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Program music |
The genre that evokes images and ideas became known as program music |
With literary or pictorial associations. |
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Absolute music |
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 |
This form sets up a general atmosphere that accommodates all the stanzas, all sung to the same tune. |
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Incidental music |
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 |
Recurring themes, that represent a person, place, or idea. |
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Symphony |
Large work for orchestra, generally in three or four movement. |
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Romantic era |
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 |
Inspired hopes and visions to which artists responded with zeal. Motto of French Revolution. |
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Industrial Revolution |
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 |
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 |
Proceeds form beginnings to end without repetitions of whole sections. |
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Lied |
Is a German - texted solo song, generally with piano accompaniment. |
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Song Cycle |
Composers wrote song cycles that unified a group of songs by poems or theme. |
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Mazurka |
Type of Polish folk dance in triple meter. |
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Rubato |
"Robbed time," in which certain liberties are taken with the rhythm without upsetting the basic beat. |
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