WorksheetsCH 16 Part 3 STUDY GUIDE
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Romantic treatment of tone color included
combining and blending different instrumental tone colors in innovative ways.
keeping the sections of the orchestra distinct and clear.
giving the brass section the melody most of the time.
using more flexible instrumentation in orchestral scores; parts could be played by a variety of instruments.
Compared to the Classical orchestra, the typical Romantic orchestra was
larger but had fewer different kinds of instruments.
larger and blended tone colors in new ways.
larger but had more instruments, such as the piano, in the continuo section.
smaller but had new stringed instruments.
Music without singing but derived from a poem, story, or other literary source is called
Gesamtkunstwerk.
a Romantic symphony.
thematic transformation.
program music.
Romantic treatment of form was
exact.
close to that of the Classical era.
free and spontaneous.
innovative but highly structured.
Miniatures were usually written for
the orchestra.
voice and piano, or piano alone.
string quartets.
small opera companies.
Miniatures were generally heard
as separate compositions.
as the third movement of a Romantic multimovement work.
as part of a sonata.
between opera acts or scenes.
Compared to earlier compositions, Romantic grandiose compositions had
more narrated sections.
more movements and increased length of the piece
small forms linked together.
more adherence to strict formal structures.
The technique of having the same theme fragment reappear with some sort of variation at loosely recurring intervals
thematic transformation.
theme and variations form.
program music.
rondo variation form.
Thematic unity occurs
within only one movement at a time.
when a composer uses the same themes in all the movements of a work.
mostly in theme and variations form.
only in the recapitulation section of sonata form.
The quality most prized by Romantic artists was
conformity to musical forms and genres set up in the Classical era.
dislike for the Middle Ages.
the integrity of the expression of individual feeling.
the ability to cross over into artistic areas other than one’s own.
