IB Music HL: Romantic Era Vocab

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Chapters: 37, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 49, 50,

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Swing Low Sweet Chariot

  • A spiritual written before the 1840s

  • may have been created by a slave named Choctaw Willis who worked at a native american boarding school in Oklahoma

  • A white reverend heard the song and popularized it within the African American community

  • This song was arranged and rearranged multiple times by different artists of the early 20th century

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Harlem Renaissance

  • An attempt by African American artists and philosophers to claim a “high culture” space for their people in order to counteract the racism they experienced in America

  • This led to spirituals being presented alongside European music as valid american art

  • This was a time where African American writers and Musicians gained popularity in the process of finding where their art fit into the European centered world which they lived in

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Spiritual

  • Semi-improvised tradition of sacred songs

  • developed by black slaves and freedmen

  • often involved monophonic signing with some heterophonic elaboration

  • were full of rhythmic and melodic traits which were very different from the European norms

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Ring Shout

  • An extended call and response

  • would build into a religious fervor

  • developed by slaves from African traditions

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Camp meetings

  • Days of weeks when African American and European American people gathered to sing hymns of praise

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A-B-A’

  • Statement - departure - return (a familiar pattern for orchestral work)

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Ninth chord

  • A set of five notes in which the interval between the lowest and highest tones is a ninth

  • The effect was one of hovering between tonalities, creating elusive effects that evoke the misty outlines of impressionist painting

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Impressionism

  • A musical style of composition in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects

  • characteristically using the whole-tone scale

  • Impressionism is also a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience

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Melodrama

  • One element that characterized the German musical theater of the early 1800s

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Leitmotifs

  • Recurring themes, that represent a person, place, or idea. (leading Motives)

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Music Dramas

  • Integrated music, poetry, drama, and spectacle

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Singpiel

  • Music genre, of a light, comic drama with spoken dialogue (in Germany)

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Bel Canto

  • Beautiful Singing

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Opera Buffa

  • Comic Opera

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Opera Seria

  • Serious opera

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Shakespeare’s Comedy

  • A type of Shakespeare

  • EX: A Midsummer Nights Dream

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Symphonic Poem

  • AKA: Tone Poem

  • Formed out of the composers need for large orchestral forms

  • A program music for orchestra in one movement with contrasting sections that develop a poetic idea, suggest a scene, or create a mood

  • Most common type of orchestral program music through the second half of the century

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Incidental Music

  • A form of program music

  • Consisting of an overture and a series of pieces performed between the acts of a play and during important scenes

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Overture

  • A rousing orchestral piece in one movement

  • Due to the popularity of program overtures, overtures became separate concert pieces and eventually disassociate from opera

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Program Overture

  • A type of program to come out of an opera house

  • Where the overture served as an introduction to an opera or play

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Character Piece

  • Short lyric piano piece, equivalent to the song

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Rubato of “robbed time”

  • In which certain liberties are taken with the rhythm without upsetting the basic beat

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Polonaises

  • A slow dance of Polish origin

  • in triple time

  • consisting chiefly of an intricate march or procession

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études

  • Highly virtuosic study pieces

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Minstrel shows

  • Racially charged theatre through which songs were popularized

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Minstrelsy

  • A form of entertainment associated with minstrel shows

  • featuring songs, dances, and formulaic comic routines based on stereotyped depictions of African Americans

  • typically performed by white actors with blackened faces.

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parlor songs

  • Usually performed by amature musicians in parlors

  • Often sweet, sentimental, and nostalgic.

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Modified strophic

  • The same melody may be repeated for two or three stanzas, with new material introduced when the poem requires it

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through-composed

  • Proceeds from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections

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Strophic Form

  • The melody is repeated with every stanza/strophe of the poem

  • hymns, carols, as well as most folk and popular songs are strophic

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Song Cycle

  • Groups of Lieder that were unified by a narrative thread or descriptive theme

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The Lied

  • A German-texted solo song

  • generally with a piano accompaniment

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