Chapter 26: Romanticism in Classical Forms

Chapter 26 from A history of western music

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Besides home music making, what other sector of musical performance saw phenomenal growth during the Romantic period?
Public concerts
In addition to professional orchestras and virtuoso's, what other kinds of institutions also arose with missions to provide public performances of art music?
Amateur Orchestras, Choral Societies and entrepreneurs
What type/ genre of art music also moved at this time from being " privately" performed to "public" performance?
Chamber music
Over what initial period did "classical" or regularly repeating repertoires begin to form, and what genre of music and what composers lead the way?
1780-1870; starting with oratorios of Handel and Haydn; Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn
The text points out that all of this came with and helped provide a new historical awareness, resulting in a rich tension between what two things?
Romantic content and classic genres and forms
How did orchestras grow in the number of expected players over the nineteenth centuries?
40-90
When did the tuba join the brass section?
1830's
In what year did Louis Spohr introduce the concept of conducting with a baton?
1820
What kinds of music typically comprised a London Philharmonic program before 1850?
Symphony, aria or choral composition, a concerto or chamber work, another vocal work and a closing symphony
What percentage of music programmed by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was from living composers in the 1780's, 1820 and 1870?
1780: 85%1820:75%1870:25%
The new seriousness of the repertoire was matched by a new seriousness in___________.
Concert behavior
The text states that the history of orchestral music in the nineteenth century can be seen as a series or varied responses to the example of what composer?
Beethoven
For the mature Schubert and his fellow romantics, what was more important in music?
Melodies
Who wrote the nineteenth century "bible" on orchestration?
Hector Berlioz
Because his music was too radical to win steady support, to what did Berlioz ( and Schumann) turn to as their chief profession?
Music criticism