| A | B |
| Classical music | absolute |
| Romantic Music | progrommatic |
| Mazurka | triple meter folk like accent created by Chopin |
| Polonaise | a Polish dance in triple meter |
| Nocturne | evokes nightime or evening |
| Etude | short study piece that isolates technical elements to help the student master these |
| lieder | plural of the German word for song, composed for voice and the piano |
| Song Cycle | sets of lieders, often represent human emotions |
| art songs | single movement pieces for recitals for the middle class |
| Clara Schumann | developed solo piano recital |
| The Mighty Five | Russian Romantic Composers |
| Stephen Foster | American influenced by German lieders |
| travel journals | captured the spirit of new places and allowed the public to "see" what the composers were capturing |
| Hegel | philosopher who established history as a university discipline |
| Herder | his collection of folk artifacts encouraged the rise in folk traditions in music |
| volk | German word for people |
| Rousseau | The Social Contract and concept of "nature of the unseen" |
| Richter | coined term romanticism |
| Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsodies |
| Wagner | music drama Gesamtkunstwer |