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Romantic Music Final
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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