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Music 100.04
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11/18/2009
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Aleatory
 Definition
Chance Music
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Atonality
 Definition
Absence of tonality or key
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Chamber Music
 Definition
private musical performances
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Gesamtkunstwerk
 Definition
the union of all the arts -Opera
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Idee Fixe/leitmotif
 Definition
little melody that represents a person event or thing
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Incidental Music
 Definition
background music for a play/film score
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Librettist
 Definition
person who writes the book for the opera
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Polytonality
 Definition
2 or more at one time
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Requiem
 Definition
Funeral Mass
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Rondo Form
 Definition
ABACAD
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Serialism
 Definition
using the 12-tone system to organize
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Song Cycle
 Definition
a set of Art Songs
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Verismo
 Definition
True to life-opera about regular ppl
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Sprechstimme
 Definition
half way btn speakingn and singing
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Strophic
 Definition
A A'A''A'''
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Symphonic Poem
 Definition
one movement program music for orchestra
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symphony
 Definition
a long composition
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theme and variation form
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A1A2A3
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Through composed form
 Definition
no repetition--A
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Concerto
 Definition
3 movement work for instrumental soloist and orchestra