The concerto through time: Romantic

Question 1

True or false? In the romantic period, chromatic chords and dissonance were used.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Did modulations only go to related keys in the Romantic Period?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

True or false? Melodies were often shorter in the romantic period.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or false? The texture was often more complex in the Romanic Period.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What two sections of the orchestra became much more prominent and often had lyrical solo lines?

Answer 5

The brass and the woodwind.

Question 6

True or ffalse? Unlike in the Baroque period, the classical and romantic period concertos required conductors.

Answer 6

False, the classical period often still had concertos that still didn’t require a conductor. In the romantic period however, a conductor was needed as the rhythms and textures were much more complex

Question 7

What is rubato?

Answer 7

The slowing down or speeding up of the tempo to be more relaxed and allow greater expression

Question 8

What were the new instruments added in the romantic period?

Answer 8

The piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet and the contrabassoon

Question 9

True or false? Unlike in the classical period, cadenzas in the romantic period were often improvised.

Answer 9

False - cadenzas in the romantic period were often written by the composer or the performer, whilst the ones in the classical period were often improvised

Question 10

Name a famous composer from the romantic period

Answer 10

Examples include:

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Franz Liszt
Frédéric Chopin