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Music
Undergraduate 3
05/10/2011

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tone poem
Definition
piece for orchestra, paints a picture or tells a story
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song
Definition
one voice with accompaniment
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symphony
Definition
a piece for full orchestra in 4 movements
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cantata
Definition
many sections with many combinations of voices
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toccata
Definition
touch piece; keyboard piece
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fugue
Definition
complicated Baroque form
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prelude
Definition
short piece introducing a long piece
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concerto
Definition
small group pitted against a large group
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suite
Definition
set of dances
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oratorio
Definition

musical drama with orchestra and voices;

without sets, costumes, and acting

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opera
Definition
musical drama with sets, costumes, acting, full orchestra, everything sung
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fantasia
Definition
Renaissance jazz; sounds as if improvised
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motet
Definition
sacred, vocal, polyphonic piece
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madrigal
Definition
secular, vocal, polyphonic piece
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Requiem
Definition
mass for the dead
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Mass
Definition
official form of worship in the Catholic church
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chant
Definition
one melody; sung by monks; no harmony
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primitivism
Definition

emphasis on mechanical, motor-like rhythm

 

*Stravinsky's Dance of the Adolescents*

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expressionism
Definition

emphasis on excess of emotion by angular melody, dissonant harmony, unusual rhythm, odd use of instruments, distorted form.

 

vocal technique: "sprectstimme" <--talk/sing combo

 

 

*Shoenberg's Prayer to Pierre*

Term
nationalism
Definition

the use of national melodies and styles in classical music

 

*Copland's Hoedown from RODEO*

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aleatory
Definition

music of random sounds and actions inwhich composer avoids control of all aspects of the music

 

*Cage's Totem Ancestor*

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JOHN CAGE
Definition

All sound is music (4'33")

 

lead to Golden Gate playing on the bridge cables, Construction Symphony

 

relied on chance; aleatory; zen

 

Totem Ancestor; prepared piano

Term
sound mass
Definition
music inwhich texture is the main element
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elements of music
Definition

MELODY: a series of varied pitches w. varied rhythms

HARMONY:tones sounding together

RHYTHM:underlying pulse of the music

TEXTURE: the instruments used

FORM: underlying structure of the music

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minimalism
Definition

music with an unremitting pulse and fast, virtuosic passages, & without message, tension, or contrast, based on the slow development of one melodic or rhythmic idea

 

*Glass's Dance 5*

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neo-romanticism
Definition

music which incorporates 20th century styles but returns to forms and genres used in past eras, particularly the Romantic era: emphasis on melody and a sense of tonality

 

*Larry Bell's Invention #11*

Term
musical
Definition
opera with spoken words
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polytonality
Definition
use of several keys at once
Term
WAGNER
Definition

egomaniac, liar, cheat, used people, only good to Cosima

 

1st to stretch tonality <soap operas>

 

brought excessive emotion to romanticism, overdid it

 

*4opera cycle RING OF THE NEBELUNGS*

Term
sonata
Definition
3 part piece for 1 instrument
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