Romantic Opera and Musical Theater to Midcentury

15 important questions on Romantic Opera and Musical Theater to Midcentury

What was the first type of American music to be exported to Europe?

The Minstrel show

When was the golden age of opera?

The first half of the 19th century

By what year did a permanent repertory of opera begin to emerge?

1850
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Which composer came into prominence after Rossini retired and what were his dates?

Vincenzo Bellini 1801-1835

What were 4 characteristics of French Grand Opera

1. Machinery
2. Ballets
3. Choruses
4. Crowd scenes

Who were the main leaders of French grand opera?

Giacomo Meyerbeer - composer
Eugene Scribe - librettist

Which opera and composer established German Romantic opera?

Der Freischutz (The Rifleman) by Carl Maria von Weber

What was the most popular form of musical theater in the US?

Minstrelsy

Who was the French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas Manon and Werther?

Jules Massenet

Which pieces were inspired by Brahms's Hungarian Dances?

Dvorak's "Slavonic Dances" - originally written for piano four hands and then orchestrated shortly after composition

What is the "Spring Symphony"

Not the Benjamin Britten piece... but rather

It is Schumann's 1st Symphony, No. 1 (in B-flat major)

Who wrote an important Treatise on Orchestration in the early 19th century, and who later updated it?

Berlioz

Richard Strauss later updated it with examples from Wagner

In addition to nationalism, what was another common theme in literature and art of the late 19th century?

realism

What is a Mazurka?

A polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, with strong accents unsystematically placed on the 2nd or 3 beat

What type of genre began to be supplanted by the symphonic poem in the 1850s?

concert overture

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