FREE MUSIC AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ROMANTIC ERA

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FREE MUSIC AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ROMANTIC ERA

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-Guarantee passing score -53 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Who carried the Italian opera seria and opera buffa traditions through the 19th century creating a national style that was distinctly Italian?

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Giuseppe Verdi Question 2: What is a group of lieder unified by some narrative thread or descriptive or expressive theme called?

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A song cycle Question 3: What three genres continued into the 19th century upholding their forms but with a Romantic tone?

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Symphonies, concertos, and chamber music Question 4: What is the song type where the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but has new or significantly varied music when the text requires?

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modified strophic form

Question 5: Colorful harmony, expanded orchestration, expanded ensembles including many new instruments, expressive-lyrical melodies, and expanded proportions of the established form.

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the "Romantic tone" Question 6: What three types of music were most popular in 19th century America?

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Devotional, parlor music, and imported music from Europe Question 7: Salon performances became popular in the Romantic Era, who performed them?

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Amateurs and professionals Question 8: Who expanded the form of the Classical Symphony and best incorporated Romanticism with in the frame work of absolute music?

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Johannes Brahms Question 9: What song type proceeds from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections?

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through-composed

Question 10: In the Romantic Concerto, when do the cadenzas often occur?

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during the development sections

Question 11: A symphonic poem is also called a what?

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a tone poem

Question 12: The short lyric piano pieces were often in what form?

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improvisatory, or purely instrumental form of dance forms

Question 13: Why did the development of the middle class impact the popularity of the Musicians' music?

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They no longer relied on aristocratic patronage

Question 14: What is a German-texted solo vocal song called?

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Lied Question 15: What dance company in Paris opened up a new chapter in Europe cultural life bringing the Russian Ballade tradition into favor?

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Ballet Russes dance company Question 16: What is the intermediate song type between strophic and through-composed called?

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modified strophic form Question 17: What incorporates all elements of opera and theatre and were continuous in form, using leitmotifs for unification?

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music drams Question 18: The large-scale multi-movement program music type puts a story to music utilizing what two things as a unifying thread throughout the movements?

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idee fixe (fixed idea) and thematic development Question 19: The romantic era marked when performing musicians became ______ thanks to the development of the middle class.

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stars

Question 20: Wagner's music dramas had what quality to their form?

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continuous

Question 21: What transformed into an independent art form in the 19th century?

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ballades Question 22: What program music is usually an overture performed between acts and scenes?

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incidental music

Question 23: What did novels begin to explore in the Romantic Era?

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deep human conflicts and exotic settings and subjects

Question 24: What were Wagner's massive productions called?

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music dramas

Question 25: What song type repeats the same melody every stanza of the poem?

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strophic form

Question 26: What was the equivalent to the Art Song?

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Short lyric piano pieces

Question 27: What fostered the rise of a middle class or Bourgeois society?

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the French Revolution