Study Questions
For
The Romantic Period

How is Brahms often described?

How is the democratic character of the Romantic movement illustrated?

Where was Franz Liszt born?

What is My Country?

Know all the typical themes of the Romantic Lied.

What is program music?

Who supported Clara Schumann, emotionally and artistically, after Robert's death?

Who is the "Poet of the Piano?"

How was the rise of a new social order shaped by?

What was Clara Schumann's main instrument?

Who is considered to be the single most important phenomenon in the artistic life of the latter half of the nineteenth century?

Franz Schubert was of what origin?

Know about Schubert's Erlking.

How did Nationalistic composers express their nationalism?

Know about Clara Schumann's Scherzo, Op. 10.

Know the difference between Program Music, Absolute Music and Incidental Music.

Know about The Moldau.

What was considered the most important keyboard instrument of the Romantic period?

What is a multimovement work for orchestras that is programmatic?

Where did Chopin spend most of his productive life?

Who did Chopin become romantically involved?

Who is considered the first great exponent of musical Romanticism in France?

In the Ring cycle, who is the father of the gods?

Did the Industrial Revolution produce less expensive musical instruments?

What is the idee fixe?

Name the principal themes in Wagner's operas, which recur throughout a work and carry specific meanings.

Know the characteristics of Romantic music.

During the Romantic period, what is the usual form of the first movement of a symphony?

What is Exoticism?

Know about A Poet's Love.

Who invented the music drama?

Compare the sizes of the Classical and Romantic orchestras.

Number of movements found in a typical symphony.

Know important composers of the 19th Century Lieder.

Know about the Bayreuth Theater.

Know about the music and style of Berlioz.

Know how nineteenth-century orchestral music differs from that of the eighteenth century.

Who did Robert and Clara Schumann take in their home around the time of Robert Schumann's mental collapse?

What is the form of Erlking?

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October 23, 2000