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Intro To Music
Test 3
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Music
Undergraduate 1
11/13/2007

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“Beautiful singing” 18th century singing style that emphasized the beauty and virtuosity of the voice.
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Bel Canto singing
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Setting of a well known poet’s work to music by a serious composer.
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Setting of a well known poet’s work to music by a serious composer.
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A virtuosic singing style, including rapid runs, elaborate ornamentation and extremely high pitches.
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Colaratura
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Studies or “exercises” based on specific pianistic techniques
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Etudes
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The term Belioz used for the melody representing the loved one in his Symphonie fantastique.
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Idee Fixe
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Character pieces of an improvisatory character
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Impromptu
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Reccuring melodic fragment or chord bearing dramatic or emotional significance, introduced by Wagner in dramas.
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Leitmotif
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German art songs
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Leider
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Piece expressing the “character” of night.
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Nocturnes
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Instrumental music that purports to tell a story or describe a scene, idea or event.
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Programmatic Music
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Multimovement orchestral work whose form is based on programmatic concepts.
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Program Symphony
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Mass for the dead
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Requiem
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Romantic technique of “robbing” from tempo at some points and “paying back” at others.
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Rubato
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“Joke” A movement, often the third, of a multimovement piece. The form is ABA, with a trio inserted between the scherzo and its repeat.
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Scherzo
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Set of songs by one composer, often using texts all by the same poet.
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Song cycle
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One-movement orchestral piece whose form is based on programmatic principles.
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Symphonic/Tone Poem
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Variation of thematic or melodic material for programmatic purposes. Sometimes called metamorphisis.
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Thematic Transformation
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Containing new music throughout
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Through-composed music
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Realism in opera
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Verisimo
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Arrangement of a piece so that it may be played by a different instrument or ensemble from that which it was written.
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