Music
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- recitative
- speech like singing
- Nuages
- Debussy
- counterpoint
- The technique of combining two or more melodic lines in such a way that they establish a harmonic relationship while retaining their linear individuality
- noble savage
- fascination with the culture of the olden times
- paralled motion/chords
- sequence of intervals that doesn't change as chord changes; two voices moving without changing interval
- danza
- physical movement done to music
- modulation
- A passing or transition from one key or tonality to another
- polyphonic
- consisting of several melodies played together
- pace
- measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds
- gapped scales
- a scale with fewer than 7 notes
- pizzicato
- Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings
- consonance
- Close correspondence of sounds
- Claude Debussy
- French Impressionist
- coloratura
- soprano singing elaborate ornamentation containing improvised or written out running passages and trills; common in arias
- range
- The gamut of tones that a voice or instrument is capable of producing
- articulation
- Directions to a performer typically through symbols and icons on a musical score that indicate characteristics of the attack, duration, and decay of a given note.
- Pirates of Penzance
- Sullivan
- siciliano
- dance, slow, pastoral piece with duple meter. it's harmony is often very chordal
- basso buffo
- comic bass
- chant
- simple one-lined melody
- hemiola
- ratio of 3:2 (2 measures of triple meter as if they were 3 of duple meter)
- whole-tone scale
- scale build entirely of whole tone intervals
- program music
- compositions with extra-musical content that directs listener's attention to a pictoral association
- Othello
- Verdi
- Souvenir de Porto Rico
- Gottschalk
- absolute music
- Instrumental music that is free of any explicit verbal reference or program
- movement
- A self-contained section of an extended composition
- patrol march
- when a sound comes from one side, gets louder and then goes off into the distance of the other side
- diatonicism
- Of or using only the seven tones of a standard scale without chromatic alterations
- minstral
- white people who dressed up like black people and made shows for entertainment
- harmonics
- lightly touching a string at the right place you get a note 2 octaves higher than the one you're playing
- Pomp and Circumstance
- Elgar
- homophonic
- Having or characterized by a single melodic line with accompaniment.
- Camille Saint-Saens
- French
- inflection of notes
- Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice.
- mode
- A patterned arrangement, as the one characteristic of the music such as Lydian, Dorian etc
- tone poem
- self contained piece that is purely instrumental
- reminiscence motif
- motif used by Verdi in Otello, different from leitmotif because it is repeated less, less sophosticated, and less involved
- texture
- the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together
- Elgar & Sullivan
- British
- bel canto
- beautiful singing usually associated with a very light, agile, soprano voice
- pitch
- the highness or lowness of a note in relation to other notes
- nocturne
- unending melodies that don't necessarily have an ending
- furiant
- rapid and fiery Bohemian dance with shifting accents
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Foster
- transcription
- when an arrangement of music for another medium is written for a different instrument
- timbre
- The combination of qualities of a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume
- parlor music
- Foster made up this genre, and it's usually with one voice and one piano
- pentatonic scale
- scale of five tones heard in African, Far Eastern, and Native American music
- aesthetics
- sense of beauty, taste of beauty
- tonality
- A system or an arrangement of seven tones built on a tonic key
- syncopation
- deliberate upsetting of the meter or pulse by shifting the accent
- opus
- a musical composition numbered to designate the order of a composer's works
- Romeo and Juliet
- Tchaicovsky
- Violin Concerto
- Saint-Saens
- habanera
- Cuban dance named after Havana
- Post-Romantic/Impressionist time period
- 1890-1910
- monophonic
- Having a single melodic line
- color & subtlety
- the two words Debussy would use to describe his music
- synesthetic
- appeals directly to the senses. immediate response
- Slavonic Dance & Biblicke
- Dvorak
- pattersong
- fast, funny usually done by the basso buffo
- Semper Fidelis
- Sousa
- multiple stopping
- when more than one string is played at the same time
- character piece
- compositions attempting to represent the "character" of something extra-musical
- rhetoric
- way of expressing something that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
- Romantic time period
- 1803-1890
- meter
- A specific rhythm determined by the number of beats and the time value assigned to each note in a measure
- Guiseppe Verdi
- Italian
- aria
- solo in an opera
- tessitura
- The prevailing range of a vocal or instrumental part, within which most of the tones lie.
- conjunct
- Of or relating to successive tones of the scale, moving step by step
- 3 Character Pieces (Romanza)
- Foote
- chromaticism
- Relating to chords or harmonies based on nonharmonic tones
- the mighty 5
- Russian composers who were anti-academic nationalists
- Rococo
- light, airy, graceful, and ornamented style
- orgam
- duplicating a melody in 5ths or 6ths
- concerto
- soloist with an orchestra
- cadence
- the closing chord progression at the end of a piece
- Risorgimento
- name of the Italian movement for unity from Austria
- gamelan
- Indonesian orchestra with stringed instruments, flutes, and a variety of percussion
- Ausgleich
- in 1867 brought the Czech's to want independence
- Rachmaninov
- Piano Concerto #3 & Vespers
- cadenza
- soloist shows off improvisation techniques
- The Strenuous Life
- Joplin
- set piece
- self contained independent musical number that has a beginning and an end
- coda
- the end
- sonata
- A composition for one or more solo instruments, one of which is usually a keyboard instrument, usually consisting of three or four independent movements varying in key, mood, and tempo