Chapters 14-18 Vocabulary
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- a sort romantic piano piece that portrays a particular mood
- character piece
- a musical style employing all or may of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale much of the time
- chromaticism
- german for "song"; also a special genre of Romantic songs with piano
- lied
- a term for a short, evocative composition for piano or for piano and voice, composed in the Romantic period
- miniature
- changing key within a piece
- modulation
- a short fragment of melody or rhythm used in constructinga long section of music
- motive
- a 19th century movement promoting music built an national folk songs and dances, or associated with national subjects
- nationalism
- "night piece"
- nocturne
- a piece of instrumental music associated with a story or other extramusical idea
- program music
- "robbed" time; the free treatment of meter in performance
- rubato
- a form developed by beethoven from the minuet to use for movements in larger compositions;later sometimes used alone, as by chopin
- scherzo
- a group of songs connected by a general idea or story, and sometimes also by musical unifying devices
- song cycle
- a song in several stanzas, with the same music sung for each stanza;as opposed to through-composed song
- strophic
- a piece of orchestral program music in one long movement
- symphonic poem
- a song with new music for each stanza of the poem;as opposed to strophic song
- through-composed