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Masterworks of Western Music Final Vocabulary
Vocabulary and Composers
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Music
Undergraduate 1
05/12/2012

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duplets
Definition
rhythms grouped in twos
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triplets
Definition
rhythms grouped in threes
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piano
Definition
a quiet dynamic; an instrument
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forte
Definition
a loud dynamic
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cresendo
Definition
softer to louder
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diminuendo
Definition
louder to softer
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sonata-allegro form
Definition
includes an exposition, a development and a recapitulation
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exposition
Definition
states the main themes
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development
Definition
takes the musical themes and builds on them
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recapitulation
Definition
restates the main theme
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coda
Definition
musical ending
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strophic form
Definition
each stanza of song gets the same music
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scherzo
Definition

quick, dance-like movement in triple meter

 

 

Hint: "scare" - fast, quick,
 

 

Term
libretto
Definition
text of an opera
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singspiel
Definition
sing and talk, style of opera in which some text is spoken rather than entirely sung
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sequence
Definition
idea which is repeated at a higher or lower pitch level
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rubato
Definition

streching the tempo: slowing it down and speeding it up for expressive purposes

 

Hint: It's rude to strech someone out.

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program music
Definition
music that is inspired by a story or idea unrelated to music
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tone poem
Definition
one-movement form found in music that tells a story
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countermelody/obbligato
Definition
secondary theme that serves to accompany the first
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through-composed
Definition

musical form that follows the ideas of the composer and does not have a formal structure.

 

Hint: Thoughts of composer

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glissando
Definition
sliding between one note to the next
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Wolfgang Mozart
Definition
1756-1791
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Ludwig van-Beethoven
Definition

1770-1827

 

Hint: L looks like a 7 and B looks like an 8

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Franz Schubert (Dates)
Definition
1797 -1828
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Camile Saint-Saens (Dates)
Definition
1835-1921
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John Philip Sousa (Dates)
Definition

1854-1932

 

*Think of civil war*

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Paul Dukas (Dates)
Definition
1865-1935
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George Gershwin (Dates)
Definition

1898-1937

 

*Think of the 20s*

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Aaron Copland (Dates)
Definition
1900-1990
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Erl-King
Definition

Form: through-composed

 

Composer: Franz Schubert

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Danse Macabre
Definition

Form: Tone poem and through-composed

 

Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

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Semper Fidelis
Definition

Form: compound binary form

 

Composer: John Philip Souza

 

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Sorcerer's Apprentice
Definition

Form: Tone poem and sonata-allegro form

 

Composer: Paul Dukas

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Rhapsody in Blue
Definition

Forms: jazz piano concerto and orchestra extional form

 

Composer: George Gershwin

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Theme and Variations on Simple Gifts/Appalachian Sprin
Definition

Forms: Orchestral compostitio

 

Composer: Aaron Copland

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cadenza
Definition
showy solo passage, sometimes improvised, introduced near the end of an aria or a movement of a concerto
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syncopation
Definition
a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats
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riff
Definition
a melodic phrase, often constantly repeated, forming an accompaniment or part of an accompaniment for a soloist.
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homophonic texture
Definition
same melody, entire way through
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contrapuntal
Definition
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