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Besides home music making, what other sector of musical performance saw phenomenal growth during the Romantic period?
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Public concerts
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In addition to professional orchestras and virtuoso's, what other kinds of institutions also arose with missions to provide public performances of art music?
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Amateur Orchestras, Choral Societies and entrepreneurs
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What type/ genre of art music also moved at this time from being " privately" performed to "public" performance?
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Chamber music
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Over what initial period did "classical" or regularly repeating repertoires begin to form, and what genre of music and what composers lead the way?
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1780-1870; starting with oratorios of Handel and Haydn; Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn
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The text points out that all of this came with and helped provide a new historical awareness, resulting in a rich tension between what two things?
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Romantic content and classic genres and forms
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How did orchestras grow in the number of expected players over the nineteenth centuries?
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40-90
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When did the tuba join the brass section?
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1830's
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In what year did Louis Spohr introduce the concept of conducting with a baton?
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1820
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What kinds of music typically comprised a London Philharmonic program before 1850?
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Symphony, aria or choral composition, a concerto or chamber work, another vocal work and a closing symphony
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What percentage of music programmed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was from living composers in the 1780's, 1820 and 1870?
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1780: 85%1820:75%1870:25%
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The new seriousness of the repertoire was matched by a new seriousness in___________.
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Concert behavior
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The text states that the history of orchestral music in the nineteenth century can be seen as a series or varied responses to the example of what composer?
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Beethoven
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For the mature Schubert and his fellow romantics, what was more important in music?
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Melodies
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Who wrote the nineteenth century "bible" on orchestration?
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Hector Berlioz
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Because his music was too radical to win steady support, to what did Berlioz ( and Schumann) turn to as their chief profession?
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Music criticism
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