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Fine Arts - Music Terms Flashcards

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Song that is written to capture the essence of a scene, paint a picture by sound, and help the listener create a visual image

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Art song

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The liturgy of the Roman Catholic Eucharist. In music, a mass is a choral setting of the mass that contains five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, credo, Sanctus, and Angus Die.

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Mass

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A composition in several movements for orchestra and chorus often with a sacred text, and utilizing recitatives, arias, and choruses.

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Cantata

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A polyphonic composition for choir based on a sacred Latin text and typically sung without accompaniment.

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Motet

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A theatrical presentation with drama set to music.

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Opera

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Also called opera seria (serious opera) grand in scale and tragic in tone. Highly stylized treatment of heroic subjects such as gods and heroes.

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Grand opera

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Comic opera that usually does not have a spoken dialogue and typically uses satire to treat a serious topic with humor.

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Opera buffa

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A semi-dramatic work, without acting, scenery or costumes, often on a religious theme, for orchestra, choir and soloists.

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Oratorio

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An independent composition for orchestra, in one movement, typically in sonata form and from the romantic period.

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Concert overture

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An extended composition for orchestra and one or more soloist, typically in three movements, fast-slow-fast.

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Concerto

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Music written for one musician, with or without accompaniment

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Solo

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Music written for two musicians, with or without accompaniment

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Duet

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Music written for three musicians, with or without accompaniment

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Trio

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Music written for four musicians, with or without accompaniment

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Quartet

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Music written for five musicians, with or without accompaniment

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Quintet

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Music written for six musicians, with or without accompaniment

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Sextet

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Music written for seven musicians, with or without accompaniment.

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Septet

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Music written for eight musicians, with or without accompaniment

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Octet

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Any arrangement of musicians usually more than four

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Ensemble

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A large instrumental ensemble divided into sections such as strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. In theater, the section of seats on the ground floor of the auditorium directly in front of the stage.

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Orchestra

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An instrumental piece, usually in three or four movements and usually for one or two players.

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Sonata

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An instrumental composition, typically in two parts arising from the baroque period and comprising a set of dance- inspired movements written in the same key but differing in tempo, meter, and character.

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Suite

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An extended musical composition for orchestra usually consisting of three or four movements.

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Symphony

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A polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all voices.

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Fugue

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The dominant idea of a work of art, music, film, dance, and literature. In music, a principal melodic phrase in a composition.

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Theme

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Vibrations that travel through the atmosphere and cause the eardrum to vibrate.

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Sound

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The highness or lowness of the sound. Short wavelengths create a higher pitch, whereas, long wavelengths create lower ones.

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Pitch

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The loudness of the sound.

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Dynamics

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The timbre of a voice or instrument.

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Tone color

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The quality of a tone that distinguishes it from other tones of the same pitch

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Timbre

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How many beats the pitch or note is being held.

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Duration

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Equal parts into which the measure is divided.

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Beat

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On written music, a measure is the distance between two bar lines.

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Measure

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On written music, a vertical line that lies perpendicular to the staff or grand staff.

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Bar line

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Five horizontal, parallel lines

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Staff

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Two sets of five horizontal, parallel lines, connect by a grand bar line, with the upper staff usually being treble clef and the bottom staff being bass clef.

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Grand staff

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The regular succession of rhythmical impulses or beats

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Meter

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The relationship, either of time or space, between recurring elements of a composition. The regular or ordered repetition of dominant and subordinate elements.

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Rhythm

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The slowness or fastness of the rhythm

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Tempo

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The succession of recognizable tones that create a whole

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Melody

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The melodic and harmonic characteristics of a composition

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Texture

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The scientific study of music, including aspects of physics of sound, chord, progression, and note development

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Theory

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The study of the overall development of a piece of music: identifying which phrases repeat, and which phrases are new and all combinations within the piece of music.

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Form and analysis

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A diverse artistic style taking place from the late 16th century to the early 18th century marked typically by complexity, elaborate form, and appeal to the emotions.

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Baroque

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Adhering to traditional standards. In music, classical refers to a style of the 18th century that adhered to classical standards but had no known classical antecedents

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Classical

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A philosophy as well as a style in all the arts and literature, dating to the late 18th through 19th centuries. Sought to reflect great diversity.

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Romantic

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Music that reflects the style of the day

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Contemporary

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Music that has a definite 2- beat feel and was first written for military purposes.

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March

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A Caribbean island feel that reflects the laid- back lifestyles of those residents

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Reggae

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A strong heaven drum beat that establishes the rhythmic feel with heavy and piano providing the melody and harmony

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Rock

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Written to fully express the restrained emotions of the slaves and former slaves developing in the Mississippi delta

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Rhythm and blues

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A highly vocalized, automatic, rhythmic beat that expresses the artists emotions usually of hatred and violence

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Rap

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A sacred style of music that developed by African- Americans and was a spin - off rhythm and blue.

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Gospel

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Similar to an opera but includes folk- music or music specifically written to carry the story

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Musical

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The primary female singer in an opera

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Prima Donna

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A classical or formal tradition resting heavily on a set of prescribed movements, actions, and positions

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Ballet

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The primary female dancer in a ballet

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Prima ballerina

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A form of concert dance relying on emotional us of the body, as opposed to formalized or conventional movement such as ballet, and stressing human emotion and the human condition

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Modern dance

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A group of dances that perform some religious, moral, or ethical purpose in a society

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Ritual dance

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A body or group of dances performed to traditional music that is stylistically identifiable with a specific culture, for which it serves as a necessary or informative part

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Folk dance

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A form arising partly from African dance customs, and with a strong improvisational nature, that developed int American social and entertainment dances.

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Jazz dance

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A serious of dances that have a prescribed style and set of steps that must be followed closely to express the customs of a particularly country.

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Ballroom dance

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When dancers stand in a straight line and perform high kicks and alternate moves to follow a domino pattern

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Line

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When a serious of motions are repeated to reiterate or capture a particular expression or mood

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Form

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Reiteration of elements in a work so as to create a sene of unity

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Repetition

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The arrangement and progression of chords

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Harmony

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In theater, a type of greek and Roman farce: or a performance using only body movement and gestures, without the use of words. In dance or theatre, actions that initiate human or animal movements

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Mime

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In dance, it is the transmission of emotions and meaning through gesture

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Pantomime

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The complete visual environment of the production, including, scenery, lighting, properties, customs, and physical structure of the theatre

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Miss-en-scene

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Using the hands and body to communicate, express, and translate thought and emotions

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Sign language

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How the audience responds to what they have heard and/or seen

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Reaction

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