Music Appreciation: Part 5
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- Nocturne
- A type of nineteenth-century character piece for piano. Originally, the word means, "Night Music."
- Lied (lieder)
- The German word for Art Song
- Incidental Music
- Music composed to be performed in conjunction with a drama
- Program Symphony
- A multi-movement programmatic work for orchestra
- Character Piece
- A short keyboard work expressing a mood or idea, composed during the Romantic period
- Rubato
- A performer's slight deviations from a strict tempo
- Impressionism
- An artistic viewpoint that emphasizes overall impressions rather than detailed or intellectual observations
- Exoticism
- A phase of Romanticism that draws on scenes from Asia and the Middle East
- Theme Transformation
- The alteration of a theme that retains its characteristic intervals of melody or rhythm pattern
- Bel Canto
- Literally, "Beautiful singing" in Italian. Often it refers to the style of opera in the first part of the nineteenth century that featured much vocal technique and beautiful singing
- Tone Poem (Symphonic Poem)
- A sizable orchestral work of program music
- Romantic Period
- The style of music that was prevalent from about 1820 to 1910
- Diminution
- The proportional reduction of all note values in a theme
- Concert Overture
- An overture NOT associated with an opera or drama
- Fixed Idea (idee fixe)
- A theme that is transformed during various places in a composition
- Post-Romanticism
- Works in the Romantic style, composed after it was the prevailing style
- Whole-Tone Scale
- A scale in which the octave is divided into six whole steps
- Orchestration
- The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments
- Ballet
- Music and bodily movements combined for artistic purposes
- Choreographer
- The person who designs the movement of dancers
- Music Drama
- The term Richard Wagner used for his operas in which he tried to strike a balance between the music and the dramatic action
- Nationalism
- A deliberate, conscious attempt to develop artworks that are characteristic of a particular country or region
- Chaconne
- A work featuring variations on a pattern of chords repeated throughout the work
- Virtuoso
- A very technically skilled performer
- Transcription
- An adaptation of a musical work for an instrument or voice for another instrument or voice, or for a group of either
- Polymeter
- The presence of two or more meters at the same time
- Augmentation
- A compositional technique in which the note values of a theme are all lengthened proportionally
- Leitmotiv
- A motive or theme that is associated with a particular character or idea in the music dramas of Richard Wagner
- Etude
- A short instrumental work, stressing some technical aspect of playing the instrument
- Through-Composed Song
- A song that contains no repetition of lines of music
- Art Song
- A music setting of a text by a composer for solo singer and piano
- Program Music
- Instrumental works associated by the composer with an extra-musical idea of object