ROMANTIC PERIOD PROGRAM MUSIC AND BALLET
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ROMANTIC PERIOD-PROGRAM MUSIC AND BALLET
1. What is program music? music that is intended to evoke images or convey the impression of events
2. What is absolute music? instrumental music composed purely as music, and not intended to represent or illustrate something else
3. Describe the form known as a concert overture. an independent, one-movement work, which took either the classical sonata form or the free form of a symphonic poem
4. What is incidental music? music used in a film or play as a background to create or enhance a particular atmosphere
5. What is a program symphony? a type of symphonic composition that is written to correspond to a narrative structure, sometimes accompanied by a narrative program to go along with the music.
6. What is a symphonic poem? another term for tone poem.
7. What did Berlioz write in addition to his musical compositions? Treatise on Instrumentation
8. Who was Harriet Smithson? Harriet Constance Smithson, who also went by Henrietta Constance Smithson, Harriet Smithson Berlioz, and Miss H.C. Smithson, was an Anglo-Irish Shakespearean actress of the 19th century, best known as the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz
9. What is Berlioz's best-known program symphony? Symphonie Fantastique
10. What is the source of the "program" for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique? semi-autobiographical programme
11. What is the melody known as "Dies irae" that Berlioz used in his program symphony? "Day of Wrath"
12. Who is the most famous Russian composer in the Romantic period? Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
13. What Russian composer traveled to the United States for the opening of Carnegie Hall in New York? Tchaikovsky
14. Upon what famous play is Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet based? Shakespeare's play of the same name
15. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet is an example of what kind of program music? program symphony
16. How is the early development of ballet related to opera? The inclusion of ballet in opera began around 1645, when Italian operas were taken to the court of King Louis XIV and were tailored to fit French tastes – which included ballet
17. Who is the most well-known composer of ballet music in the Romantic period? Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
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