Nineteenth-century melodies continue to be tuneful and are p…
Nineteenth-century melodies continue to be tuneful and are perhaps even more songlike than classical style melodies, although they may contain wider leaps. They still use sequences, which are often as a part of ___________ from one key to another. Melodies use more ____________ (or “colorful”) pitches from outside the home key and scale of composition. Along with the continuing emphasis on tuneful melodies comes predominantly ____________ textures.
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The wider nineteenth-century interest in _______ and in exploring connections between all of the arts led to musical scores with more poetic or prose instructions from the __________. It also led to more program music, which as you will recall, is instrumental music that represents something “extra musical,” that is, something outside of music itself, such as nature, a literary text, or apainting. Nineteenth-century critics and philosophers sustained expansive debates about ways in which listeners might hear music as related to the extra musical. ____________, from the characteristic title to a narrative attached to a musical score, guided composers and listeners as they composed and heard musical forms.
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