ch 10 for music
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- cadenza
- a showy passage for the soloist appearing near the end of the movement in a concerto it usually incorporates rapid runs (scales) arpeggios, and snippets of previously heard themes into a fantasy like improvisation
- chamber music
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usually instrumental music performed in a small concert hall or private residence with just one performer on each part.
ex: Mozart's "A Little Night Music" and Haydn's "Emperor String Quartet" - Diminished chord
- a triad of seventh chord made up entirely of minor thirds and producing a tense unstable sound. The listener will expect to hear resolution in the next chord.
- double exposition
- a form originating in the concerto of the classical period in which first the orchestra and then the soloist present the primary thematic material (exposition)
- Lorenzo da Ponte
- Mozart's librettist. Incredibly wild life story
- Scherzo
- (Italian for "joke") a rapid jovial work in triple meter often used in place of the minuet as the third movement in a string quartet or symphony
- Sinfonia
- (Italian for "symphony") a one movement (later 3-4 movement) orchestral work that originated in Italy.
- Singspiel
- (German for "singing play") a musical comedy originating in Germany with spoken dialogue, tuneful songs, and topical humor. German version of comic opera.
- Solo concerto
- a concerto in which an orchestra and a single performer in turn present and develop the musical material in the spirit of harmonious competition
- sonata
- in the classical period, this is defined as a multi-movement work for solo instrument or instrument with keyboard accompaniment
- string quartet
- a standard instrumental ensemble for chamber music consisting of a first and second violin, a viola, and a cello. Also the genre of music, usually in three or four movements, composed for this ensemble
- The Emperor's Hymn
- written by Haydn, it's Vienna's national anthem. Haydn uses it for the second movement of the Emperor's Quartet.
- vocal ensemble
- in Classic (and Romantic) opera, a group of four or more solo singers, usually the principles. When all singers come together, its usually at the end of an act.