| A | B |
|---|
| Liszt | Hungarian |
| Bel Canto | beautiful singing |
| Wagner | dominated German opera |
| Verdi | dominated Italian opera |
| Chopin | Polish |
| Polanaise | court dance |
| maruka | folk dance |
| Schumann, Robert | was institutionalized |
| Schumman, Clara | gave rise as a virtuoso |
| Haydn | called himself a classicist |
| Bethoven | was involved in a custody battle |
| The most important changes in Romantic music | breadkdown of tonal system and use of orchestration |
| Fanny | Mendelssohn |
| Shubert | wrote over 900 compositions |
| art song | first free standing vocal solo (except for folk music) |
| another name for an art song | lied |
| group of lieder with a similar theme | song cycle |
| Liszt | greatest pianist |
| Chopin | famous for etudes |
| Polish composer | Chopin |
| Hungarian composer | Liszt |
| Berloiz | started "program music" |
| creator of the modern orchestra | Berloiz |
| Tchaikovsky | gifted composer of the Nutcracker |
| Mahler | conductor of the New York Philharmonic |
| Brahms | misplaced classicist who combined baroque and classic forms with romantic techniques |
| became an Italian national hero | Verdi |
| stretched tonal system to its limits | Wagner |
| Richter | coined term for romanticism |
| Goethe Hoffman Heine | German writers who influenced composers |
| Dvorak & Smetana | Czech or Hungarian composers |
| Finish Composer | Sibelius |
| Rousseau | advocated equality and a return to nature: noble savage |
| Hegel and Herder | proposed one's culture should be expressed in music |
| cast iron frame | piano |
| Edison | phonograph |
| American Civil War | equality and |
| Glinka | Russian not on outline, but important |
| Mussorgsky | one of the FIVE |
| valves on brass | double escapement action |
| Foster | American Romantic composer |
| Romantic music name | from medieval ballads |
| Absolute | classical |
| Program music | depicts an idea or thing |
| Nocturne | means night, popularized by Chopin |
| Grand opera | elaborate Italian opera with no spoken language |
| singspiel | german stage work with singing and spoken dialogue |
| music drama | Wagner style drama |
| lieder | song for piano and voice |
| intermezzo | short pieces between movements of longer work |
| etude | study piece meant to improve technique |
| opera buffa | Italian comedic opera |
| opera seria | Italian tragic opera |
| Theme of many of Beethoven's symphonies | fate |
| crescendo | rising action that signifies storm in Beethoven piece |
| March to the Scaffold | Symphony Fantastique |
| Harriet Smithson | Berloiz dedicated his symphony to her |
| Berloiz and Bizet | won Prix de Rome |
| Idee Fixe | similar to leit motif |
| wrote Barber of Seville, Marriage of Figaro | Rossini |
| William Tell | Swiss patriot |
| Schiller | wrote the story about William Tell (but not the composer) |
| Mickieweitz | inspired Chopin to write Ballades |
| Dedicated his work to Liszt | Chopin |
| Anvil Chorus | from Il Trovatore |
| Verdi's operas had nationalistic messages against | Austria |
| St. John's ...... | Night on Bald Mountain |
| Gogol | wrote short story that Bald Mountain is based on |
| Boris Gudunov | Mussorgsky's masterpiece based on a Pushkin play about a tyrant tsar |
| Rimsky Korsakov | "polished" Mussorgsky's work |
| Brunhilde | leader of the Valkyries |
| Die Walkure | Ride of the Valkyries |
| Richard Wagner married | Cosima Liszt (daughter of Liszt) |
| Bayreuth | Wagner's theater |
| Wotan | head God in Valhalla |
| Gesamtkunstwerk | total artwork |
| 16 | hours it took to perform the ring cycle |
| 4 | number of operas about Norse mythology Wagner wrote |
| Bizet's opera | Carmen |
| Carmen | opera the Torreador Song is from |
| carmen was based on her | Celeste Venard |
| Escamillo | bullfighter |
| verismo | realism |
| Brahms fell in love with her | Clara |
