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• A piece of instrumental music associated with a story or other extramusical idea
• pg. 249

• An early 19th century genre resembling an opera overture- but without any following opera
• pg 269

• A symphony with a program, as by Berlioz
• pg 269

• FantasticSymphony:Episodes in the Life of an Artist (1830)
• Listen to it



• }A Ball (Allegro non troppo)
• }Scene in the Country (Adagio)
• }March to the Scaffold (Allegretto non troppo)
• }Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath(Larghetto—Allegro)
• “A young man of unhealthy sensibility
• and passionate imagination poisons himself with opium in a fit of lovesick
• despair. Too weak to kill him, the dose
• of the drug plunges him into a heavy sleep attended by the strangest visions,
• during which his sensations, emotions, and memories are transformed in his
• diseased mind into musical thoughts and images.
• Even the woman he loves becomes a melody to him, an idée
• fixe (anobsession), so to speak, that he finds and hears everywhere.”

a half singing, half reciting style of presenting words in opera, cantata, oratorio, etc., following speech accents and speech rhythms closely. Secco recitative is accompanied only by continuo; accompanied recitative is accompanied by orchestra

A vocal number for solo singer and orchestra, generally in an opera, cantata, or oratorio

Italian opera Emphasis on gorgeous melody Highly melodramatic recitative 1813-1901

• Wagner's name for his distinctive type of opera
• pg 285

• "Total work of art" Wagner term for his music dramas
• pg 285
• All elements should work together Poetry, music,staging, space

• 1813-1883 German music drama
• Leitmotiv
• Guiding or leading motive
• Musical idea associated with a person, thing, or idea
• Importance of orchestra

• "leading motive" in Vagner's operas
• pg 285

is a huge music drama in four parts, stretching over four separate nights of three to five hours each. This work, a quarter-century in the making, surly counts as a the supreme example of a Romantic tendency toward the grandiose. It involves gods and goddesses, giants and dwarfs, magical prophecies and transformations, a dragon, an invisibility cloak that reminds us of Harry Potter novelsin the midst of it all very human feelings and actions

• A piece of orchestral program music in one long movement
• pg 295

• 1840-1893) Overture-Fantasy, Romeo and Juliet (1869, revised 1880) Follows story (p. 297)
• was born in the Russian countryside mining inspector famous the nutcracker

• A 19th century movement promoting music built on national folk songs and dances or assoiated with national subjects
• pg 298

fascination with “the other”

Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) Hits both issues (exoticism and nationalism)

listen to it

Symphony No. 1 he expressed this ambivalence very differently. He eagerly embraced all the excesses of Romanticism that Brahms had shrunk from writing huge prograpm symphonies and symphonies with solo and choral singing. 1860-1911 born in Bohemia

• In the most advanced style
• pg 320

• A French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• pg 325

• Music composed with natural sounds recored electronically
• pg 373 and 379

1883- 1945 was an unspectacular individual whose life revolved around his strangely fragile artisitic accomplishment. reacted against the grandiose side of Romanticism, as represented by the works of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. vision of musical abstaction and his brilliant use of serialism made him a natural link between the first phase of modernism

• A type of contemporary music in which certain elements such as the order of the notes or their pitches, are not specified by the composer but are left to chance
• pg 375

1883-1965 interesting case of a composer who bridged both phases of modernism in the 20th century music started in Paris and Berlin developed an approach to rhythm and especially to sonority that surpassed anything the other early avant garde composers had attempted.Hyperprism is scored for seven wind and seven percussion instruments and Ionisation is percussion alone

1958 has electronic crash and random rustles different effects like groans rattles bell like noises and watery sounds they use musique concrete rhythms was highly irregular.