Music Chp 16-25

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What is a salon?

Informal concerts on homes where piano was now a common instrument
The Art song

Musical setting of a poem for solo voices and piano accompaniment
Describe the strophic form

All stropes (verses) sung to the same music
Describe the thorough composed form

All verses sung to new music
Describe the modified strophic form

Various repeated melodies with melodies for verses
Where was Schubert born and died

Vienna
Who did Schubert receive violin and piano lessons from?

His father and brother
What was Schubert's job title?

School orchestr violinist, conductor
In what year did Schubert composed his first symphony?

1813
What did Schubert go to school to train to be?

A primary school teacher
What was Schubert's dying wish

To be buried next to Beethoven
What year was Schubert born and died

1797-1828
About how many works did Schubert compose between 1811 and 1828

One thousand
How many symphonies did Schubert compose

9
What was Schubert best remembered for

Writing 600 + lieder
What was Robert and Clara Schumann

German
What was Robert Schumann best known for

His lieders and song cycles
How many children did the Schumanns have

8
At what age did Robert Schumann die

46
What condition did Robert Schumann have

Depression that led him to be placed in an asylum
One of the first women to tour internationally

Clara Schumann
How many keys are in todays piano

88
What piano was developed about 1840

Upright
Two most prominent romantic era pianist and composer

Chopin and Liszt
Where was Chopin born

Warsaw, Poland
Where was Liszt born

Hungary
Liszt and Chopin's personality was the sam T or F

False They were polar opposites
He loved playing to large audiences and dramatized his playing

Liszt
Early Romantic program music composer

Hector Berlioz
Where did Berlioz grow up

In a small French town
Where did Berlioz father send him to school

Medical school in Paris
What award did Berlioz win?

Prix de Rome
What composer wrote the "Symphonie fantastique"

Berlioz
How many movements did the Symphonie fantastique program symphony have

5
What was the Symphonie fantastique based on

Personal experience of meeting and falling in love with Harriet Smithson
What is the Symphonie fantastique about

A young musician that poisons himself with opium in lovesick despair
Thematic transformation

Changing the idee fixe in each movement
What composer used ide fixe in each movement

Berlioz
Nationalism

Musical expression intended to emphsize character and interest of a nation
First Russian composer to gain international reputation

Peter Tchaikovsky
What two styles of music did Tchaikovsky blend together

Western European and Russian music
What was one of Tchaikovsky popular concert overtures

Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky acquired a benefactress named

Nadezhda von Meck
What did Von Meck do for Tchaikovsky

Commissioned several works and paid him a fixed annuity
How long was the relationship between Von Meck and Tchaikovsky

13
Why did Tchaikovsky get married

Because she threatened to kill herself
Who did Tchaikovsky marry?

Antonia Milyukova
Why did Tchaikovsky's marriage fail

He was gay
During what time was the height of Tchaikovsky career

1880's With symphonies and ballets performed across Europe
Tchaikovsky died 9 days after what

conducting premiere of sixth symphony
What piece broke classical traditions

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Symphony no 9 from the new world was composed what year

1893
Elements of what works did Symphony No. 9 have

African American and Native American
Symphony no 9 was compared to the rhythmic motive of what piece

Beethoven's 5th symphony

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