How do composers express nationalism in music? Support at least ...

[naturalchemist]

How do composers express nationalism in music? Support at least two of your statements with examples from
  compositions discussed in class.

 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Contrast program and absolute music. Give a definition for each term and provide a nineteenth-century example
  (including the name of the composer) from the text.

 
  What will be an ideal response?

[elizabethrperez]

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: National color in music was communicated by means of indigenous folk elementsfolksongs, native scales,
dance rhythms, and local instrumental sounds. It could also be conveyed by using national subjects as the
program for a symphonic poem or the libretto for an opera

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: see Glossary, various examples

[naturalchemist]

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[Chelseyj.hasty]

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