Test 7 Study Guide- Romantic Era
I.
COMPOSERS:
1. Symphonies, short piano pieces, and art songs. Performed in intimate
settings.
2. Symphonies and art songs. Wrote music criticism,the ultimate
romanticist.
3. Compositions for piano and piano with violin. Primarily a teacher and
performer.
4. Polish/French: nothing but piano compositions of all kinds.
5. Piano transcriptions, piano music, originated the symphonic (tone)
poem
form. Virtuoso pianist and conductor.
6. Revival of Bach's music, symphonies, concerto, incidental music.
7. French: Requiem and program symphony.
8. Russian: Nationalist, one of the Russian 5, opera, symphonic poems,
piano cycle
9. Russian: symphonies, operas, ballets, and concert overtures.
10. Most important composer of Czech national music; symphonic poem
cycle.
11. Czech national music; Iowa connection, symphonies and string
quartets.
12. Friend of the Schumann's; masterpieces in everything but opera.
13. Most important Italian opera composer. National political and musical
hero.
14. Successor to Verdi as the most important Italian opera
composer. Fosuced on beautiful singing and realistic subjects.
15. German: called his operas music dramas and used leit motivs.
16. Symphonies, chamber music, and art songs. Viennese, but
international conductor.
II.
TERMS
1. A political movement during the romantic period which encouraged composers
to write music about their native countries and to use sounds which came
from those countries.
2. Compositions which require composers to explain the specific concepts the
listeners
are to think about while listening to them.
3. A term used by a composer to give the performer the freedom to go faster or
slower to make the music more expressive.
4. A composition for singer and piano; its text is usually about love.
5. A group of art songs.
6. A composition for piano and four string instruments.
7. "A short , lyrical piece for piano or solo instrument with piano accompaniment."
(The one for which you are responsible is written for piano and violin.)
8. A night piece, "a slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano."
9. A short piano piece by Chopin originally written to be a study piece for his
students.
10. A piano composition based on a dance which was done by Polish nobility.
11. Non-program music- which is written for its own sake; it does not try to make the
listener think of
specific extra-musical concepts
12. A multi-movement composition in which the movements combine to represent
characters, situations, or moods.
13. A one-movement composition for orchestra, usually in sonata form; the Romeo
and
Juliet Overture-Fantasy is an example of this type of program music.
14. A one-movement composition for orchestra depicting a literary or pictorial idea;
Die Moldau is an example of this type of program music.
15. Program music which is originally written to be a part of the performance of a
play.
16. The term which refers to the music which represents the woman in Berlioz'
"Symphonie Fantastique."
17. The label for musical ideas which represent characters, moods, or situations in
music
dramas.