| A | B |
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| Ballet | Music and body movements combined |
| Clara Schumann | A successful woman composer |
| Etude | A work designed to master a technical difficulty |
| Exoticism | Instrumental work using melodies, rhythms, or instruments suggesting foreign lands |
| Nationalism | Use of folksongs, legends and other national material from the composer's homeland |
| Opera | Drama sung to an orchestral accompaniment |
| Program music | Instrumental music associated with a story, poem or idea |
| Through-Composed | Vocal form with new music for each stanza of a poem |
| Leitmotif | Short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought used by Wagner |
| Lied | Romantic art song with a German text |
| Nocturne | Slow, intimate composition for piano, associated with nighttime |
| Polonaise | Dance in triple meter which originated as a stately procession for the Polish nobility |
| Program Symphony | Instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea |
| Rubato | A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo |
| Strophic | Song form in which the music is repeated for each stanza |
| Symphonic Poem | One movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea |
