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| symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and other instrumental music without extramusical or programmatic references. |
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| piece for solo voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic aspirations |
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| a brief instrumental work seeking to capture a single mood |
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| indipendent one-movement work of programmatic content originally intended for the concert hall |
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| stings of the lowest keys ride up over those of the middle register, thereby producting a richer, more homogenous sound. |
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| Music to be inserted between the acts or during important scenes of a play to add an extra dimension to the drama |
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| flood of national anthems, native dances, military marches, protest songs, and victory symphonies gave musical voice to the rising tide of nationalism |
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| one movement work, usually in sonata-allegro form, which foretells in music the essential dramatic events that will follow in an opera or play. |
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| a five note scale found often in folk music and non-Western music |
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| transformation and reduction of an orchestral score, and a piece of orchestral music, onto the great staff for playing at the piano. |
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| instrumental music, usually for a symphony orchestra, that seeks to recreate in sound the events and emotions portrayed in some extramusical source: a story, play, historical event, or a painting. |
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| symphony with the usual three, four, or five movements, but now the individual movements together tell or depict a succession of specific events or scenes drawn from some extramusical work or story. |
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| in musical notation, a tempo mark indicating that the performer may take, steal, great liberties with the tempo. |
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| allowed the instrument to play a softer dynamic by shifting the position of the keyboard. |
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| enables the strings to continue to sound while others were being struck |
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| symphonic poem; tone poem |
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| one-movement work for orchestra that gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play, political occurance etc. |
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