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34 Cards in this Set
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symphony
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a large orchestral piece with several movements.
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sonata
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a chambe music peice of several movements typicaly for three main instruents plus continuo in the baroque period and for only one or two more instruments since then.
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string quartet
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an instrumental group consisting of 2 violins, viola, and cello or a peice composed for this group or the four players themselves.
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chamber music
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most played by small groups such as a string quartet or a piano trio
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piano concerto
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piano solist with orchestra
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opera buffa
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ittalian comic opera
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opera seria
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serious heroic opera of the barouqe era
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lied
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german song from romantic period.
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song cycle
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a group of songs connected by a general idea or story, and sometimes also by musical unifying devices.
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program music
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a peice of instrumental music associated with a story or other extramusical idea.
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etude
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a piece of music desighned to aid technical study of a particular instrument
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character pieces
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a short romantic piano peice that portrays a particular mood.
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nocturne
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title for romantic miniature COMPISITION FOR PIANO
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bel canto opera
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term for early romantic opera, which featured bel campo singing.
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gesamtukunstwerk
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total work of art. wagners term for his music dramas.
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syphonic poem
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a piece of ochestral program usic in one long movement
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nationalism music
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music about a specific country. opposite of exoticism.
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scherzo
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dane bethoven used
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romantisism
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felling of music as aposed to forms. more grand.
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rubato
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taking liberty of rhythm and meter,
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thematic transformation
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a variation aplied to short poems in the romatasism era
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leitmotiv
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faugner uses it. motive that comes back to help organize.
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idea fixe
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fantasti. its a melody that continusly comes back.
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beethovven
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german, syphonys,influenced everyone else.
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schubert
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german, leid, influenced leid a lot
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robert schuman
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german, leid and character peices, also music cridict
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clara shuman
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german, piano, just kind of there.
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mendleson
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studied bach and brought him back.
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chopin
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polish, piano, good at piao
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liszt
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hungarian, piano, good at piano
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berlioz
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french, symphony, syphony fantastic. crazy. the witch story
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wagner
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german, opera, influenced everyone and a natzi
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tchakovsky
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russian, ballet, tussian nationalist
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mussorgsky
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russian, piano, rusian nationalist, dead children music.
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