3rd Quarter Review (Mapeh)

• Piano:

  • Can produce both soft and loud sounds unlike the harpsichord and the organ
• Program Music:

  • Conveys images or scenes, tells a short story without text or lyrics, and expresses imaginative ideas
• Symphonic Poem:

  • An orchestral piece that portrays a story or has a literary or artistic background
• String Instruments:

  • Grew in number to balance the sound from the other group of instruments
• Woodwind Instruments:

  • Composers added the flute, clarinet, oboe, English horn, and piccolo
• Brass-Percussion Instruments:

  • Timpani is always used in the orchestra
• Niccolo Paganini:

  • Became the famous violin virtuoso in the world
• Frederic Chopin:

  • Known as the "Poet of the Piano," a world-renowned pianist and composer
• Ballade:

  • A verse form usually consisting of three stanzas of eight or ten lines
• Etude:

  • A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique
• Mazurka:

  • A Polish dance
• Nocturne:

  • An instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood
• Polonaise:

  • A stately, march-like Polish dance or promenade
• Prelude:

  • An introductory performance, event, or aria
• Waltz:

  • A piece of music for this dance
• Sonata:

  • A composition for one or solo instruments
• Franz Liszt:

  • Known as the virtuoso pianist and composer, one of the busiest musicians during the Romantic Period
• Robert Schumann:

  • A composer who considered himself as the heir to the original creative tradition of Beethoven and Schubert
• Hector Berlioz:

  • At a young age, he learned to play guitar and flute
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

  • Known for his ballet music
• Camille Saint-Saens:

  • Considered a composer who creates elegant, neat, and polished music