Unit 4 Study Guide
Chapter 17: Romantic Era
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bel canto gesamtkunstwerk lieder natural selection leitmotiv Times to Know:
1. Beginning of the French Revolution (1792)
2. American Civil War (1861-1865)
Names to Know:
1. Louis Pasteur
2. Charles Darwin
3. Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Jacques-Louis David
5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Shelley, Byron, and Keats (started Romantic poetry in England)
7. Charles Dickens
8. Edgar Allan Poe
9. Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson (American poets)
10. Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville (American novelists)
11. Schubert, Verdi, and Wagner (Composers)
12. Victor Hugo
13. Leo Tolstoy
Styles to Know:
1. Romantic
2. Neo-classical
3. Realism
Works to Know:
1. Goya’s The Third of May, 1808
2. The Raft of the Medusa
3. Hay Wain
4. Walden
5. The Slave Ship
6. Les Miserables
7. Communist Manifesto
8. Tale of Two Cities
9. The Origin of Species
10. Walden
11. Oliver Twist
12. Faust
13. The Sorrows of Young Werther
Questions:
1. How did the Industrial Revolution affect the birth of the Romantic era?
2. Name some of the many inventions of the Scientific Revolution.
3. What was Sturm and Drang?
4. Who is considered the greatest composer of operas in the 1800s?
5. Who is known for creating hundreds of lieder?
6. Who devised the leitmotiv?
7. What was Emily Bronte’s only novel?
8. Did Beethoven write operas? What is his music like? Why?
9. What is the story behind The Raft of the Medusa?
Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era 1870-1914
Define:
1. Program music
2. stream of consciousness
3. pointillism
Times to Know:
1. Impressionism begins (c.1874)
2. Post-impressionism emerges (c.1880)
3. German Expressionism (c.1903-1913)
4. Fauvism begins (c.1905)
5. Beginning of World War I (1914)
Names to Know:
1. Cassatt
2. Cezanne
3. Degas
4. Gauguin
5. Manet
6. Monet
7. Morisot
8. Renoir
9. Rodin
10. van Gogh
11. Seurat
12. Picasso
13. Braque
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