DEFINITIONS Flashcards
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A punta d’arco
The performance of a musical passage for a stringed instrument with the tip or point of the bow.
Canon
Strict imitation in which multiple instruments play the same part at set amounts apart from each other.
Coda
Rounding off
Changing notes
An accented passing note in old strict musical counterpoint
OR
An unaccented non-harmonic note that resolves to its neighbouring chord after touching an intervening note
Development
Developers the melodies from that exposition in various keys
Conjunct
Music that moves in step
Exposition DOUBLE CHECK ME PLS!!!!!
Introduction of the main themes/subjects of the piece
Concertino
A group of solo instruments performing as part of a concerto grosso
Disjunct
Music that moves in leaps
Periodic phrasing
Beautifully balanced question and answer phrases that valance each other out
Moto perpetuo
A fast instrumental passage
Recapitulation
Altered repeat of exposition
Religiosamente
Religiously
Fugue
A piece in which a main theme is played in imitation by all instruments
Siciliano
Movement in 17th C. Music characterised by slow triplet time signature (6/8, 12/8)
Tierce de picardie
A major third in the final chord of a piece in a minor key.
Spiccato
Type of Staccato playing on a stringed instrument where you bounce the bow on the strings
Ritornello
A recurring musical section/idea that returns and alternates with different contrasting material.
Ripieno
The large body of accompaniment strings in a concerto grosso (the rest of the orchestra)
