MUSC-4160 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Song Cycle, Gesamtkunstwerk, Recitative
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Romantic period trends: might ask to apply a piece and see how it explifies the romantic period, symphony fantastique. Literary influences: not beethoven, non-musicians, shakespeare, goathe, eta hoffman, name 2 literary influences. Thematic transformations examples: anything by listz, anything by berlioz, anything by tchkavoski. We need to name characteristics: schubert is known for lieder, no dates, know which composers are more traditional, schubert, mendelssohn, if you know they are traditional, you know they will do classical genres. Mendelssohn: known for bach revival, was jewish, but wrote a lot of christian oratorios, elijah (example, very much based on the past. Is a romantic composer, but is generally non-programatic: none of the titles were extra musical , know some non-programmatic character pieces, mazurkas (nationalistic, nocturnes. Just wrote a nocturne (no special title: b (nationalistic, ballades. Had 4 ballades: ballade 1, ballade 2, ballade 3, ballade 4, etudes.
