Chapter 16: Music After Beethoven: Romanticism

Baroque performers were most likely to improvise ______, but Romantic composers were more likely to improvise _______.

Baroque performers were most likely to improvise melodically, but Romantic composers were more likely to improvise rhythmically.

Music that freely chooses from all twelve possible notes in the octave is referred to as what?

chromatic

Hector Berlioz wrote treatises on which of the following?

Topic that Berlioz wrote about -orchestration -conducting Not a topic that Berlioz wrote about -improvisation -using the rubato technique

Which of the following excerpts are from the Romantic era and which are not? Pay special attention to the instrumentation.

Romantic-era excerpt 27 sec 28 sec Excerpt from another era 19 sec 15 sec

What is orchestration?

The use and combination of instruments in an orchestra to produce specific tone colors.

What was the highest artistic goal for Romantics?

emotional expression

Which of the following is the most recognizable feature of Romantic music?

melodic style

The Romantic period refers to the music of which century?

nineteenth

The term used to refer to instrumental music that has a literary association such as a poem or story is known as ___________ music.

program

What was at the heart of the Romantic movement?

striving towards an ideal state of being

Which of the following describe program music and which do not?

Describes program music -music that tells a specific story -music that attempts to capture a specific mood Does not describe program music -music for music's sake with no extra-musical meaning -any music that is listed in a printed program

"Romantic" was a term that twentieth-century scholars coined for music of the nineteenth century

False

Which of the following describe Romantic style and which do not?

True about Romantic style -Romanticism encouraged innovation. -There was an expectation that each artist would develop a personal style. False about Romantic style -Most Romantic music attempts to copy the style of Classical and Baroque composers rather than create a new style. -Romantic artists rarely interacted with each other or had the opportunity to hear each other's work.

In grandiose compositions, the problem of musical form was solved by what?

adding extramusical factors to justify the form

Match the musical excerpt to the stylistic feature of Romantic music it exemplifies.

expanded use of chromaticism -0:18Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet a loose approach to form that broke from Classical norms -0:19Schumann, "Im wunderschönen Monat Mai" expansion of tone color for emotional expression and special effects -0:12Musorgsky, "Gnomus"

Match the musical work with the feature of Romanticism that it represents.

the supernatural Schubert's "Erlkönig" free treatment of sonata form Schumann's "Fantasy" sonata liberation politics Beethoven's Eroica symphony