
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He was able to write his first(Frédéric Chopin)
etudes
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When he was much older, he supported himself financially by(Frédéric Chopin)
teaching piano and selling his compositions
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He also played public concerts.(Frédéric Chopin)
Frédéric Chopin
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Chopin was admired by his musical contemporaries, including _ _ with whom he formed a friendship.
Franz Liszt
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He wrote in a variety of styles that contained influences from Polish folk music as well as the Baroque & classical techniques of Bach and Mozart.
Frédéric Chopin
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Franz Liszt was born in
Raiding, Hungary
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Franz Liszt was born on(date)
October 22, 1811
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His father,_ , was a multi-instrumentalist and was his first music teacher, teaching him piano.(Franz Liszt)
Adam
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By the age of _, Liszt was already a known prodigy, and by age _, he was already doing short compositions
6, 8
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he was already performing in concerts at age(Franz Liszt)
9
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Mozart’s rival, offered to teach Franz Liszt composition for free after hearing him play in a home in Vienna, and for the next few months, Liszt would perform for both kings and musicians.
Antonio Salieri
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His father, Adam, would pass away in ____, and this would result in a very depressive period for Franz.
1826
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Because of his grief, he turned away from music and instead focused on reading books about art and religion. It would later be realized that the things he read about would inspire his later musical compositions.
l
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Before his death, he continued to work on compositions and was also able to put up the _ _ _ _ _ _ in Budapest.(Franz Liszt)
Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music
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Liszt died in ____ due to pneumonia.
1886
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Composers of the Romantic Period
Franz Schubert Franz Liszt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Sergei Rachmaninoff Felix Mendelssohn Frédéric Chopin Antonín Dvořák
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was a Russian composer born on April 25, 1840, in Guberniya, Russia.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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is known for his compositions such as “Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake.”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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His music training first came from a | freed serf, or peasant, at age _.(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
5
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He studied in _ _ _ _where his father was appointed as the director.(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
St. Petersburg | Technological Institute
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Under Kundinger’s guidance, Tchaikovsky was opened up to _ _ and the influence of Mozart.
German music
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From 1862 to 1865, he studied harmony, counterpoint, and fugue composition under ,(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Nikolai | Zaremba
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as well as instrumentation and composition, under the founder of the St. Petersburg Conservatory,
Anton Rubinstein
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In 1891, he toured _ and conducted | performances of his own music.(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
America
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On May 5, he conducted a performance of his _ _ on the night of the opening of New York’s Carnegie Hall.(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Marche Solennelle
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Other compositions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pater Noster, Piano Concerto No. 1, and | Serenade for Strings.
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He died in 1893 due to _.
cholera
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was a French composer who was born on October 9, 1835, in Paris, France.
Camille Saint-Saëns
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He was raised by his widowed mother and her aunt—both introduced him to music at an early age by teaching him(Camille Saint-Saëns)
piano
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he was also a _ _ and displayed the ability of perfect pitch at the age of two.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
child prodigy
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He gave his first recital in ____ and studied organ and composition at the Conservatory of Paris.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
1846
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In ____, his Symphony No. 1 was | performed.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
1855
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In ___, he became the organist of the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, where he would remain to be so for 20 years.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
1857
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_ _, who would eventually become very good friends with Saint-Saens, described him as the finest organist in the world.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
Franz Liszt
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he became a piano teacher at the Niedermeyer School.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
Between 1861 and 1865,
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In ____, he helped establish the | National Society of Music.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
1871
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He also wrote his first symphonic poem | in the same year called(Camille Saint-Saëns)
Le Rouet d’Omphale (Omphale’s Spinning Wheel).
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turn out to be one of the most performed of his four symphonic poems.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
Le Rouet | d’Omphale and Danse Macabre
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was his most popular, but it was not originally well-received by the French public.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
His opera Samson et Dalila
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From ____ onwards, he went on extensive tours of Europe, the United States, South America, the Middle East, and East Asia.(Camille Saint-Saëns)
1878
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He died on(Camille Saint-Saëns)
December 16, 1921.

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