The Language of Music

Aaron Copland Allegro analysis Andante anguish augmented fourth Bach Bach's basic term bass Beethoven's Britten Cellos chord chromatic chromatic scale composer conception context creative imagination death Debussy despair dominant Don Giovanni effect elements Eroica example experience F sharp fact falling feeling Fifth Symphony final flat function Funeral March G minor grief Handel harmonic series heroic inspiration joyful listener madrigal Mahler main theme major and minor melodic minor second minor seventh minor sixth minor system minor third Moderate tempo moderato molto movement Mozart musical language natural obsessive opening theme opera painful Pathétique Symphony patterns phrase piano piece of music pitch pleasure purely rhythm rhythmic impulse rising scale Scherzo Schubert semitonal sense Slow song sound Stravinsky Strings Tchaikovsky's technique terms of musical texture tion tonal tensions tone-colour tonic transformation triad Tristan trumpet tune unconscious Vaughan Williams Verdi Violins Wagner Woodwind words