Praxis 5113 Romantic Music/ 20th Century Music

Praxis 5113 Romantic Music/ 20th
Century Music
Romantic Period - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 1820-1900

19th Century Opera Grand Performances - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔

Les Huguenots - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 1836

Faust - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Barber of Seville - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Gioacchino Rossini

Orpheus in the Underworld - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Jacques Offenbach

Die Fledermaus (The Bat) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Johann Strauss

Characteristics of 19th Century Opera - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -appealed to the middle class

-politicized

-play on morality

-lighter plot

-less spectacle

-Italian opera is the most popular

Beethoven's Influence - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ -discipline of classical style

-larger orchestras

-complexity

Brahm's style - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Classical tradition + elements of romanticism

1. classical forms and orchestra

2. entire works out of simple ideas

Important genres of the Romantic period - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ - Symphonies

- dances (waltz, polonaise)

- fantasy, nocturnes

- preludes, overtures

- rise of ART SONG

- counterpoint, fugues, canon studied in classrooms

- lyrical instead of ornamental