TEST 3 Flashcards
Romanticism
Literature term, provokes emotion
Etude
Study meant to improve technique
Song cycle
Group of songs with a common theme.
Symphonic poems
A large work for an orchestra not divided up into movements
Nocturne
Night music
Lieder
German art song
Through composed
The music changes while the lyrics change
Strophic
Music stays the same while lyrics change
Total work of art is…
A concept created by Wagner who wanted German opera to be good from its orchestra to its singing, opposed Italian opera who just focused only on singing
Expressionism
A German movement in the arts which sought to express the most extreme of human feeling by divorcing art from everyday literalness
Experimental
the word that best describes the activities of modernists (20th century) who were dealing with “sound for sound’s sake”
Avant-garde
French military term meaning “first into battle”
Atonality
the absence of a key center in music
Wagner
the composer who coined the term “total work of art”
Minimalism (post modern)
the term that was used to describe the simple melodies and harmonies of post-modern music
Neoclassic
a return to the style and form of pre-Romantic music but using 20th-century rhythms and harmonic style
Character piece
a short romantic piece that portrays some definite mood
The 19th century was the golden age for this genre
opera
Leitmotiv
a guiding musical motive associated with a person, thing, or idea
Chromaticism
a musical style employing all of many of the notes on a keyboard
Musique concrete
music composed with natural sounds recorded electronically
Industrial
this revolution was one of the many factors contributing to the direction fine art music would make in the 20th century
Impressionism
a French movement in the arts that was considered “non-threatening” and dealt with color and light
Nationalism
the incorporation of national folk music into concert pieces, songs and operas
