What is Absolute Music? |
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Instrumental music having no intended association with a story, poem, idea, or scene; nonprogram music. |
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Who was a model for Romantic composers? |
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Beethoven |
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What is a short piece for piano called? |
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Character Piece |
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What is a great example for a character piece |
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Schumann Estrella |
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What is Chromatic Harmony |
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Tones outside major and minor scale. |
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What type of music was considered "distant lands"? |
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Exoticism |
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Who was Franz Liszt? |
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A touring piano virtuoso |
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What was expressed when romantic composers deliberately created music with a specific national identity, using the folk songs, dances, legends, and history of their homelands? |
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Nationalism |
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Who was Pagini? |
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a touring violin virtuoso |
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Who inspired Liszt to virtuosity? |
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Paganini |
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What was the favorite romantic age instrument? |
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Piano |
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Name 4 piano traits? |
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1. Frame2. Damper Pedal3. Hammers4. Range |
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The 19th Century was the great age of program music? T of F |
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True |
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What was program music? |
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Instrumental associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene. |
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Was a romantic orchestra usually larger? |
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Yes |
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The romantic orchestra did no vary in tone color? T of F |
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False |
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What is a slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo to intensify the expression of the music? |
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Rubato |
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Who lived and died in Vienna? |
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Franz Schubert |
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Franz Schubert composed 600+ lieder. T of F |
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True |
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Who was the founder and editor of New Journal of Music? |
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Robert Schumann |
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Who was the composer of Carnaval? |
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Robert Schumann |
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What piece of Robert Schumann's music had 21 brief pieces? |
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Carnaval |
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Estrella was evident in Schumann's Carnaval |
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k |
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What is a song cycle? |
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grouped in a set |
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What are some violin techniques in Mendelssohn Cadenza? |
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1. Appregios2. Harmonics3. Trills4. Double stops |
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What is a double stop? |
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Two or more notes at once |
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What is an exmple of a program symphony? |
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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique |
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When did the Stravinsky riot occur? |
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May 29th, 1913 |
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Where did the Stravnksy riot occur? |
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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris |
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