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Lieder ohne Worte
collection of character pieces by Felix Mendelssohn
Gradus ad Parnassum
Collection of etudes by Muzio Clementi
Carnaval
Collection of character pieces by Robert Schumann
Czerny
Student of Beethoven who compsed numerous etudes and method books for piano
Who created and first used the term recital?
Liszt
First composer to have an international reputation?
Stephen Foster
Name two genres for which Chopin is remembered
Etude, Nocturne
What is a transcription
When you take a grand piece, such as a symphony, and reduce it to be played by piano
Who is remembered for his transcriptions?
Liszt
What are themes of Romanticism?
Supernatural
Nationalism
Individualism
Subjective Beauty
Insatiable Longing
Schubert favored which form in setting his Lieder?
Stophic and modified strophic
Dichterliebe
Song cycle by Schumann
Robert Schumann wrote...
Essays and reviews about music
What was a major piano genre for Schubert?
Sonatas
Name the three categories of instrumental music in the Romantic period
Absolute
Character Piece
Program Music
Besides composing and performing, how else did Robert Schumann contribute to music?
Music critic
Name two themes of Romanticism
Nationalism
What is the difference between parlor songs and drawing-room ballads?
Parlor songs are American and drawing-room ballads
What is a song cycle?
A collection of songs that deal with or develop a story or plot.
About how many Lieder did Schubert write?
6
Eroica
Symphony No. 3
Beethoven
Heiligenstadt Testament
Letter expressing inner turmoil of the composer
Beethoven
Missa solemnis
Influenced by Handel, especially in the choruses
Beethoven
Fidelio
Rescue opera
Beethoven
Symphony No. 5
Symphony that symbolized victory over struggle
Beethoven
Symphony No. 6
Programmatic Symphony
Beethoven
Rasumovsky Quartets
Most important chamber works of middle period
Beethoven
Pathetique
Touching or Moving Piano sonata
C minor
Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte
The first song cycle
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
Final movement is titled Choral
Beethoven
What does not describe Beethovens first string quartets?
They break away completely from the models of Haydn and Mozart.
The slow movement of the Eroica Symphony...
Recalls funeral marches from revolutionary France.
What can be said of Beethovens Fidelio?
It glorifies the heroism of a woman
What belongs to Beethovens first creative period?
Pathetique Sonata
What is not a characteristic of Beethovens late period?
Imitation of Haydns more whimsical works
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Music History II Test 2
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Updated
2011-03-02T01:48:38Z
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