Aria: Aria, a lyrical solo song with accompaniment, a song in an opera or oratorio, sometimes used in lyrical instrumental music. Cantata: Oratorios are music with religious text as lyrics and instrumental accompaniment, but there are also very few secular oratorios that are religious. Concerto: A type of music developed during the Baroque period. It is usually a piece of music played by a solo instrument and an orchestra. Sometimes there are two to four solo instruments.

Etude: Etude originally refers to some short pieces of music composed for a certain performance technique. However, in the Romantic Era, there were also extremely difficult etudes written by composers and played in concerts.

Fugue: Fugue comes from the Latin fuga, which means escape. Fugue is an important form of polyphonic music. The same melody appears repeatedly, overlapping each other, or "escaping" each other.

March: A short tempo song composed for marches or parades.

Mass: Mass is a large-scale vocal work written with texts from the Catholic Mass as libretto.

Minuet: Originally a French dance, it began to develop into a part of art music in the seventeenth century. It is commonly seen in dance music of the Baroque period or the third movement of a symphony in the classical period.

Nocturne: Nocturne: Slow music with a rich romantic atmosphere. Most nocturnes are piano music.

Opera: Opera A drama set to music, in which music, lines and plot are all of equal importance. Four hundred years of opera art have given rise to different types: serious opera (Opera Seria), witty opera (Opera Buffa), bel canto opera (Bel Canto Opera), operetta (Operetta), German operetta (Singspiel), musical drama (Music) Drama) and French comedy opera (Opera Comique), etc.

Overture: Overture means "open" in French. It is the instrumental prelude at the beginning of opera or oratorio and other similar works. The Concert Overture (Concert Overture) was developed during the Romantic Period and is an independent orchestral work.

Partita: Suite was originally a musical form of theme and variations, which evolved into the meaning of suite during the Baroque period.

Plainsong: plain song (see Gregorian Chant). Polyphony: Polyphonic music is a combination of two or more independent voices.

Prelude: Prelude was used as the prelude to each act of an opera or ballet during the Romantic Period, sometimes replacing the overture. It is also an independent piece of music without a clear form, usually a very short piano piece.

Programme Music: Title music is an instrumental piece that describes a title or even a story with pure music.

Recitative: Singing speech in an opera or oratorio. Compared with arias, recitatives emphasize narrative and music is only ancillary. equiem: Requiem is a Catholic liturgical mass for the funeral of the deceased.

Rhapsody: A free-form type of music in the Romantic period, often written as an instrumental piece based on an existing melody.

Rondo: Rondo is a light-paced musical form in the classical period. The main phrases appear alternately with other phrases. Rondos mostly appear in the final movement of a concerto or sonata, but they also appear as independent pieces.

Scherzo: Scherzo means joke in Italian. Developed by Beethoven in the 19th century, it replaced the Minuet.

Serenade: Serenade means night music. A multi-movement instrumental piece of music often written for celebrations in the 18th century.

Sonata: Sonata, the Italian word for sound, is different from the sound of singing. A sonata is music written specifically for a specific instrument. Except for piano sonatas, most sonatas have piano accompaniment, but there are also Trio Sonatas in the Baroque period that were written for three instruments (actually for four people, but the accompanist is not included) ).

Variation: A series of variations on the same theme. In each variation, the same melody will appear with different harmonies, rhythms, speeds, added and subtracted notes, and even reverse strumming?