The Romantic Period

Question 1

What are some characteristics of the Romantic Period?

Answer 1

Tone color, tone poems, nationalism, exoticism, key changes, extreme dynamics such as PPPP or FFFF, timbre, and mature and supernatural themes.

Question 2

What is timbre?

Answer 2

Tone color or a specific sound of the piece it’s used in.

Question 3

What was the premiss of most Romantic pieces?

Answer 3

Shakespeare plays, personal lives, supernatural, and mature themes.

Question 4

What is nationalism?

Answer 4

Adding your OWN cultures ideas into musical pieces.

Question 5

What is exoticism?

Answer 5

Adding OTHER cultures music ideas into your piece, often times in a racist or unknowing manner.

Question 6

What is program music?

Answer 6

Music with a specific music behind it, there’s no chance for listeners interpretation of it. Sometimes comes with a physical program to it.

Question 7

What is absolute music?

Answer 7

Music up for interpretation, no program.

Question 8

What was the orchestra size in the romantic period?

Answer 8

Up to 100 players. Brass, wood winds, and percussion become more prominent and important than the strings section.

Question 9

What was new about pianos in the romantic period?

Answer 9

They were made out of cast iron and have a damper pedal, the hammers were also covered in felt . The range was extended as well.

Question 10

What was added to orchestra in the romantic period?

Answer 10

Triangles, harps, and cymbals.

Question 11

What is rebate?

Answer 11

A variation of tempo.

Question 12

What was the form like in the romantic period?

Answer 12

Forty five minute symphonies and lots of vocal music.

Question 13

What is strophic form?

Answer 13

The same line of music for each verse.

Question 14

What does through composed mean?

Answer 14

A different line of music for each verse.

Question 15

What is modified strophic?

Answer 15

ABA verse formatting.

Question 16

What was connected in the Romantic Period?

Answer 16

Poetry and art.

Question 17

Who wrote Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey)?

Answer 17

Franz Schubert.

Question 18

What is a song cycle?

Answer 18

Many songs connected through one main idea.

Question 19

What are some facts about Franz Schubert?

Answer 19

He was a nervous recluse, aspired to be the next Beethoven, tried the a school teacher but gave up, he lead a gypsy life style and wrote in a cafe. He also made “Schubertiades”, which were parties to celebrate his music.

Question 20

Who wrote “The Great Symphony” and “The Unfinished Symphony”?

Answer 20

Franz Schubert

Question 21

Who wrote Erlkönig (Erl King)?

Answer 21

Franz Schubert

Question 22

Who wrote Carnaval?

Answer 22

Robert Schumann

Question 23

What are the two movements of Carnaval?

Answer 23

Estrella and Reconnaissance (Reunion)

Question 24

What are some facts about Robert Schumann?

Answer 24

He married his piano student and had seven kids with her (Clara Schumann). Screwed up his hand and had to quit playing piano.

Question 25

Who wrote "If you Love for Beauty"?

Answer 25

Clara Schumann

Question 26

Who wrote Polonaise in Ab Major?

Answer 26

Fredric Chopin

Question 27

Who wrote Mazurka?

Answer 27

Chopin

Question 28

Who wrote Nocturne in Eb Minor?

Answer 28

Chopin

Question 29

Who wrote Étude in C Minor?

Answer 29

Chopin

Question 30

What are some facts about Fredric Chopin?

Answer 30

Only wrote for one instrument, Polish, pianist, frail.

Question 31

Who wrote Transcendental Étude No. 4?

Answer 31

Franz Liszt

Question 32

What are some facts about Liszt?

Answer 32

Super human playing skills, practiced obsessively for three years, gave out free piano lessons, three kids from an affair, became an abbey.

Question 33

What is a tone poem?

Answer 33

Symphonic poem, one movement orchestral composition inspired by other forms of art.

Question 34

Who wrote Violin Concerto?

Answer 34

Felix Mendelssohn

Question 35

Who wrote The Hebrides Overture?

Answer 35

Felix Mendelssohn

Question 36

What are some facts about Mendelssohn?

Answer 36

More classical than romantic style, wealthy Jewish family but converted Protistan, composer at age 13, conductor by 26, average guy, worked himself to death at 38.

Question 37

What is program music?

Answer 37

Music with a specific meaning as decided by the composer.

Question 38

What is absolute music?

Answer 38

The meaning of the music is up to interpretation for the audience.

Question 39

Who wrote Don Quixote?

Answer 39

Richard Strauss

Question 40

What are some facts about Strauss?

Answer 40

He's well known for unique orchestral colors, tone poems, and large works.

Question 41

Who wrote Flight of the Valkyries?

Answer 41

Richard Wagner

Question 42

What are some facts about Wagner?

Answer 42

Rampant anti-semitism, arrogant, German and Norse, always in debt, got kicked out of all German speaking countries.

Question 43

Who wrote Symphony No. 3?

Answer 43

Johannes Brahms

Question 44

What are some facts about Brahms?

Answer 44

German, bass player cafe dad, classical writer, life long feud with Liszt.

Question 45

Who wrote Kindertotenlieder?

Answer 45

Gustav Mahler

Question 46

Who wrote Symphony No. 5?

Answer 46

Brahms

Question 47

What are some facts about Brahms?

Answer 47

Conductor, had to change his religion due to anti-semitism, pieces weren't very popular when first released.

Question 48

What is nationalism?

Answer 48

Taking musical ideas and expressions from ones own country and adding them into their compositions.

Question 49

What is exoticism?

Answer 49

Taking musical ideas and expressions from another country and adding them into their composition. Very racist.

Question 50

Who were the members of The Russian Five?

Answer 50

Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakierev, Cui, and Borodin.

Question 51

Who wrote The Great Gate of Kiev?

Answer 51

The Russian 5

Question 52

Who wrote Pictures at an Exhibition?

Answer 52

The Russian 5

Question 53

What are some facts about Grieg?

Answer 53

He spoke Danish, studied under Mendelssohn and Schumann, very poor health, but also very friendly, marries first cousin, conductor.

Question 54

Who wrote In the Hall of the Mountain King?

Answer 54

Edvard Grieg

Question 55

What are some facts about Smetana?

Answer 55

From Bohemia, lost his hearing but continued to compose, wrote a lot of folk tunes and legends.

Question 56

Who wrote Moveast ("My Country")?

Answer 56

Bedrich Smetana

Question 57

Who wrote the Moldau?

Answer 57

Czech Nation Anthem, Bedrich Smetana.

Question 58

Who wrote Symphony No. 9?

Answer 58

Antonin Divorak

Question 59

What are some facts about Divorak?

Answer 59

Another Czech composer, played in Smetana's orchestra, discovered by Brahms, encourage nationalism, especially for Native American music.

Question 60

Who wrote the Romeo and Juliet Overture?

Answer 60

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Question 61

What are some facts about Tchaikovsky?

Answer 61

Taught himself music theory, gay composer, funded by rich widow, died six days after his American premiere of Symphony No. 6, wrote for lots of ballets.

Question 62

What is a lied?

Answer 62

A song with three different possible forms.

Question 63

What is strophic form?

Answer 63

AB

Question 64

What is Through Composed?

Answer 64

Different for each song

Question 65

What is modified strophic?

Answer 65

ABA

Question 66

What is an art song?

Answer 66

When the vocal and piano parts are both equal.

Question 67

What is a lieder?

Answer 67

Plural form of lied

Question 68

What is a song cycle?

Answer 68

A collection of lieder.

Question 69

Who were the programmists?

Answer 69

Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler.

Question 70

Who were the absolutists?

Answer 70

Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Schumann.

Question 71

Who were nationalists?

Answer 71

Smetana, Divorak, Mussorgsky, Grieg, The Russian 5.