vocab 23
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- sonatas
- The _ were written for the lute but are played today on the guitar or mandolin.
- octave
- Mrs. Xavier will not accept children as piano students until their hands are large enough to span an _ on the keyboard.
- motif
- The flower _ of the bedspread was repeated in a wallpaper border and in the curtain tiebacks.
- librettist
- Da Ponte was the _ for Mozart's operas Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro.
- dissonant
- The badly turned piano made only ugly, _ noises.
- cadences
- The measured _ of Walt Whitman's poetry are perfect for reading aloud.
- arias
- Opera singers are judged chiefly on their renditions of _.
- crescendo
- The rain and wind of the hurricane reached a _ at midnight.
- a cappella
- During music apreciation the class listened to a Gregorian chant sung _ by a group of monkeys.
- staccato
- Eating are her desk, Shirley soon found herself chewing in time to the _ taps of her neighbor's typrewriter.