orch vocab 1
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- a tempo
- back to the original tempo
- allargando
- growing broader, louder and softer (allarg.)
- allegretto
- moderately fast, lively
- andante
- moderately slow, a walking speed
- basso continuo
- a characteristic of Baroque music consisting of a bass part that runs continuously throughout a work, also called thoroughbass.
- cantabile
- in a singing, graceful style
- caprice
- a musical form that reflects a fanciful, carefree style
- col legno
- strike the strings with the wood of the bow
- con gusto
- with precision and steady energy
- corda
- string
- divisi
- divide the parts or notes; in a two note chord the outside player plays the top note and the inside player plays the bottom note
- dolce
- sweetly, softly
- doctrine of affections
-
theory in Baroque period that prescribed certain musical methods and figures for summoning or portraying individual emotions.
happiness - faster notes
sadness - minor keys and slower movement
anger - loudness and harsh discordant harmonies - gavotte
- a pastoral dance of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries usually written in 2 or cut time
- grace note
- ornamentation used to decorate or embellish a melody