08/11 8. The Romantic Era Free Online FlashCards

What values define Romantic-era music?

Romantic music emphasizes individual emotion, imagination, dramatic contrast, nature, literature, national identity, and expressive sound.

What is rubato?

Rubato is expressive flexibility in tempo, allowing performers to vary timing for emotional effect.

What is chromaticism?

Chromaticism is the use of pitches outside the prevailing diatonic scale or key.

What is a symphonic poem?

A symphonic poem is a single-movement orchestral work based on a literary, historical, pictorial, or other extra-musical subject.

What is absolute music?

Absolute music is instrumental music understood primarily through its musical organization rather than a specific story or program.

What is an idée fixe?

An idée fixe is a recurring musical idea associated with a person, object, or concept, especially in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.

What is a leitmotif?

A leitmotif is a recurring musical idea associated with a dramatic character, object, place, emotion, or concept.

What is musical nationalism?

Nationalism uses musical materials or subjects associated with a particular country, region, language, history, or people.

Which song form repeats the same music for each stanza?

In strophic form, the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem.

Which composer is central to the Romantic art song?

Franz Schubert developed the Romantic art song through the interaction of melody, harmony, accompaniment, and poetic imagery.

Which composer transformed Romantic piano miniatures?

Frédéric Chopin transformed short piano genres through lyrical melody, ornamentation, flexible rhythm, chromatic harmony, and demanding technique.

Who composed Symphonie fantastique?

Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is a landmark program symphony with five movements and a recurring idée fixe.