Test III Flashcards
(12 cards)
Program Music
instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene.
Nationalism
when romantic composers deliberately created music with a specific national identity, using the folksongs, dances, legends, and history of their homelands
Art Song
A composition for solo voice and piano.
Song Cycle
unified by a story line that runs through the poems, or by musical ideas linking the songs.
Nocturne
A night piece, that’s a slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano.
Etude
A study piece designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties.
Polonaise
A piece in triple meter, originated as a stately processional dance for the Polish nobility.
Tone Poem (Symphonic Poem)
A one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on literary or pictorial ideas.
Symphony
Orchestral composition, usually in four movements, typically lasting between 20 and 45 minutes, exploiting the expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the orchestra.
Opera
Drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment, usu- ally a large-scale composition employing vocal soloists, cho- rus, orchestra, costumes, and scenery.
Concerto
An extended composition for instrumental soloist &
orchestra, usually in three movements: (1) fast, (2) slow, (3) fast.
Program
The nonmusical is usually specified by a title or by explanatory comments
