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| Composer. Best known for “The Moldau” and the opera “the bartered Bride” |
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| One-movement, self-contained musical work intended for performance in the concert hall. |
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| prolific composer best known for his last three symphonies (no.4,5,and 6, orchestral works including Romeo and Juliet,three ballets-Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty,and the Nutcracker, and eleven operas including Queen of Spades |
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| Music written to accompany a play. |
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| Two players playing a piano at the same time. |
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| Three notes fitted into the time in which only two of those notes would normally fit. |
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| “Beautiful song.” A vocal technique emphasizing beauty and purity of tone and agility on executing ornamental details. |
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| “Realism.” An italian operatic point of view favoring realistic subjects taken from everyday, often lower class, life. |
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| “Leading motive.” A musical motive representing a particular charactor, object,idea or emotional state. Used espesially in Richard Wagners operas. |
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| Richard Wagners term for his operas. |
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| A late nineteenth century artistic movement that sought to capture the visual impression rather than the literal reality of the subject. Also, in music, a style belonging primarily to Debussy, characterized by an emphasis on mood and atmosphere, sensuos tone colors, elegance, and beauty of sound. |
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| A subtle French poetic style from the late nineteenth century that stressed the sound and color of the words and suggested rather than clearly outlined the maening or story behind the text. |
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| A rapid sliding up or down the scale. |
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| In music of the early twentieth century, the philosophy that musical composition should be approached with objectivity and restraint. Neoclassical composers were attracted to the textures and forms of the Baroque and Classical periods. |
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