Romantic period

an interest in a culture outside of one's own native culture

• Etude

• Appropriation

• Exoticism

• Nocturne

German for song. The term for German art songs that consisted of singing (the use of poems) with piano accompaniment. The intimate link between words and music.

• Leitmotif

• Nocturne

• Etude

• Lieder

Leading motives”. Music represents a specific character or person.

• Leitmotif

• Motifs

• Idee

a lighter opera with a humorous or romantic nature that pokes fun at the conventions of serious opera, while exploiting the musical and dramatic techniques they seek to ridicule. 

• Opera

• Operretta

• Grand opera

a piece of music that explores a particular 

technique, such as a scale or an arpeggio. 

• Etude

• Idee fixe

• Arpeggion

Nocturne

• night music

• Dance music

• Love music

composed for a programmatic idea. An example is Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique

• Symphone

• Program symphony

• symphony orchestra

emphasized the visual grandeur and spectacle of battles, storms, fires, shipwrecks, and murders with festive wedding scenes and triumphal marches performed with song and dance and accompanied by an orchestra.

• Grand opening

• Grand opera

• Grand orchestra

a fixed musical idea or theme that is heard in various movements of a symphony. 

• Idee fixe

• You stupid

• Or dumb

a short opera that included passages of spoken dialogue. The stories were often serious or tragic. An example is Bizet's Carmen.

• Opera opening

• Poetry

• Opera comique