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| a core repertoire of classical music performed at concerts continually since the eighteenth century |
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| a tempo mark that indicates that the performer may move faster or slower so as to effect an intensely personal performance |
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| an instrumentalists or singer with a highly developed talent |
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| a genre of song for solo voice and piano accompaniment by high artistic aspirations (schubert) |
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| a collection of several songs united by a common textual theme or literary idea to tell a story |
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| musical composition featuring ever changing melodic and harmonic material (erlkonig: schubert) |
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| recreates with sounds the events and emotions in some extra-musical source: a story, legend, a play, novel, historical events... |
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| symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and other instrumental music with no extramusical or programmatic references |
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| musical expression to the emotions or events of a story |
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| instructions to strings to strike the strings with the wood of the bow instead of the sting |
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| a dramatic dance in which the characters using various stylized steps and pantomime tell a story |
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| concert of chamber music usually a solo performer |
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| short one movement composition designed to improve one aspect of a performers technique |
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| type of italian opera that features the beautiful tone and brilliant technique of the human voice |
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| leading female singer in an opera |
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| terms for the mature operas of richard wagner included: poetry, music, acting, mime, dance, scenic design functioning harmoniously |
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| "total are work" (wagner) generated more realistic drama |
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| brief, distinct unit of music. represents a character, an object, or an idea (starwars: wagner) which returns repeatedly to show how the drama unfolds |
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| 19th-20th century deals with everyday gritty subjects auch as poverty, physical abuse, industrial exploitation, and crime |
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| emphasizes indigenous qualities in their music. incorporates national anthems, native dances, protest songs, victory symphonies |
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| when you press down two strings of a string instrument and play them at the same time |
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| rejected realism in paintings. tried to recreate the impression that an object has on the senses in a single fleeting movement (debussey) |
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| each pitch is a whole tone away from the next |
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| use of sounds drawn from outside the traditional western europe music experience (tambourine/gong) |
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| simultaneous sounding of a number of pitches only a whole step or half step apart; dissonant (ives) |
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| 20th century music tried to bring back the baroque and classical periods with smaller ensebles and classical forms (stravinsky) |
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| 2 or more meters sounding simultaneously |
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| 2 or more rhythms sounding simultaneously |
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| group of progressive modernist composers centered around schoenberg in vienna (20th century) |
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| music without tonality, music without a key center, associated with avant-garde style of schoenberg |
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| aim was not to depict objects as they are seen but to express the strong emotion that the object generates to the artist |
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| singer speaks the text rather than singing it |
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| the twelve notes in the chromatic scale sound in a fixed regularly recurring order |
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| modern music soviet authorities deemed "anti-democratic" |
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| composer works with sounds not of instruments but of those naturally in the everyday world |
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| reusing portions of a previously recorded sound and repeating it over and over then using it as a backdrop to the rap |
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| piano's given screws, bolts, washers, erasers, and bits of felt and plastic to go from melodic to percussive |
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| music involves and element of chance, performers play on a whim, nothings planned |
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| small amount of musical material that is repeated to form composition |
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| form of black folk song that originated in the south vents feelings of pain and anger |
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| lively, energetic, pulsating rhythms with bright syncopation |
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| early jazz, steady bass with a syncopated jazzy bass |
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| section in jazz that established harmony and rhythm (tuba string piano banjo and guitar) |
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| plays swing music. 1930s. large band |
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| mellow bouncy style of jazz 1930s |
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| hard-driving jazz that was played by a small combo with no written music, improvisation |
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| tune so influential that it causes other musicians to record many other interpretations of it |
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| a new version of a standard |
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| new style of jazz in the 1960s it incorporated many elements of rock |
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| section of NYC near Broadway where music stores were plentiful and the noise was so loud that is sounded like a crowd was banging on tin pans |
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