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Romantic Period
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| accelerando | gradually faster |
| adagio | slowly, leisurely |
| allargando | gradually slower |
| allegro | lively |
| andante | moderate tempo |
| brio | with vigor and spirit |
| diminuendo | gradually softer |
| fine | the end |
| grave | slow, solemn, deep |
| largo | broadly, slowly |
| marcato | marked, accented |
| meno mosso | less quickly |
| morendo | fading away |
| poco a poco | little by little |
| presto | quickly |
| vivace | lively and quick |
| middle ages period | 450 - 1450 |
| middle ages composers | philippe de vitry, guillaume de machaut |
| renaissance period | 1450 - 1600 |
| renaissance composers | giovanni palestrina, giovanni gabrieli |
| baroque period | 1600 - 1750 |
| baroque composers | vivaldi, bach, handel |
| death of bach | 1750, end of baroque |
| classical period | 1750 - 1820 |
| classical composers | haydn, mozart, beethoven (<3!) |
| romantic period | 1820 - 1900 |
| romantic composers | felix mendelssohn, frederick chopin, richard wagner, johannes brahms, peter ilyich tchaikovsky, antonin dvorak |
| modern/contemporary period | 1900 - present |
| modern/contemporary composers | claude debussy, maurice rovel, bela bartok, igor stravinsky (<3!), george gershwin, aaron copland |