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unaccompanied vocal music
-created in Sistine Chapel where instruments were forbidden to accompany the singers |
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An elaborate lyrical song for solo voice
-reflective,emotional songs
-action pauses for aria |
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| a small ensemble of at least 2 instrumentalists who provide a foundation for the melody, heard almost exclusively in Baroque music |
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| A french term used broadly to indicate a lyrical song from the middle age into the 20th century |
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| a male adult singer who had been castrated as a boy to keep his voice from changing so that it would remain in the soprano or alto register |
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| music,usually instrumental music, performed in a small concert hall or private residence with just one performer on each part |
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| is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. |
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| an instrumental genre in which one or more soloists play with and against a larger orchestra |
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| a showy passage for the soloist appearing near the end of the movement in a concerto |
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| a type of opera from the 18th century that portrays everyday characters and situations, and using spoken dialogue and simple songs |
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| a final and concluding section of a musical composition |
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| a collection of instrumental dances, each w/ its own distinctive rhythm and character |
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The center-most portion of sonata-allegro form, in which the thematic material of the exposition is developed and extended, transformed, or reduced to its essence;
often the most confrontational and ustable section of the movement |
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In a fugue, the opening section, in which each voice in turn has the opportunity to present the subject;
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| unaccompanied vocal music with sacred latin text |
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| style of singing in which each syllable of text has one note |
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| many notes sung to just one syllable |
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| Early polyphony of the western church (9th-13th centuries) |
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| The sections of the mass that are sung to texts that vary with each feast day |
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| the 5 sung portions of the mass that never change |
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| a type of secular poet musician that flourished in southern france during the 12th and 13th centuries |
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| female poet musician of medieval southern france |
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| a type of secular poet musician that flourished in northern france in the 13th and early 14th centuries |
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Renaissance belief that people have the capacity to create many things good and beautiful
-Emphasis on human worth |
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| type of counterpoint in which the voices or lines frequently use imitation |
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Composition for several solo voices
-usually 4 or 5 voices
-sing love poems |
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| the process of depicting the text in music |
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| Early Baroque solo song accompanied by a basso continuo |
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| in musical notation, a numerical shorthand that tells the player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note |
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| shifting the volume of a sound suddenly from one level to another |
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a drame where actors sing their part
-uses elaborate stage & costumes |
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| musically heightened speech, often used in an opera, oratorio or cantata to report dramatic action and advance the plot |
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| a musical figure, motive, melody, harmony, or rhythm that is repeated again and again |
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| musical composition that exploits the strengths and avoids the weaknesses of particular voices and instruments |
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| a large instrumental ensemble |
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| an introductory movement usually for orchestra that precedes an opera, oratorio, or dance suite |
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"something sounded"
-a multi movement work for solo instrument, or instrument w/ keyboard accompaniment |
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| Form in which all or part of the main theme returns several times |
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| repetition of a musical motive at successively higher or lower degrees of the scale |
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a composition for 3 or more parts
-vocal or instrumental
Begins w/ successive statements of the subject(exposition)
continues w/ alternations of subject and episodes
-episodes change key internally & build tension
-subject is harmonically stable |
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| primary musical idea in a fugue |
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low note sustained under several different harmonies
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| Opera like composition on sacred theme w/o staging and costumes |
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Serious opera
-dealt w/ nobility and glorifies them |
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| Themes return in original order |
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| a light, multi movement composition for strings or small orchestra |
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| 18th century period during which thinkers gave free rein to the pursuit of truth and the discovery of natural laws |
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| group of classical composers, including Haydn, Mozart,Beethoven,Schubert, whose careers unfolded in vienna |
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| an ensemble, vocal or instrumental, with 3 performers |
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| a modern dance in 3/4, though actually danced in patterns of 6 steps, w/ no upbeat but w/ highly symmetrical phrasing |
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| In sonata-allegro form, the unstable section in which the tonality changes from tonic to dominant in preparation for the appearance of a 2nd theme |
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| identifies all of mozarts 600+ compositionsin chronological order |
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| a genre of instrumental music for orchestra consisting of several movements; also the orchestral ensemble that plays this genre |
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| a rapid, jovial work in triple meter often used in place of the minuet as the 3rd movement in a string quartet or symphony |
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| single I an II violin, viola, and a cello |
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| a 3 part musical form in which the 3rd section is a repeat of the 1st |
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