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Music 101: Romantic Terms
Study list for BYU'S Independent study class.
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Undergraduate 1
08/20/2010

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Schubert
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Austrian composer.Wrote Erlkonig.
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Schumann
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German Composer who wrote Im Wunderschonen Monet Mai and Die Alten bosen and the Carnaval pieces.
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Chopin
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Polish composer who wrote Nocturne in F sharp
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Berlioz
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French composer best known for his Fantastic Symphony
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Verdi
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Italian composer of operas, wrote Aida.
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Wagner
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German composer who wrote The Valkyrie.
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Tchaikovsky
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Russian composer who wrote Romeo and Juliet
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Brahms
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German composer who wrote Violin Concerto in D
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Mahler
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Austrian composer who wrote Symphony 1: Funeral March
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Lied
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German term for art song, poems set to music.
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song cycle
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a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity.
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character piece
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piano music based on a single idea or program (for example Chopin's nocturnes)
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concert overture
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the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choral or, occasionally, instrumental composition.
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program symphony
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music of a narrative or descriptive kind(for example, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique).
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symphonic poem
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a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section (a movement) in which the content of a poem, novel, or painting is evoked. First coined by Liszt for his works.
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through-composed song
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is relatively continuous, non-sectional, and/or non-repetitive. A song is said to be through-composed if it has different music for each stanza of the lyrics.
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strophic song
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verse-repeating or chorus form. for example: Hymns
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romantic
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a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe
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romantic individualism
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romantic revolt
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romantic macabre
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romantic nostalgia
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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the concert hall
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program music
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cyclic form
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nocturne
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etude
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mazurka
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polonaise
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idée fixe
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Dies Irae
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bel canto
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"Beautiful Singing", opera term
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leitmotif
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referring to a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea.
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Bayreuth
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A city in Germany where Wagner's operas are performed
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risorgimento
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was the political and social movement that united Italy
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expansion of symphonic ensemble (especially in winds, brass, and percussion)
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fondness for exotic
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unusual instrumental colors
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exaggerated dynamic contrasts
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