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MAT - Music

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Tone
sound quality
Forte-piano
loud tone followed by soft
Wolfgang Mozart
Austrian - opera & symphony - The Marriage of Figaro
Allegro
fast tempo
Decrescendo
tone gradually softer (aka Diminuendo)
Forte
loud tone
Allegretto
somewhat fast tempo
Crescendo
increasingly louder tone
Period
music form made of two small parts / question and answer
Mezzo-piano
mod. soft tone
Fortissimo
very loud
Monderato
moderate tempo
Largo
extremely slow and broad tempo
Sergei Prokofiev
Russian - composer
Aria
long song within an opera
Libretto
written words of an opera
Pianissimo
very soft tone
Enrico Caruso
Italian - opera singer - famous tener
Claude Debussy
French - composer of classical music
Ludwig von Beethoven
German composer
Chromatic Scale
12 pitches within an octane
Mezzo-forte
mod. loud tone
Vivace
brisk/lively tempo
Lento
slow tempo
Igor Stravinsky
Russian - scores and ballads - The Firebird
Presto
very fast tempo
Richard Wagner
German composer - 19th c.
Adagio
slow tempo
Sforzano
sudden accent on a single tone
Tempo
pace or speed
Consonance
stability feeling produced by chords
Dissonance
unstable feeling produced by chords
Timbre
sound quality
Giacomo Puccini
Italian composer - opera - Madame Butterfly
Andante
somewhat slow tempo
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Frederic Chopin
Polish - composer
Natural
tone that is not sharp nor flat
Peter Tchaikovsky
Russian composer - symphonies, scores and ballads - The Nutcracker and Swan Lake
Grave
extremely slow and solemn tempo

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