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Appreciation of Music
Exam 2
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Music
Undergraduate 2
10/26/2010

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A Capella
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unaccompanied vocal music

-created in Sistine Chapel where instruments were forbidden to accompany the singers

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Aria
Definition
An elaborate lyrical song for solo voice
-reflective,emotional songs
-action pauses for aria
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basso continuo
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a small ensemble of at least 2 instrumentalists who provide a foundation for the melody, heard almost exclusively in Baroque music
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Chanson
Definition
A french term used broadly to indicate a lyrical song from the middle age into the 20th century
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Castrato
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a male adult singer who had been castrated as a boy to keep his voice from changing so that it would remain in the soprano or alto register
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Chamber music
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music,usually instrumental music, performed in a small concert hall or private residence with just one performer on each part
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Cantata
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is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
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Concerto
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an instrumental genre in which one or more soloists play with and against a larger orchestra
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Cadenza
Definition
a showy passage for the soloist appearing near the end of the movement in a concerto
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Comic Opera
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a type of opera from the 18th century that portrays everyday characters and situations, and using spoken dialogue and simple songs
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Coda
Definition
a final and concluding section of a musical composition
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Dance Suite
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a collection of instrumental dances, each w/ its own distinctive rhythm and character
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Development
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The center-most portion of sonata-allegro form, in which the thematic material of the exposition is developed and extended, transformed, or reduced to its essence;

often the most confrontational and ustable section of the movement

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Exposition
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In a fugue, the opening section, in which each voice in turn has the opportunity to present the subject;

 

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Episode
Definition
free section of a fugue
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Gregorian Chant
Definition
unaccompanied vocal music with sacred latin text
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syllabic singing
Definition
style of singing in which each syllable of text has one note
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mellismatic singing
Definition
many notes sung to just one syllable
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Organum
Definition
Early polyphony of the western church (9th-13th centuries)
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Proper of the mass
Definition
The sections of the mass that are sung to texts that vary with each feast day
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Ordinary of the mass
Definition
the 5 sung portions of the mass that never change
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Troubadour
Definition
a type of secular poet musician that flourished in southern france during the 12th and 13th centuries
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Trobaritz
Definition
female poet musician of medieval southern france
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Trouvere
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a type of secular poet musician that flourished in northern france in the 13th and early 14th centuries
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Humanism
Definition

Renaissance belief that people have the capacity to create many things good and beautiful

-Emphasis on human worth

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imitative counterpoint
Definition
type of counterpoint in which the voices or lines frequently use imitation
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Madrigal
Definition

Composition for several solo voices

-usually 4 or 5 voices

-sing love poems

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word painting
Definition
the process of depicting the text in music
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Monody
Definition
Early Baroque solo song accompanied by a basso continuo
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Figured bass
Definition
in musical notation, a numerical shorthand that tells the player which unwritten notesĀ  to fill in above the written bass note
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Terraced dynamics
Definition
shifting the volume of a sound suddenly from one level to another
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Opera
Definition

a drame where actors sing their part

-uses elaborate stage & costumes

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Libretto
Definition
text of an opera
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Recitative
Definition
musically heightened speech, often used in an opera, oratorio or cantata to report dramatic action and advance the plot
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Ostinato
Definition
a musical figure, motive, melody, harmony, or rhythm that is repeated again and again
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Idiomatic writing
Definition
musical composition that exploits the strengths and avoids the weaknesses of particular voices and instruments
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Orchestra
Definition
a large instrumental ensemble
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Overture
Definition
an introductory movement usually for orchestra that precedes an opera, oratorio, or dance suite
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Sonata
Definition

"something sounded"

-a multi movement work for solo instrument, or instrument w/ keyboard accompaniment

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Ritornello form
Definition
Form in which all or part of the main theme returns several times
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melodic sequence
Definition
repetition of a musical motive at successively higher or lower degrees of the scale
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Fugue
Definition

a composition for 3 or more parts

-vocal or instrumental

Begins w/ successive statements of the subject(exposition)

continues w/ alternations of subject and episodes

-episodes change key internally & build tension

-subject is harmonically stable

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Subject
Definition
primary musical idea in a fugue
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pedal point
Definition

low note sustained under several different harmonies

 

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Oratorio
Definition
Opera like composition on sacred theme w/o staging and costumes
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Opera Seria
Definition

Serious opera

-dealt w/ nobility and glorifies them

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Recapitulation
Definition
Themes return in original order
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Serenade
Definition
a light, multi movement composition for strings or small orchestra
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Enlightenment
Definition
18th century period during which thinkers gave free rein to the pursuit of truth and the discovery of natural laws
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Vienesse school
Definition
group of classical composers, including Haydn, Mozart,Beethoven,Schubert, whose careers unfolded in vienna
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Trio
Definition
an ensemble, vocal or instrumental, with 3 performers
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minuet
Definition
a modern dance in 3/4, though actually danced in patterns of 6 steps, w/ no upbeat but w/ highly symmetrical phrasing
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transition (bridge)
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In sonata-allegro form, the unstable section in which the tonality changes from tonic to dominant in preparation for the appearance of a 2nd theme
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Kochel (K) number
Definition
identifies all of mozarts 600+ compositionsin chronological order
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symphony
Definition
a genre of instrumental music for orchestra consisting of several movements; also the orchestral ensemble that plays this genre
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scherzo
Definition
a rapid, jovial work in triple meter often used in place of the minuet as the 3rd movement in a string quartet or symphony
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String quartet
Definition
single I an II violin, viola, and a cello
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ternary form
Definition
a 3 part musical form in which the 3rd section is a repeat of the 1st
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