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| Johann Strauss | known as the waltz King |
| The Romantic Period | time period from 1825-1900 |
| Modulation | changing of keys |
| rubato | speed changes according to emotion |
| telegraph | invented by Samuel Morse |
| telephone | invented by ALexander Graham Bell |
| phonograph | invented by Thomas Edison |
| The Blue Danube | waltz composed by Strauss |
| Franz Schubert | developed the "Art Song" |
| strophic | means that each stanza is sung to the same melody |
| Unfinished Symphony | Schubert's most famous symphonic work. |
| Ave Maria | an example of a German Leider |
| German Leider | a German Art song made popular by Schubert |
| Felix Mendelssohn | wrote the famous "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| Fanny Mendelssohn | Wrote the famous piece "Song without Words" |
| Robert Schumann | established the outstanding msic newspaper, "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik" |
| Clara Schumann | wife of RObert Schumann, who was a piano virtuoso, and composer |
| Johannes Brahms | Known as one of the "big three" composers of German birth, besides Bach and Beethoven |
| Frederick Chopin | known as the "poet of the piano" |
| George Sand | real name was Mme. Aurore Dudevant, a writer who was in love with Chopin |
| Franz Liszt | wrote over 700 works for the Piano, and was a piano virtuoso |
| symphonic Tone Poem | is a work for orchestra, of symphonic size, but with only one movement |
| Rhapsody | free form type composition where several themes, which are generally based on folk music, are put together in a manner that has no set pattern or tempo |
| Guiseppe Verdi | famous for his opera writings, such as the opera "Aida" |
| Giacomo Puccini | another famous composer of opera, such as Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, and Tosca |
| Richard Wagner | famous for his operatic compositions, such as Die Walkure, The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, and Tristan and Isolde. |
| libretto | means little book in Italian, contains all of the words to an opera |
| leit motiv | a short descriptive musical idea that usually described a character in an opera |
| Amitcare Ponchielli | famous composer of opera, who wrote, "Dance of the Hours" |
| George Bizet | composer from France, who wrote the opera "Carmen" |
| "La Scala" | the most famous opera house in the world, located in Italy |
