Music, the Listener's Art

accent Allegro aria Bach baroque music bass beat Beethoven beginning brilliant cadence cadential caesura cantus firmus chamber music choral chord classic music color composer concertato concerto consonance contrapuntal contrast counterstatement create dance dissonance dramatic effect eighteenth century emotional entire example expressionism expressive values French fugue half steps harmonic Haydn hear home key idea imitation important impression impressionism instruments intervals Italian keyboard leading-tone listener major manner medieval music melodic lines ment minor mood motet motives move Mozart nineteenth century opera opera buffa orchestral organum overture pace perfect fifth performance period phases of movement piano piece plain song points of arrival polyphonic Prelude principal procedure quality of movement quality of sound Quartet recitative Renaissance music represents rhythm rhythmic romantic music romanticism scale sense seventeenth solo sonata form sonority strong style Symphony techniques tempo texture theme tonal center tone tone-row tonic triad Tristan variation voices Wagner