Midterm 2 단어

Question 1

Instrumentation

Answer 1

The specific instruments chosen for a piece of music

Question 2

Orchestration

Answer 2

The way a composer uses the instruments in a piece of music

Question 3

Overture

Answer 3

An orchestral introduction to an opera

Question 4

Surface Rhythms

Answer 4

The audible durations in a piece of music

Question 5

Ground bass

Answer 5

A repeating bass line

Question 6

Passacaglia

Answer 6

A piece of music that is built on a ground bass

Question 7

Chord Progression

Answer 7

A series of chords presented one after another, in time

Question 8

Subject

Answer 8

The main melody in a fugue

Question 9

Countersubject

Answer 9

The secondary melody in a fugue; it always accompanies the subject

Question 10

Motive (motif)

Answer 10

A short fragment of melody that is repeated

Question 11

Sequence

Answer 11

A motive that is repeated at progressively higher or lower pitch levels

Question 12

Libretto

Answer 12

The script (“little book”) for an opera or oratorio

Question 13

Tritone

Answer 13

Diabolus in musica (the devil’s interval): a very dissonant interval that decides the octave in the exact center