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beethoven between classicism and romanticisim
beethovens roots were firmily classical and he remained committed to the principles of the classical style but his music could be violent, solemn, severe, and gentle which emerged in response to romantic stirrings.
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what was bonaparte renamed and why?
Erocia(Heroic) because napoleon declared himself emperor of france and that upset beethoven
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beethovens symphonic genre
around 1800 to 1810 many of beethoven piano sonatas and string quartets sound like symphonies
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beethoven's humor
broad, brusque, jocular, and violent
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motivic consistency of beethoven
people marveled at the organic quality of such music like the first movement of the 5th symphony it seemed to grow like a plant
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beethoven's pyschological progression
the four movements of the fifth symphony trace coherent and dramatic pyschological progression in several stages like fate knocks at the door and then to the fate being nullified
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scherzo
joke in italian. it is a fast rushing movement in triple meter
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beethoven's fifth symphony start and end
starts with a struggle and slowly ends with a triumph
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first movement of symphony No. 5
is in sonata form
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term romantic
was adopted by the romantics themselves. it first took hold in literature and then in 1820 music
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the cult of individual feeling
romantic era is the first time that individual feeling is became the highest good
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the artist and the public
the insitutionalization of concert life also had its negitive aspect in that audiences gradually became more conservative in their musical tastes.
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Rubato
in a musical performance he rhythm is handled flexibly
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expansion of tone color
mix of new combinations of instruments= multicolored shades of blended orchestral sound
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along with the new combinations of instruments what was also introduced
conductors came to the floor. before they were conducted by the first violinist
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program music
instrumental music written in association with a poem, story, or literary source or even a highly suggestive word or two
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minatures
piece of music lasting only a few minutes or even less. mostly songs and short piano pieces designed to convey a pointed emotion, momentary and undeveloped
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erlkonig
though composed= music changes as words change
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strophic
a song that repeats the same music over and over for all stanzas
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song cycle
a group of songs associated by a common poetic theme or an actual story
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robert schumann
dichterliebe (a poets love)
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carnaval by robert schumann
set of 20 short character pieces that really are characters (musical portraits of masked guests at a mardi gras ball
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eusebius
schumann's pen name for his tender dreamy self and this little piece presents him at his most introspective
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frederic chopin
nocturne= night piece
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types of pieces that chopin wrote
noctunes, polonaises, mazurkas,etudes
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franz liszt
flashy dashing looks and personality and womanizer
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concert overature
an early 19th century genre resembling an opera overature but without any following opera
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program symphony
- entire symphonies with programs spelled out movement by movement.
- example= hector berlioz fanstatic symphony
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idee fixe
- term assocaited with berlioz fanstatic symphony
- recurring melody
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La donna e mobile
aria in rigoletto that perfectly captures the compelling energy of the Duke
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wagner's name for his operas
music drama
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gesamtkunstwerk
philosphical term meaning total work of art
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letimotive
leading motive
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concept shown in nibelungs ring
power and greed corrupts
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Richard Wagner
righn of nibelungs= got it from german and north legends
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late romantic opera
- music drama in wagners sense gave way to new realistic tendencies
- operas=realism
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giacoma puccini
madame butterfly
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