Overview + Programme Music Flashcards
What is distinctive about Romantic Music?
Music is highly expressive and conveys emotion. Often intense and dramatic.
What did romantic music focus on?
focused on expression within music. Composers sought to evoke particular emotions within their music and to conjure particular images, moods, story lines and feelings within the music.
What is programme music?
Music that is purposefully meant to evoke or convey images and tell a story
What is Concert Overtures?
a type of Programme music; it was usually played before an opera or concert to set the mood or scene, making you envisage the scenery.
Tone Poem
piece of orchestral music that is evoking the feelings or story portrayed in a poem
German Leid
Generally, any type of German song
Waltz
form of dance with usually ¾ tempo
Song Cycles
form of vocal music with groups of complete songs (album)
March
a strong and steady percussive beat reminiscent of military field drums
Symphony movements
fast, slow, medium, fast
