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Music Appreciation
Chapter 12 - Romanticism Listening to Music
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04/27/2004

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absolute music
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symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and other instrumental music without extramusical or programmatic references.
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art song
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piece for solo voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic aspirations
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character piece
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a brief instrumental work seeking to capture a single mood
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concert overture
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indipendent one-movement work of programmatic content originally intended for the concert hall
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cross stringing
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stings of the lowest keys ride up over those of the middle register, thereby producting a richer, more homogenous sound.
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incidental music
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Music to be inserted between the acts or during important scenes of a play to add an extra dimension to the drama
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nationalism
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flood of national anthems, native dances, military marches, protest songs, and victory symphonies gave musical voice to the rising tide of nationalism
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overture
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one movement work, usually in sonata-allegro form, which foretells in music the essential dramatic events that will follow in an opera or play.
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pentatonic scale
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a five note scale found often in folk music and non-Western music
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piano transcription
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transformation and reduction of an orchestral score, and a piece of orchestral music, onto the great staff for playing at the piano.
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program music
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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.
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program symphony
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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.
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rubato
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in musical notation, a tempo mark indicating that the performer may take, steal, great liberties with the tempo.
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soft pedal
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allowed the instrument to play a softer dynamic by shifting the position of the keyboard.
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sustaining pedal
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enables the strings to continue to sound while others were being struck
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symphonic poem; tone poem
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one-movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play, political occurance etc.
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