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Romantic Terms Flashcards

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Exoticism in Music

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Fascination with foreign lands and culture, through melody, harmony, rhythm and orchestration

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Nationalism in Music

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Patriotism expressed through music influenced by historical events, folk songs, dance, myths, rhythms and landscapes

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Program Music

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Descriptive titles identifying the connection with instrumental music

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Romanticism

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Lied

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Musical setting of a German poem, for solo voice generally with piano accompaniment

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Through Composed / Durchkomponiert

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Chromaticism

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Extensive use of notes outside the prevailing key signature

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Polonaise

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Polish dance in triple meter

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Rubato

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Rhythmic flexibility speeding up or slowing down

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Cloches

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Pitched percussion instrument rings when struck with a hammer or mallet

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Col Legno

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Players tap on the strings with the wooden parts of their bows

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Dies Irae

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Monophonic chant melody associated with funeral services

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Idee Fixe

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Recurring theme that unifies music in a multi movement composition in symphony fantastique - it represents the beloved

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Ophicleide

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Obsolute brass instrument preceding the tuba

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Portamento

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A technique of sliding smoothly from one note to the next; originally a vocal technique

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Aria

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Solo song heard in an opera, oratorio or cantata

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Habanera

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Cuban dance song in 2/4, with a rhythmic motive often used as an obstinato

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Prelude in Opera

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Orchestral work serving as an introduction to an opera

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Recitative

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Vocal passage of narrative text that is sung with natural rhythms of speech

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Pentatonic Scale

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Scale consisting of five different pitches common in European and Asian cultures

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Verismo

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Opera style that became popular in Italy. Story lines project a gritty realism which usually culminates in a violent ending. Puccini mastered this style.

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Whole Tone Scale

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Non-traditional scale with six different pitches all spaced a whole tone apart

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