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| Late-nineteenth-century movement that arose in France; the Impressionists were the first to reject photographic realism in painting, instead trying to re-create the impression that an object produces upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment. |
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| The composers of this era attempted to describe scenes and evoke moods by the use of rich harmonies and a wide palette of timbre. |
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| A term used to describe music that exhibits no obvious repetitions or overt musical form from beginning to end. |
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| Thematic transformation is a technique of where a leitmotif, or theme, is developed by changing the theme by using Permutation, Augmentation, Diminution, and Fragmentation. |
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| Italian for "robbed," in musical notation, an expression mark indicating that the performer may take,or steal,great liberties with the tempo. |
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| A peice of instrumental music,usually for symphony orchestra,that seeks to recreate in sound the events and emotions portrayed in some extra musical source:a story,a play,an historical event,an encounter with nature,or even a painting. |
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| Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. |
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Literally a “fixed idea,” but more specifically an obsessive musical theme as first used in Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique”.
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