(lied) In music, a lyric song with melody performed by a singer and instrumental accompaniment usually provided by piano; made popular by Schubert in the nineteenth century.
Faustian
[FAU-stee-uhn] Resembling the character Faust in Goethe's most famous work, in being spiritually tormented, insatiable for knowledge and experience, or willing to pay any price, including personal and spiritual integrity, to gain a desired end.
idée fixe
[ee-DAY FEEX] French, "fixed idea"; in music, a recurring musical theme that is associated with a person or a concept.
Romanticism
An intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that began in the late eighteenth century as a reaction to Neoclassicism and that stressed the emotional, mysterious, and imaginative side of human behavior and the unruly side of nature.
Sturm und Drang
[STOORM oont drahng] German, "Storm and Stress"; a German literary movement of the 1770s that focused on themes of action, emotionalism, and the individual's revolt against the conventions of society.
Sublime
[suh-BLIME] In Romanticism, the term used to describe nature as a terrifying and awesome force full of violence and power.
