Vocab Be-Co
Vocabulary for IB Music Students
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- Cantata
- vocal genre for solo singers, chorus, and instrumentalists based on a lyric or dramatic poetic narrative.
- Brass quintet
- Standard chamber ensemble made of two trumpets, a french horn, trombone, and tuba
- Call and response
- Performance style in which there is a singing leader who is imitated by a chorus of followers
- Celesta
- Percussion instrument resembling a miniature upright piano, ith tuned metal plates struck by hammers that are operated by a keyboard
- Bel canto
- Beautiful singing
- Chorale prelude
- Short Baroque organ piece in which a traditional chorale melody is embellished
- Chromatic
- Melody or harmony built from many if not all 12 semitones of the octave
- Canon
- the type of polyphonic composition in which one musical line strictly imitates another at a fixed distance throughout
- Chordophone
- Instrument that produces sound form a vibrating string streched between two points; the sting may be set in motion by bowing, striking, or plucking
- Cantor
- Solo singer or singing leader in Jewish and Christian liturgical music
- Castrato
- Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register prominent in 17th and early 18th century opera.
- Cantabile
- songful in a sining style
- Carol
- English medieval strophic song with a refrain repeated after each stanza
- Cadence
- Resting place in a musical phrase
- Clavichord
- Stringed keyboard instrument popular in the Renaissance and Baroque periods
- Coda
- Last part of a piece
- Capriccio
- Short lyric piece of free nature (often for piano)
- Chanson
- French polyphonic song especially of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, set to either courtly or popular poetry
- Binary form
- Two-Part form
- Chaconne
- Baroque form similar to the passacaglia, in which the variations are based on a repeated chord progression.
- Cantus firmus
- Fixed melody