Music App Big Test

Music Big Test

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Cards In This Set

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Career was a model for many romantic composers
Niccolo Paganini
Earned his living as a violin virtuoso
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer supported by private patrons
Berlioz and Schumann
Music criticism was a source of income for:
French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Because of these, aristocrats couldn’t afford to maintain private opera houses, orchestras, and “composers in residence”
Piano
Very important musical part of every middle-class home during the romantic period
Regular Subscription
Type of concert that became common in the nineteenth century
Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Oberlin, Philadelphia
In the 1860’s, conservatories were founded in
Art Song
Composition for solo voice and piano
Postlude
Piano section that sums up the mood
Modified Strophic Form
Two of the three stanzas are set to the same music
Song Cycle
Songs that are grouped in a set
Lied
Word commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text
Strophic Form
Music is repeated for all the stanzas of a song
Through-Composed From
Music is written for each stanza of a song