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Melody

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

Feeling

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Rhythm

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

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Harmony

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simultaneous sounding of different pitches, or chords

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Texture

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

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Tone Color

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

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Form

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“shape” of a piece of music

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

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Dynamics

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volume of sound, loudness or softness of a musical passage

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Crescendo

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getting louder (dynamics)

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Diminuendo

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getting softer (dynamics)

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Meter

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

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Tempo

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

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Accent

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

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Strings

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

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Tonality

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

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Symphony

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large orchestral piece in several movements

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Atonality

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The absence of any feeling of tonality

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“Emancipation of

dissonance”

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

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Twelve-tone row

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divides the octave into six equal parts

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Expressionism

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

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Sprechstimme

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

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Inversion

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

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Retrograde

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reading or playing a melody or 12 tone series backward

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Ragtime

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

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Blues

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

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Minimalism

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20th century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments

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Whole-tone scale

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

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Melisma

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

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Motive

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

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Transposition

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

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Lied (Lieder)

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

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Song Cycle

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

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Through-composed

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song with new music for each stanza of the poem

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Strophic

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

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Scherzo

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

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Nationalism

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

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Salon

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intimate gathering at a home

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Nocturne

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night piece; romantic miniature compositions for piano

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Leitmotiv

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guiding, or leading motive in Wagner’s operas

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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wagners term for his music dramas, total work of art

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Music drama

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wagners name for his distinctive type of opera

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Chromaticism

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

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Bel canto

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

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Program Music (and
program)
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piece of instrumental music associated with a story or other extramusical idea

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l’idée fixe

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obsession, program symphony

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Symphonic Poem

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

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Avant-garde

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modernism, advanced thinkers, new generation of compers

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Ostinato

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ground bass

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Serialism

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

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Symbolism

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

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Impressionism

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