Music

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romanticism

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a cultural movement that stressed emotion, imagination, and individuality.

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program music

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Program music or programme music is a type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to the audience in the form of program notes, inviting imaginative correlations with the music

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art song

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a song written to be sung in recital, typically with piano accompaniment and often set to a poem.

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“Salon” Concert

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: instrumental music of a light, pleasing, and often sentimental character suitable for the drawing room rather than the concert hall.

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Etude

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a short musical composition, typically for one instrument, designed as an exercise to improve the technique or demonstrate the skill of the player.

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Prelude

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musical composition, usually brief, that is generally played as an introduction to another, larger musical piece

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Incidental Music

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music used in a film or play as a background to create or enhance a particular atmosphere.

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Leit motif

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a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.

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Noise

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, noise is variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound

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Polyrhythm

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a rhythm that makes use of two or more different rhythms simultaneously

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Atonality

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Atonal music is a generalizing term used to

define music that seems to lack a clear tonal center

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“Le Sacre du Printemps” (The Rite of Spring)

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is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

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Impressionism

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a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.

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Expressionism

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a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

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Claude Monet

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Claude Debussy

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Arnold Schoenberg

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John Cage/Silence

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Aleatoric Music

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is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s).

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Jazz

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a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm

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Call and Response

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is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first.

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Blues

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melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence.

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Scat Singing

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improvised jazz singing in which the voice is used in imitation of an instrument.

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Bebop

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a type of jazz originating in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony and rhythms