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Music 202 People to know 2nd half
2nd Half of Important People
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Music
Undergraduate 2
02/16/2012

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Term
Haydn - from, genre, type
Definition
German, Classical, Musician
Term
oratorio
Definition
Handel's Messiah is an example of an
Term
concertino
Definition
Small group of soloists in a concerto grosso
Term
Pope
Definition
Author: "Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?"
Term
rampant commercialism
Definition
Which of the following was one of the specific targets of Pope's criticisms?
Term
Indifference
Definition
What key word best describes the prevailing attitude of the Rococo?
Term
feminine
Definition
Compared to the Baroque period in visual art, the Rococo was more ________?
Term
anger and pessimism
Definition
What phrase best describes Jonathan Swift's attitude toward humanity?
Term
chillingly rational
Definition
Swift's "A Modest Proposal" would most accurately be described as
Term
Ancient Greek music
Definition
Which of the following had the least influence on 18th-century European neoclassicism?
Term
It was an attempt to recreate the kind of encyclopedia that flourished in the Renaissance
Definition
Which of the following statements about the Encyclopedie is NOT true?
Term
Encyclopedie challenged who
Definition
the traditional authority of the Church and the monarchy.
Term
Encyclopedie took how long
Definition
longer than 15 years to complete
Term
Encyclopedie contained what
Definition
articles written by Rousseau and Voltaire
Term
an amateur musician
Definition
In addition to being an important philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also ________.
Term
Christians
Definition
Who were the principle targets of Voltaire's famous catchphrase, "Ecrasez l'infame!"
Term
Sturm und Drang
Definition
A symphony by Mozart in a minor key would most likely have been influenced by which literary style?
Term
Handel
Definition
Which of the following composers had the greatest direct influence on Haydn's oratorios?
Term
Fascination with Rococo sentiment
Definition
Which of the following features is NOT common in visual art of the Romantic era?
Term
Goya
Definition
Of the following artists, who was the most overtly political and propagandistic in their art?
Term
everyday and commonplace subjects
Definition
The French Realist movement in art of the middle of the 19th century was, by definition, concerned mostly with ________.
Term
They all died young
Definition
What biographical detail is common to Shelley, Keats, and Lord Byron?
Term
Wordsworth
Definition
Judging from the style and subject matter of the following excerpt, who is the author of this poem?

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Term
Haydn - works
Definition
The Creation
Term
Haydn - identifiers
Definition
German oratorio, symphonies
Term
Goya - from, genre, type
Definition
Spanish, Romantic, Artist
Term
Goya - works
Definition
shooting, snobby aristocrats, 'Saturn Devouring one of his sons'
Term
Goya - identifiers
Definition
politically charged pieces, chiaroscuro, very romantic in nature
Term
Girodet-Trioson - from, genre, type
Definition
French, Romantic, Artist
Term
Girodet-Trioson - works
Definition
Burial of Atala
Term
Girodet-Trioson - identifiers
Definition
romantic (emotional) paintings often with classical figures, soft/rococo lighting
Term
Girodet-Trioson - why important
Definition
19th Century ideal of “dying in love”
Term
Gericault - from, genre, type
Definition
French, Romantic, Artist
Term
Gericault - features
Definition
monochromatic
Term
Gericault - works
Definition
Raft of the Medusa
Term
Gericault - identifiers
Definition
likes diagonal lines
Term
Delacroix - from, genre, type
Definition
French, romantic, artist
Term
Delacroix - features
Definition
color for emotion
Term
Delacroix - works
Definition
"Massacre at Chios”
“Death of Sardinapaulus”
Term
Delacroix - identifiers
Definition
Horses, uses lots of color,
Term
Delacroix - why important
Definition
French politics
Term
Gericault - why important
Definition
french politics
Term
Ingres - from, genre, type
Definition
french, romantic, artist
Term
Ingres - works
Definition
“Jupiter & Thetis”
“Countess d’Hausonville”
Term
Ingres - identifiers
Definition
portraits, uses lines, uses great detail in clothing, eyes are prominent feature
interest in one plane: low-light background
Term
Daumier - from, genre, type
Definition
french, romantic, artist
Term
Daumier - works
Definition
“The Legislative Belly”
Term
Daumier - identifiers
Definition
like caricatures, blurry, look like sketches
Term
Courbet - from, genre, type
Definition
french, romantic, artist
Term
Courbet - works
Definition
The artist's studio
Term
Garnier - from, type
Definition
french, architect
Term
Garnier - works
Definition
Paris Opera House
Term
Garnier - identifiers
Definition
gaudy, over the top
Term
Garnier - why important
Definition
designed to bring in money
Term
Friedrich - from, genre, type
Definition
German, Romantic, Artist
Term
Friedrich - works
Definition
Abbey in an Oak Forest
Term
Friedrich - identifiers
Definition
looks like death, monastery monk idea in work, emptiness, fog, “freaky Friedrich”
Term
Constable - from, genre, type
Definition
English, Romantic, Artist
Term
Constable - works
Definition
Hay Wain
Term
Constable - identifiers
Definition
clouds, focused on the sky, low horizon "Constable Clouds"
Term
Turner - from, genre, type
Definition
English, Romantic, Artist
Term
Turner - works
Definition
slave ship
Term
Turner - identifiers
Definition
rich vibrant colors, looks beautiful but some have hidden meanings, “blurry” looking, not as refined
Term
Blake - from, genre, type
Definition
English, Romantic, Writer/Artist
Term
Blake - works
Definition
Jerusalem, Ancient of Days
Term
Blake - identifiers
Definition
communication with divine
Term
Wordsworth - from, genre, type
Definition
english, romantic, poet
Term
Wordsworth - features
Definition
nature is good, wrote about emotional events looking back in a tranquil way
Term
Wordsworth - works
Definition
Tintern Abbey
Term
Wordsworth - identifiers
Definition
“Lake Poet”, wrote about nature, a “European Transcedentalist”
Term
Wordsworth - why important
Definition
trailing clouds of glory
Term
Shelley - from, genre, type
Definition
English, Romantic, Poet
Term
Shelley - features
Definition
eternal love
Term
Shelley - works
Definition
Ozymandius, To----
Term
Shelley - identifiers
Definition
Some writing fragment, exotic
Term
Keats - from, genre, type
Definition
English, Romantic, Poet
Term
Keats - works
Definition
Ode to a Nightengale
Term
Keats - identifiers
Definition
died very young
Term
Tolstoy - from, type
Definition
Russia, Writer
Term
Tolstoy - features
Definition
Novels, short stories, playwright, essays,
Spirit > church
Term
Tolstoy - works
Definition
Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Kingdom of God is Within You,
3 hermits
Term
Tolstoy - identifiers
Definition
Tolstoy
Russia
Writer
Novels, short stories, playwright, essays,
Spirit > church
Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Kingdom of God is Within You,
3 hermits
known for complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views
Term
Tolstoy - why important
Definition
Anna Karenina and
War and Peace praised for
being the best novels ever written
Term
Dickens - from, type
Definition
England, Writer
Term
Dickens - works
Definition
Oliver Twist
Term
Dickens - identifiers
Definition
Wrote in a witty way, easy to read.., dialect
Term
Cole - from, genre, type
Definition
American, American romantic, Artist
Term
Cole - identifiers
Definition
landscape, people unimportant but may be involved, part of the Hudson River school
Term
Heade - from, genre, type
Definition
American, American Romantic, Artist
Term
Heade - identifiers
Definition
Landscape, a “luminist”
Term
Homer - from, genre, type
Definition
American, American Romantic, Artist
Term
Homer - identifiers
Definition
loved to paint the sea
Term
Eakins - from, genre, type
Definition
American, American Romantic, Artist
Term
Eakins - works
Definition
The Gross Clinic
Term
Eakins - identifiers
Definition
portrayed human anatomy
Term
Whistler - from, genre, type
Definition
American, Amoerican Romantic, Artist
Term
Whistler - identifiers
Definition
named pieces after song (nocturne etc), subject is often hard to find, the caption is essential
Term
Poe - from, poet
Definition
American, Poet
Term
Poe - works
Definition
The Raven, Tell Tale Heart
Term
Poe - identifiers
Definition
Gothic horror, poetry
Term
Whitman - from, genre, type
Definition
American, Romantic, Poet
Term
Whitman - features
Definition
civil war, transcendentalist
Term
Whitman - works
Definition
Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, Ashes of Soldiers
Term
Whitman - identifiers
Definition
civil war
Term
Dickinson - from, genre, type
Definition
American, Romantic, Poet
Term
Dickinson - features
Definition
Death, Love and Nature
Term
Dickinson - identifiers
Definition
lots of strange punctuation - ballad, common meter
Term
Beethoven - from, genre, type
Definition
German, Classical, Romantic, Composer
Term
Beethoven - works
Definition
Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy (Ninth Symphony)
Symphony No. 5
Term
Beethoven - identifiers
Definition
Giant "Sturm und Drang", lots of emotion! form not clear
Term
Beethoven - why important
Definition
Went outside of the classical
outlining, and experimented with
new form
First to explore the idea
that music could have meaning
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