Romantic Era

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Program music

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The genre that evokes images and ideas became known as program music

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With literary or pictorial associations.

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Absolute music

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Linking sound to a narrative or an image, was a step backward from the potential of music to express things beyond words. Designed without intended literary or pictorial meanings.

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Strophic song form

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This form sets up a general atmosphere that accommodates all the stanzas, all sung to the same tune.

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Incidental music

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Usually consists of an overture and a series of piece performed between the act of a play and during important scenes.

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Leitmotif

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Recurring themes, that represent a person, place, or idea.

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Symphony

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Large work for orchestra, generally in three or four movement.

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Romantic era

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The Romantic era grew out of the social and political upheavals that followed the French Revolution in the last decade of the 1700s.

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

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Inspired hopes and visions to which artists responded with zeal. Motto of French Revolution.

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Industrial Revolution

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Brought with it the means to create more affordable and responsive musical instruments, as well as the technical improvements that strongly influenced the sound of Romantic music.

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Strophic form

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In which the same melody is repeated with every stanza, or strophe, of the poem; hymns, carols, as well as most folk and popular songs are strophic.

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Through - composed form

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Proceeds form beginnings to end without repetitions of whole sections.

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Lied

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Is a German - texted solo song, generally with piano accompaniment.

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Song Cycle

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Composers wrote song cycles that unified a group of songs by poems or theme.

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Mazurka

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Type of Polish folk dance in triple meter.

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Rubato

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"Robbed time," in which certain liberties are taken with the rhythm without upsetting the basic beat.