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==Tin Pan Alley== ==Tin Pan Alley==
-In the later decades of the 19th century, the music industry became dominated by a group of publishers and song-writers in New York City that came to be known as [[Tin Pan Alley]]. Tin Pan Alley's representatives spread throughout the country, buying local hits for their publishers and pushing their publisher's latest songs. Song demonstrators were fixtures at department stores and music stores across the country, and traveling song demonstrators made circuits of rural areas. The industry was driven by the profits from the sales of [[sheet music]]. A [[piano]] was considered a must in any [[middle-class]] or higher home. Major 19th century Tin Pan Alley hits included "Only a Bird in a Guilded Cage" and "After the Ball Is Over".+In the later decades of the 19th century, the music industry became dominated by a group of publishers and song-writers in New York City that came to be known as [[Tin Pan Alley]]. Tin Pan Alley's representatives spread throughout the country, buying local hits for their publishers and pushing their publisher's latest songs. Song demonstrators were fixtures at department stores and music stores across the country, and traveling song demonstrators made circuits of rural areas. The industry was driven by the profits from the sales of [[sheet music]]. A [[piano]] was considered a must in any [[middle-class]] or higher home. Major 19th century Tin Pan Alley hits included "[[Only a Bird in a Guilded Cage]]" and "[[After the Ball Is Over]]".
==19th-century opera== ==19th-century opera==
In opera, the forms for individual numbers that had been established in classical and baroque opera were more loosely used. By the time [[Richard Wagner|Wagner's]] operas were performed, [[aria]]s, [[Choir|chorus]]es, [[recitative]]s and ensemble pieces often cannot easily be distinguished from each other in the continuous, through-composed music. In opera, the forms for individual numbers that had been established in classical and baroque opera were more loosely used. By the time [[Richard Wagner|Wagner's]] operas were performed, [[aria]]s, [[Choir|chorus]]es, [[recitative]]s and ensemble pieces often cannot easily be distinguished from each other in the continuous, through-composed music.

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Tin Pan Alley

In the later decades of the 19th century, the music industry became dominated by a group of publishers and song-writers in New York City that came to be known as Tin Pan Alley. Tin Pan Alley's representatives spread throughout the country, buying local hits for their publishers and pushing their publisher's latest songs. Song demonstrators were fixtures at department stores and music stores across the country, and traveling song demonstrators made circuits of rural areas. The industry was driven by the profits from the sales of sheet music. A piano was considered a must in any middle-class or higher home. Major 19th century Tin Pan Alley hits included "Only a Bird in a Guilded Cage" and "After the Ball Is Over".

19th-century opera

In opera, the forms for individual numbers that had been established in classical and baroque opera were more loosely used. By the time Wagner's operas were performed, arias, choruses, recitatives and ensemble pieces often cannot easily be distinguished from each other in the continuous, through-composed music.

The decline of castrati led to the heroic leading role in many operas being ascribed to the tenor voice. The chorus was often given a more important role.

In France, operas such as Bizet's Carmen are typical, but towards the end of the Romantic period, verismo opera became popular, particularly in Italy. It depicted realistic, rather than historical or mythological, subjects.

19th-century classical music

Sonata form matured during the Classical era to become the primary form of instrumental compositions throughout the 19th century. Much of the music from the nineteenth century was referred to as being in the Romantic style. Many great composers lived through this era such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner. The list includes:


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