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.
   

Lesson:
- We learn that in romantic period they use different styles of playing a song, they use sonata from and other pieces, and we learn that they use this styles to emphasize the song to make it more lively and good to hear. And we learn that every composer use this kind of styles to make there music more perfectly to hear.