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In opera music, instead of speaking the lines to tell the story, a single individual would sing a melodic line that follows the inflections and rhythms of speech. This is known as a _______________.

___________ are a family of extraordinary musicians and scholars of music who continue to perform worldwide, but can be heard in New Orleans when they are not on the road. 

Composer Arnold Schoenberg invented a new style of singing called ____________ which is a kind of half-singing, half-speaking where the singer only approximates singing exact pitches.

Erlkönig (Elf King) features ___________________ which is music that sounds out its meaning. In this art song, Schubert takes the changing expressive elements of the lyrics such as a galloping horse, steady reassuring tones of the father, sweet enticements of the Elf King, increasingly frantic cries of the boy, and provides each with characteristic music.

Composers during the 20th century invented their own instruments while others electronically transformed instrumental sounds. 

Johannes Brahms is best known for composing ___________ which is music without storytelling intent, written for the sake of the music itself.

Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is an example of a ___________ which is a one-movement program piece written for orchestra that portrays images of a place, story, novel, landscape, or non-musical source or image.

When piano players like Elton John, Lady Gaga, and Alicia Keys perform, the piano is turned sideways to be parallel with the line of the stage. Franz Liszt was the first composer to do this so the audience could view his facial expressions and the way his fingers interacted with the keys.

A(n) _______________ brings together poetry and music and is usually written for solo voice and piano accompaniment.

___________, __________, and ___________ were prominent in literature, art, and music during the Romantic era.