Week 5: Romantic Period

A. MUSIC FOR INSTRUMENTS:

1. Sonata Form is a large-scale musical structure used widely since the middle of the 18th century (the early classical period).
2. Character Pieces is a literal translation of the German charakterstuck, a term, not very precisely defined , used for a broad range of 19th century piano music based on a single idea or program.
3. Rhapsody in music is one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free- flowing in, structure, feature a range of highly contrasted moods, color and tonality.
4. Etudes is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill.
5. Symphonic Poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section ( a movement) in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another (non-musical) source is illustrated or evoked.