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Music History Chapter 19
from Ideas and Styles in the Western Tradition
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Undergraduate 3
02/17/2013

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An important model for the success of a heroic personality in political life at the turn of the nineteenth century was...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Beethoven's middle period is sometimes known as his...
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Heroic Period
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The Heiligenstadt Testament was...
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Beethoven's reflection on his deafness and his vocation
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The poet who wrote the text Beethoven used in his Ninth Symphony was...
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Friedrich Schiller
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Two important examples of the _________________________ are An die ferne Geliebte and Die schöne Müllerin.
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Song cycle
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_________ combined the folk ideal in song with personal interpretation of the song text
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Franz Schubert
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_________________________ was idealized by early Romantic opera librettists because he provided a model of a great artist who succeeded despite his disregard for standard rules of artistic form
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William Shakespeare
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Italian opera composers in the early nineteenth century often used the process of _________________________ to recycle their music in order to keep up with the demand for new works.
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Parody
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The rescue opera was created in _________________________ around 1800.
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France
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_________________________ never achieved much public acclaim and relied for his daily living on the generosity of his friends.
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Schubert
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Romanticism
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A style that is romance-like and novelistic, concentrating on emotional conflict and climax.
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Who claimed that Beethoven's music aroused "that infinite yearning that is the essence of romanticism"?
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E.T.A. Hoffman
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Rescue opera
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Popular in post-revolutionary France; focused on tyranny and freedom, personal strength, and heroism.
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Fidelio
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Beethoven's only opera. Was an example of a "rescue opera."
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Character variations
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Variations which do not merely decorate the theme but seem to take on different expressive content or personalities.
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Second Berlin School
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Produced some of the most successful composers of lieder. Based style on simplicity and the intention to let poetry speak clearly for itself. Also used folk tunes.
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Karl Friedrich Zelter
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Composer and music director; leader of the second Berlin School
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Ballad
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Alternative to the lied. Text was narrative and dramatic, and poetic rhythm was generally irregular. Typically through-composed.
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Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg
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Leading composer of the ballad genre.
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