Chapter 37-40 Vocabulary

Question 1

Orchestration

Answer 1

The technique of setting music for instruments in various combinations.

Question 2

Dolce

Answer 2

Sweetly

Question 3

Cantabile

Answer 3

Songful

Question 4

Dolente

Answer 4

Sorrowful

Question 5

Maestoso

Answer 5

Majestic

Question 6

Gioioso

Answer 6

Joyous

Question 7

Con Amore

Answer 7

With love, tenderly

Question 8

Art Song

Answer 8

A song set to a high quality literary text, usually accompanied, and intended for concert performance. See also Lied and Melodie.

Question 9

Lied

Lieder

Answer 9

German for “song”, mostly commonly associated with the art song of the nineteenth century, usually accompanied by piano. See also Art Song
Plural of Lied

Question 10

Song cycle

Answer 10

Group of songs that are unified musically or through their texts.

Question 11

Strophic (Strophic form)

Answer 11

Song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem.

Question 12

Through-composed

Answer 12

Song structure that is composed from beginning to end, without repetitions of large sections.

Question 13

Modified Strophic (Modified Strophic Form)

Answer 13

Song structure that combines elements of strophic and through-composed forms; a variation of strophic form in which a section might have a new key, rhythm, or varied melodic pattern.

Question 14

Parlor Songs

Answer 14

A song, generally accompanied by piano, intended for home entertainment; the term is particular to nineteenth-century America.

Question 15

Minstrelsy (Minstrel Show)

Answer 15

A late nineteenth-century American entertainment featuring white performers in blackface acting out stereotypes of African American slaves.

Question 16

Character Piece

Answer 16

A short, lyric piano work often with a descriptive title; popular in the nineteenth century.

Question 17

Polonaise

Answer 17

Stately Polish processional dance in triple meter.

Question 18

Rubato

Answer 18

“Borrowed time,” common in Romatic music, in which the performer hesitates here or hurries forward there, imparting flexibility to the written note values.