Music Appreciation Test #5

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What years did the Romantic Era span?

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1820 - 1900

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What characterizes the Romantic Era?

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--expressive as possible
--more emotional
--more colorful

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Beethoven was only a classical composer. (T/F)

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False; He was part of both the Classical era & the Romantic era

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What were the 5 new instruments introduced in the Romantic Era?

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Tuba, English horn, Piccolo, Contra bassoon, saxaphone

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What did the invention of the valves do for brass instruments in the Romantic era?

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It allowed French horns & Trumpets to play melody

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Dolce

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Sweetly

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Cantabile

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Songful

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Dolente

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Weeping

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Mesto

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Sad

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Maestoso

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Majestic

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Gioioso

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Joyous

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Con Amore

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Tenderly w/ love

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Why did composers use more folk song and dances from their native lands in the Romantic era?

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Rising of nationalism

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Orchestration

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Techinque of setting instruments in various combonations

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When was the conductor invented?

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Romantic era

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What was the most important instrumental piece?

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Symphony

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Tone poem / Symphonic poem

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Large scale work w/ one movement

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Lied

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German text solo vocal song w/ piano accompaniment

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Strophic form

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Song structure in which the same music is repeated w/ every stanza (strophe) of the poem

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Through-composed form

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Proceeds from beginning to end w/o repititions of whole sections

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Modified Strophic form

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combines elements of strophic and through-composed forms

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Song cycle

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Group of songs, usually a leider, that are unified musically or through their texts

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What composer suffered from depression & syphillis and ended-up in an asylum?

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Robert Schumann

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Franz Schubert also had syphillis. (T/F)

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True

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The new pianos in the Romantic era were ________ than its predesessors.

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Louder

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Program music

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Instrumental music with a literary or pictorial association supplied by the composer

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Symphonic Poem

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Large scale single movement work

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What were the 1st & 3rd movements of a Romantic era Symphony?

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Sonata-allegro; Scherzo

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Who wrote symphonies in the Romantic era?

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--Felix Mendelssohn
--Robert Schumann
--Brahms
--Tchaikovsky

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The Romantic era symphony had more of a developement section than the classicists. (T/F)

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True

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Romantic concerto featured cadenzas that were much shorter than the classicists. (T/F)

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False; the cadenzas were much longer

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Part song

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Secular vocal composition, unaccompanied, in three, four, or more parts

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Oratorio

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Similar to opera but w/o scenery, costumes, or action

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Concerto

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Instrumental genre in several movements for solo instrument and orchestra

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Grand Opera

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Large scale w/ singers, dancers, orchestra, and lots of people on stage

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Bel Canto style

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Beautiful singing

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What is the Ring Cycle? AND Who wrote it?

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--4 seperate operas
--endless music

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Leitmotif

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"Leading Motive" or reoccuring theme, representing a person, object, or idea

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Who is known for using leitmotifs?

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Richard Wagner

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Verisimo

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More realism in opera

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Ballet

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No singing or words

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Pas de Deux

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Dance for two

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Romantic composers wanted music to _______.

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Sing (melody)

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In the Romantic era music moved from the palace to public concert halls. (T/F)

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True

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Exocticism

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Interest in colors and fairy-tales

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Nationalism

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Love for ones country

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The Romantic era was less passionate than the Classical era. (T/F)

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False; it was much more passionate than Classical era

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Compositions got bigger in the Romantic era which resulted in fewer symphonies. (T/F)

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True

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Erlking is based on what?

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A legend that whoever is touched by the king of the elves must die

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What two large song cycles did Franz Schubert write?

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--The lovely maid of the Mill
--Winters Journey

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How many pieces of music did Franz Schubert write?

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Over 600

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What form is Earlking?

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Through-composed lied

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Clara Schumann was surrounded by what two great composers?

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--Brahms
--Robert Schumann (her husband)

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What type of music did Fanny Mendelssohn mostly write?

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Romantic Part songs

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What was the most important keyboard instrument in the Romantic era?

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Piano

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What was the equivalence of a song in the Romantic era?

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Short lyric piano pieces

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Rubato

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--"Borrowed time"
--hesitating or hurrying forward

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Program music

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Music that has literary or pictoral associations

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Incidental music

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Music written to accompany dramatic works

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Program symphony

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Multimovement programmatic orchestral work

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Symphonic poem

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--One-movement
--Developes poetic idea

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Who created the modern orchestra?

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Berlioz

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What genre was Symphonie Fantastique?

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Program Symphony (5 movements)

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Idee fixe

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--Fixed idea
--reoccuring idea that links different movements

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What genre is Smetana's The Moldau?

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Symphonic poem from cycle My Country

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What genre is My country by Smetana?

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Song cycle

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How many symphonic poems were in My Country?

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6

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What did composers do to express nationalism?

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Used fold songs and dances from their native country

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Symphony

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Large work for orchestra; usually in three or four movements

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Tempo scheme

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Fast, slow, moderate, fast

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How many symphonies did Brahms write?

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4

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Why did Brahms wait till middle age to write symphonies?

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Very tough to compose a symphony after Beethoven

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Who wrote the New World Symphony while he was living in the United States?

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Dvorak

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Sonata

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Instrumental genre in several movements for soloist or small ensemble

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Concerto

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Instrumental genre in several movements for solo inst. AND Orchestra

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How many movements in the Romantic Concerto?

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Classical 3 movement form

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Cadenza

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Virtuosic solo passage (improv)

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U.S. composers who wanted to study music had to go where?

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Europe

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What roles did Felix Mendelssohn play in society?

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Pianist, conductor, organizer of festivals, and educator

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Recitative

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Solo vocal that follows the inflections of the text. (opera)

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Overture

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Introductory movement

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Librettist

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Prepares text or script of an opera

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Where did the Grand opera get its start?

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France

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Singspiel

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German comic opera

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Opera buffa

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Italian comic opera; sung throughout

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Opera comique

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French comic opera; some spoken dialogue

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What composer landed himself in parliament?

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Verdi; national hero

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Why was Verdi thought to be a national hero?

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Nabucco; Italian patrotic song during liberation from Austria Hasburg rule

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Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?

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Rigolettos daughter; Gilda

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Who invented the music drama?

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Richard Wagner

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Who was the best and influenced all music?

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Richard Wagner

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Who built the massive opera house for Wagners "Ring Cycle"

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Ludwig II of Bavaria

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Who wrote the 4 opera cycle "The ring of Nibelung"?

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Richard Wagner

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What aria is one of the most memorable in all of opera literature?

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"Un bel di"; Puccini

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Un bel di

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One beautiful day

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Who was Tchaikovsky's principle patron?

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Nadezhda von Meck

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What was Tchaikovsky famous for?

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Ballets

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Post Romanticism

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Germany

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Impressionism

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France

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In Monets painting the colors ________.

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Shimmer

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What kind of music took away the accent of the first beat of each measure?

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Impressionist music

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Who was the main impressionist composer?

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Claude Debussy