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Romantic Music Final
Term | Definition |
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canon | a core repertoire, or the "chestnuts" of classical music performed at concerts continually since the eighteenth century |
chromatic harmony | harmony utilizing chords built on the five chromatic notes of the scale in addition to the seven diatonic ones; produces rich harmonies |
character piece | a brief instrumental work seeking to capture a single mood; a genre much favored by composers of the Romantic era |
rubato | (Italian for "robbed") in musical notation, a tempo mark indicating that the performer may take, or steal great liberties with the tempo |
virtuoso | an instrumentalist or singer with a highly developed technical facility |
art song | |
ballad | |
Lied (pl. Lieder) | |
Schubertiad | |
song cycle | |
through-composed | |
strophic form | |
modified strophic form | |
program music | |
absolute music | |
program symphony | |
dramatic overture | |
tone (symphonic) poem | |
ophicleide | |
English horn | |
cornet | |
orchestration | |
idee fixe | |
dies irae | |
diminution | |
col lengo | |
ballet | |
ballet music | |
celesta | |
musical nationalism | |
Russian Five | |
pentatonic scale | |
sustaining pedal | |
soft pedal | |
cross-stringing | |
nocturne | |
bel canto | |
Listzomania | |
recital | |
etude | |
prima donna | |
diva | |
recitativo accompagnato | |
scena | |
cabaletta | |
Ring cycle | |
Bayreuth Festival | |
music drama | |
Gesamtkunstwerk | |
endless melody | |
leitmotif | |
realistic opera | |
flamenco | |
habanera | |
verismo opera |