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the same melody is repeated with every stanza, 2 strophes treated identically.
strophic form
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proceeds from beginning to end, without repetition of whole sections.
through-composed
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the same melody may be repeated for two or three stanzas, with new material introduced when the poem requires it, generally at the climax.
modified-strophic form
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German-texted solo vocal song with piano accompaniment.
Lied (Lieder)
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groups of Lieder that were unified by a narrative thread or descriptive theme.
song cycle
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instrumental music that has literary or pictorial associations provided by the composer.
program music
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pure music, which consists of musical patterns that have no literary or pictorial meanings.
absolute music
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a multi-movement orchestral work
program symphony
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a one-movement programmatic work with contrasting sections to develop a poetic idea, suggest a scene, or create a mood.
symphonic poem
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the symphony's recurrent theme
idee fixe (fixed idea)
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a genre that integrated theater and music completely and did away with the concept of separate arias, duets, ensembles and choruses.
music drama
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leading motives that recur through a work and are also subject to variation and development.
leitmotifs
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a movement developed by painters who tried to capture their "first impression" of a subject through varies treatments of light and color.
Impressionism
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the literary response to Impressionism in which writings are suggestive of images and ideas rather than literally descriptive.
Symbolism
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a scale derived from various non-Western musics and built entirely of whole-tone intervals.
whole- tone scales
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composed mostly of percussion instruments including gongs, chimes and drums during Impressionism.
gamelan orchestra
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German response to French Impressionism, in music, composers such as Schoenberg and Webern explored new harmonic systems and the extreme registers of instruments.
Expressionism
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sought to revive balance and objectivity in the arts by returning to formal structures of the past.
Neoclassicism
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devised by Schoenberg; strict, based on and unified by the tone row.
serialism (12-tone method)
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an arrangement of 12 chromatic tones
tone row
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formal above the expressive
formalism
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slight speeding up or slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist or the conductor
tempo rubato
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a religious chant melody
Dies irae
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The Moldau
- programmatic symphonic/tone poem
- composer: Smetana
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Erlking
- through-composed form Lied
- composer: Schubert
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“La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto
- strophic opera aria
- composer: Verdi
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Violin Sonata in A minor, II
- genre: sonata
- composer: Beach
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