Beethoven key vocab

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Sonata

Piece for a solo instrument

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Virtuoso

Very difficult; need to be highly skilled to play it

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Movements

Sections

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Tempo

Speed

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Classical

Period of music (1750-1830)

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Romantic

Period of music (1830-1900s)

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Crescendo

Get louder

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Fortepiano

Early version of a piano

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Homophonic

Chordal texture

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Grave

Very slow tempo, solemn

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Descending chromatic

Going down by semitones

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Scalic

Scale

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Sforzando

Suddenly loud to immediately soft

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Sequence

Repeated moving (in pitch) pattern

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Dominant

Fifth note of a scale

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Trills

Notes next to eachother repeated quickly

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Octaves

Notes an eighth apart

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Broken chord

Playing notes in a chord one after another

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Acciaccatura

Quick flick notes

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Melody dominated homophony

Melody and accompaniment