Definitions 2nd Year

Question 1

Explain an art song

Answer 1

A song where a person is set to music by a known composer usually accompanied by either a piano or orchestra. The accompaniment reflects the mood and meaning of the words.

Question 2

Explain sequence

Answer 2

A musical pattern reacted at a higher or lower pitch

Question 3

Octave

Answer 3

A series of eight notes

Question 4

Interval

Answer 4

The difference in pitch between two notes

Question 5

Triad

Answer 5

A chord containing three notes

Question 6

Chord

Answer 6

When two or more notes are played at the same time

Question 7

Syncopation

Answer 7

When the accent is placed on the weaker beat or the off beat of the bar

Question 8

Strophic form

Answer 8

The same music for each verse

Question 9

Triadic leaps

Answer 9

When leaps are bases on the notes of a triad

Question 10

Ornamentation

Answer 10

When a melody is embellished or decorated

Question 11

Syllabic

Answer 11

One note per syllable

Question 12

Melismatic

Answer 12

Several notes per syllable

Question 13

Solo concerto

Answer 13

A piece of music composed for one soloist accompanied by instrumental group . Three movements. Fast,slow,fast

Question 14

Ritornello form

Answer 14

A form when Ritornello theme returns throughout a piece of music

Question 15

Cadenza

Answer 15

In a concerto when the soloist displays his/her technical skill

Question 16

Basso continuo

Answer 16

System in the baroque era which provided the higher melody instrument with a solid bass accompaniment

Question 17

Programme music

Answer 17

Music which tells a story or describes a scene

Question 18

Concerto

Answer 18

A composition for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra in several movements

Question 19

Episode

Answer 19

A contrasting section of music which occurs between main theme in a piece of music

Question 20

Lied

Answer 20

A German song associated with the romantic era in music. Lieder is the plural used more specifically to indicate songs in the rest German tradition of song writing

Question 21

Symphony

Answer 21

Composition for a full orchestra usually in four movements
First movement is in sonata form (allegro)
Second movement is a slower movement
Third movement minuet and trio or a scherzo
Fourth movement in rondo form

Question 22

Tone poem

Answer 22

A symphonic poem which is an orchestral composition that seeks to express extra musical ideas in music

Question 23

Intermezzo

Answer 23

A piece of music played between two scenes or acts of a play

Question 24

Farandole

Answer 24

A lively dance form Provence in France

Question 25

Canon

Answer 25

A piece where one part imitates another. One part leads with melody and the other part follows with the same melody but at a certain distance of bars or beats

Question 26

Antiphonal dialogue

Answer 26

Call and response between instruments and voices

Question 27

Binary form

Answer 27

Form where last section is not the A section