Aleatory
Chance Music
Atonality
Absence of tonality or key
Chamber Music
private musical performances
Gesamtkunstwerk
the union of all the arts -Opera
Idee Fixe/leitmotif
little melody that represents a person event or thing
Incidental Music
background music for a play/film score
Librettist
person who writes the book for the opera
Polytonality
2 or more at one time
Requiem
Funeral Mass
Rondo Form
ABACAD
Serialism
using the 12-tone system to organize
Song Cycle
a set of Art Songs
Verismo
True to life-opera about regular ppl
Sprechstimme
half way btn speakingn and singing
Strophic
A A’A”A”’
Symphonic Poem
one movement program music for orchestra
symphony
a long composition
theme and variation form
A1A2A3
Through composed form
no repetition–A
Concerto
3 movement work for instrumental soloist and orchestra