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Enlightenment |
A movement in 19th century dedicated to raising the level of general education by combating superstition and inherited prejudiced, and by placing human betterment above preoccupation with the supernatural |
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Risorgimento |
Ideological and literary movement that helped to arouse the national consciousness of the Italians, led to a series of political events tat freed the Italian states from foreign domination and united them politically |
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Modernism |
Philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that lead to new ways of composition |
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Impressionism |
Term borrowed from art in 1880, immediate effect of hearing, seeing or feeling on the mind, concerned with representation of landscape or natural phenomena, particularly water and light imagery through subtle textures and instrumental colour, described as "sound-painting), conveying moods and emotions aroused by subjects rather than a detailed tone-picture |
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Symbolism |
Musical elements may be in some way connected to extra-musical phenomena: the words of a poem, a natural object, or a person or emotional state |
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Empfindsamer Stil |
"Sensitive style", intended to express "true and natural" feelings and featuring sudden contrasts of mood |
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Sturm and Drang |
Term applied to period, roughly 1760-80 in German literature and music, when emotionalism was at height, especially applied to works composed by Haydn, particularly symphonies and string quartets |
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Baroque |
A period in which harmonic complexity grew alongside emphasis on contrast |
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Romanticism |
A movement in cultural history (19th century), only through sensitivity to poetry and attainment to the inner truths of the emotions will a composer come to greatness, to genius |
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Exoticism |
The evocation/allusion of a place, people or social milieu that is (or is perceived or imagined to be) profoundly different from accepted local norms in its attitudes, customs and morals |
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Nationalism |
Refers to the use of musical ideas or motifs that are identified with a specific country, region, or ethnicity, such as folk tunes and melodies, rhythms, and harmonies inspired by them |
