Romantic Period Final Review

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An art song is a musical composition for what performing forces?

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Voice and piano

Front

An orchestra toward the end of the romantic period might include close to ______ musicians.

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100

Front

While Wagner's Ring cycle features fantastical elements such as gods, giants, and magic, what is the opera really about?

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19th century society and culture

Front

What is the term for instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

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program music

Front

What romantic technique involves altering the character of a melody through changes in dynamics, orchestration, or rhythm?

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thematic transformation

Front

Which musical form, often used in art songs, repeats the same music for each stanza of the poem?

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Strophic form

Front

Wagner's preeminence was such that an opera house of his own design, solely for performances of his music dramas, was built where?

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Bayreuth Festspielhaus Beyreuth, Germany

Front

The German composers of art songs favored, among others, the lyric poetry of which writer?

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Front

Schubert's songs number more than ______. (give the highest number possible without going over)

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600

Front

Of all the inspirations for romantic art, none was more important than what subject?

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Nature