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Romantic Period
Word | Definition |
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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 |