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Question 1

Melody

Answer 1

The aspect of music having to do with the succession of pitches

Feeling

Question 2

Rhythm

Answer 2

The aspect of music having to do with the duration of notes in time

Question 3

Harmony

Answer 3

simultaneous sounding of different pitches, or chords

Question 4

Texture

Answer 4

blend of the various sounds and melodic lines occurring simultaneously in a piece of music

Question 5

Tone Color

Answer 5

sonorous quality of a particular instrument, voice, or combination of instruments or voices

Question 6

Form

Answer 6

“shape” of a piece of music

organization of the rhythm, dynamics, tone color, melody, harmony, and texture

Question 7

Dynamics

Answer 7

volume of sound, loudness or softness of a musical passage

Question 8

Crescendo

Answer 8

getting louder (dynamics)

Question 9

Diminuendo

Answer 9

getting softer (dynamics)

Question 10

Meter

Answer 10

a background of stressed and unstressed beats in a simple, regular, repeating pattern

Question 11

Tempo

Answer 11

the speed of music, i.e., the rate at which the accented and unaccented beats of the meter follow one another

Question 12

Accent

Answer 12

the stressing of a note - for example by playing it somewhat louder than the surrounding notes

Question 13

Strings

Answer 13

and instrumental group consisting of two violins, viola, and cello

Question 14

Tonality

Answer 14

eeling of centrality of one note (and its chord) to a passage of music

Question 15

Symphony

Answer 15

large orchestral piece in several movements

Question 16

Atonality

Answer 16

The absence of any feeling of tonality

Question 17

“Emancipation of

dissonance”

Answer 17

central style characteristic of the first phase of 20th c. avent-garde music

Question 18

Twelve-tone row

Answer 18

divides the octave into six equal parts

Question 19

Expressionism

Answer 19

A French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
idealized and overemotional art of Romanticism

Question 20

Sprechstimme

Answer 20

A vocal style developed by Schoenberg, in between singing and speaking

Question 21

Inversion

Answer 21

Reading or playing a melody or a twelve-tone series upside down, i.e., playing all its upward intervals downward and vice versa

Question 22

Retrograde

Answer 22

reading or playing a melody or 12 tone series backward

Question 23

Ragtime

Answer 23

style of american popular music around 1900 usually for piano which led to jazz

Question 24

Blues

Answer 24

african american vernacular music used in jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and other style of popular music

Question 25

Minimalism

Answer 25

20th century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments

Question 26

Whole-tone scale

Answer 26

compromising only six notes to the octave, each a whole tone apart. debussy

Question 27

Melisma

Answer 27

vocal music, passage of many notes sung to a single syllable

Question 28

Motive

Answer 28

short fragment of meldy or rhythm used in constructing a long section of music

Question 29

Transposition

Answer 29

to ove a whole piece, or a section of a piece, or a 12 tone series from one pitch level to another

Question 30

Lied (Lieder)

Answer 30

German for “song”; a special genre of Romantic songs with piano

Question 31

Song Cycle

Answer 31

group of songs connected by a general idea or story, sometimes aslo by musical unifying devices

Question 32

Through-composed

Answer 32

song with new music for each stanza of the poem

Question 33

Strophic

Answer 33

song in several stanzas, with the same music sung for each stanza

Question 34

Scherzo

Answer 34

form developed by beethoven from the minuet to use for movements in larger compositions

Question 35

Nationalism

Answer 35

A nineteenth-century movement promoting music built on national folk songs and dances, or associated with national subjects

Question 36

Salon

Answer 36

intimate gathering at a home

Question 37

Nocturne

Answer 37

night piece; romantic miniature compositions for piano

Question 38

Leitmotiv

Answer 38

guiding, or leading motive in Wagner’s operas

Question 39

Gesamtkunstwerk

Answer 39

wagners term for his music dramas, total work of art

Question 40

Music drama

Answer 40

wagners name for his distinctive type of opera

Question 41

Chromaticism

Answer 41

A musical style employing all or many of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale much of the time

Question 42

Bel canto

Answer 42

style of singing that brings out the sensuous beauty of the voice

Question 43

Program Music (and
program)

Answer 43

piece of instrumental music associated with a story or other extramusical idea

Question 44

l’idée fixe

Answer 44

obsession, program symphony

Question 45

Symphonic Poem

Answer 45

one-movement orchestral composition with a progrm in a free music form

Question 46

Avant-garde

Answer 46

modernism, advanced thinkers, new generation of compers

Question 47

Ostinato

Answer 47

ground bass

Question 48

Serialism

Answer 48

technique of composing with a series, generally a twelve-tone series
music invented by arnold schoenberg

Question 49

Symbolism

Answer 49

late 19th century movement in th arts that emphasized suggestion rather than precise reference

Question 50

Impressionism

Answer 50

French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries