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Details Title: Music Appreciation Description: Chapter 12 - Romanticism Listening to Music Total Flash Cards: 16 Created: 04/27/2004 10:35:58	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term absolute music Definition symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and other instrumental music without extramusical or programmatic references. Term art song Definition piece for solo voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic aspirations Term character piece Definition a brief instrumental work seeking to capture a single mood Term concert overture Definition indipendent one-movement work of programmatic content originally intended for the concert hall Term cross stringing Definition stings of the lowest keys ride up over those of the middle register, thereby producting a richer, more homogenous sound. Term incidental music Definition Music to be inserted between the acts or during important scenes of a play to add an extra dimension to the drama Term nationalism Definition flood of national anthems, native dances, military marches, protest songs, and victory symphonies gave musical voice to the rising tide of nationalism Term overture Definition one movement work, usually in sonata-allegro form, which foretells in music the essential dramatic events that will follow in an opera or play. Term pentatonic scale Definition a five note scale found often in folk music and non-Western music Term piano transcription Definition transformation and reduction of an orchestral score, and a piece of orchestral music, onto the great staff for playing at the piano. Term program music Definition instrumental music, usually for a symphony orchestra, that seeks to recreate in sound the events and emotions portrayed in some extramusical source: a story, play, historical event, or a painting. Term program symphony Definition symphony with the usual three, four, or five movements, but now the individual movements together tell or depict a succession of specific events or scenes drawn from some extramusical work or story. Term rubato Definition in musical notation, a tempo mark indicating that the performer may take, steal, great liberties with the tempo. Term soft pedal Definition allowed the instrument to play a softer dynamic by shifting the position of the keyboard. Term sustaining pedal Definition enables the strings to continue to sound while others were being struck Term symphonic poem; tone poem Definition one-movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play, political occurance etc.