Romanticism: The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension.
Virtuoso: Performer of extrordinary technical ability. a charismatic figure who was technically brilliant on his or her instrument and who riveted audiences in public concerts as well as in private recitals in fashionable salons.
Tempo Rubato: Perfoemer hesitates here or hurries forward there, imparting flexibility to the written note values.
Chararcter Piece: A short, lyric piano work often with a descriptive title; popular in 19th century.
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Atonality: Total abandoment of tonality. Music moves from one level of dissonance to another without areas of relaxation.
Avant-grade: French term that refers to new styles and techniques in the arts, especially in the early 20th century.
Serialism: Method of composition in which various musical elements may be oredered in a fixed series.
Underscoring: A technique used in films in which the music comes from an unseen source.
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Wagner: Die Walkure, Act III
Leitmotifs: “Leading Motive”. or basic recurring theme, representing a person, object, or idea; widely used in Wagner’s dramas.
Gesamtkunstwerk “Total art work” makes use of all or many art forms
Music Drama: Wagner’s term of his opera.
Debussy:Prelude to “The afternoon of a Faun”
Impressionism: A french movement developed by visual artists who favored vague, blurring images intended to capture an “impression” of the subject. Impressionism in music is characterized by exotic scales, unresolved dissonances, parallel chords, rich orchestral tone color and free rhythm.
Stephane Mallarme: Fountainhead of symbolist movement who wrote “The afternoon of a Faun” peom.
Symbolist Poetry: Poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Part I
Polyrhythm: The simultaneous use of several rhythmic patters or meters, common in 20th century music.
Polyharmony: Two or more streams of harmony played against each other, 20th century.
Polychord: A single chord comprised of several chords, 20th