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| a fast folk dance in which duple and triple meter alternate |
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| an ethnic group found throughout much of Eastern Europe |
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| it uses five notes instead of seven |
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| Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Mily Balakirev, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Musorgsky |
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| when music is used to reflect the national culture |
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| a term used for mature operas by Robert Wagner |
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| the festival in Bayreuth where Wagner performed his Ring cyle |
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| Wagner’s four-part musical drama that tells the tale of Der Ring des Nebelungen |
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| a singing play or musical comedy |
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| a short, one-movement composition designed to improve one or more aspects of a performer’s technique |
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| a concert of chamber music, usually for a solo performer |
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| people fawning over Liszt |
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| a fast Polish dance in triple meter with an accent on the second beat |
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| the pen name for Baroness Aurore Dudevant who wrote romantic novels |
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| overlaying the lowest-sounding strings across those of the middle register |
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| softens the dynamic level by shifting the posisition of the hammers relative to the strings (left) |
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| allows the strings to continue to sound after the performer has lifted his or her hand from the keys (right) |
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| musical interludes inserted within the performance |
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| the German orchestra that Mendelssohn conducted for 12 years from 1835-1847 |
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| an instruction to string players to strike the instrument with the wood of the bow |
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| a counterpoint with two reversible themes |
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| a chant from the medieval church/ for the dead |
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| a brass instrument with valves, borrowed from the military band |
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| an early form of the tuba |
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| a one-movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play, political event, or personal experience |
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| a one-movement work of programmatic content originally intended for the concert hall |
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| a one-movement work, usually in sonata-allegro form, that sums up in music the concept of an opera or play |
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| a symphony with the
usual three, four, or five movements, which depict a succession of scenes from an extra-musical story
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| a one-movement work, usually in sonata-allegro form, that sums up in music the concept of an opera or play |
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| a symphony with the usual three, four or five movements, which depict a succession of scenes from an extra-musical story |
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| instrumental music for an orchestra that doesn’t tell a story |
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| instrumental music for an orchestra that re-creates the emotions and events of an extra-musical source |
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| when the tune is the same but there’s variation |
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| when the tune is the same but the words change |
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| when the tune is the same but there’s variation |
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| a tightly stuctured group of individual songs that tell a story or treat a single theme |
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| a socail gathering for music and poetry that featured the songs and piano music of Franz Schubert |
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| a song for voice and piano accompaniment |
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| a talanted performer with exceptional skills |
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| a short piece with a descriptive title |
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| slowing and speeding up of music |
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