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Music History Chapter 20
from Ideas and Styles in the Western Tradition
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Undergraduate 3
02/27/2013

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Who worked as a music critic and founded an independent music journal?
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Robert Schumann
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The Italian composers of the Romantic period developed a structure for the large solo operatic number in ____ large parts.
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two
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The "dissimilar duet" was designed to express dramatic conflict in opera by the composer _______.
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Gaetano Donizetti
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Eugène Scribe made his important contributions to the history of music as __________.
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a librettist
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Nicolo Paganini made his important contributions to the history of music as a ________.
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virtuoso performer
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What is a mazurka?
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A type of character piece for piano based on a Polish dance. Often used by Chopin.
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Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is an example of the genre _____.
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program symphony
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The composer _________________________ was one of the most imaginative orchestrators of the Romantic period and even wrote a treatise on the subject.
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Hector Berlioz
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_________________________ stands as an abstract symbol in music of the Romantic thinker's search for the unity in all things.
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cyclic unification
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The conductor _________________________ has an important place in music history for his role in reviving the works of preceding generations in his performances.
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Felix Mendelssohn
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Who invented the solo recital?
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Liszt
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What were the social centers in Paris?
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Salons
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What were the "three types of composers" in the early 19th century?
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Great artists but financially insecure, popular and financially successful, and mass market composers who are unknown today
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