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Musical Elements and Key Words Flashcards

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Accompaniment

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Musical background to the main part

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Allegro di molto e con brio (Beethoven)

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Very lively and fast

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Arpeggiation / arpeggios

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Notes of the chords are spread out from bottom to top and played quickly

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Break

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Where most instruments stop playing for a short time with one instrument or singer continuing alone

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Cantabile (Brandenburg)

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In a singing style

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Bossa Nova (SeP)

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Brazilian music derived from Samba, but slower and more subdued, placing more emphasis on melody and less on percussion

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Chord

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Simultaneous sounding of two or more notes

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Classical period (Beethoven)

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1750-1820ish

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Colla voce (Defying Gravity)

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Following the solo voice (defying gravity)

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Baroque period (Purcell, Bach)

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1600-1750 ish

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Chorus (structure)

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The refrain, where the title is often sung. Often the catchiest and loudest part of the song.

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Lament

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Sad song

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Compound time

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3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 - where the quavers are counted in the bar, not the crotchet (6/8 is 6 quavers in a bar) and they are grouped in threes, as opposed to twos.

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Concertino (Bach)

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Group of soloists in a concerto grosso

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Concerto grosso (Brandenburg)

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Popular during the Baroque period, a set of works written for a group of solo instruments (concertino) and a larger ensemble accompaniment (ripieno)

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Concerto

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Large scale composition for orchestra plus a soloist

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Continuo (Bach)

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Continuous - the group of instruments (usually harpsichord or organ, plus a cello, double bass, bass viol or bassoon etc.) used to provide the bass or the notated bass line (basso continuo)

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Counterpoint

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Two or more largely independent melodic lines are combined (TEXTURE)

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Contrapuntal

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Two or more largely independent melodic lines

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Development (Beethoven)

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Second section in sonata form, where the material from the exposition is transformed, going through several modulations.

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Cue

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Each piece of music in a film score

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Dissonant

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Dissonant chords sound and feel unstable, clashing.

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Drone

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Notes held or repeated through a passage of music

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Dynamics

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Volume - pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff etc.

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Exposition (Beethoven)

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The first section in sonata form where the musical material is first heard. First subject is in the tonic key and the second subject is usually in a different key, such as the dominant

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Extended Chord

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Chords with added notes such as 7th or 9ths

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Fanfare (Star Wars)

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A loud flourish usually played by brass

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Gigue

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A lively type of dance

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Grave (Beethoven)

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Very slow and solemn

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Ground Bass (Purcell)

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A repeating bass line

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Harpsichord (Purcell, Brandenburg)

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Early keyboard instrument where the strings are plucked instead of hammered.

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Instrumentation

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The instruments or voices used in the piece

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Key

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A piece tends to be in a major or minor key… _Major or _Minor (tonality)

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Leitmotif (Star Wars)

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Recurring musical idea associated with a character, emotion, place etc

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Loop (Release)

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A section or sample repeated over and over again

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Modulation

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Key change

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Mordent (SeP, Purcell)

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Upper or Lower, an ornament made up of the main note, the note above/below and then the main note again (played quickly)

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Multi-Tracking

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A recording technique where two or more tracks are recorded independently and then played back together

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Orchestration

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The instruments used in an arrangement

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Ornamentation

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Added notes to decorate the music (usually the melody). EG trill, turn, mordent

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Overdubbing

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Where a recorded sound is added to a previously taped recording

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Patronage

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When people used to commission songs to be written for them, thus paying the composer

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Pedal Notes

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Sustained or repeated note sounding against the changing harmony, sometimes resulting in dissonance. Usually in the bass and is generally the tonic or dominant note

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Inverted Pedal (Star Wars)

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Where the pedal note is at the top of the texture

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Polyphonic

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Lots of different musical lines being played at the same time

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Range

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The distance from the lowest note to the highest note

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Recapitulation

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The third and final section in sonata form where the music from the exposition is recapped

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Ripieno

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The larger group of players in the concerto grosso

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Seventh Chord

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Seventh chords are made by adding a seventh note to the triad

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Simple time

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2/4, 3/4, 4/4 - when crotchets are counted in the bar, and the notes are usually paired

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Slide

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When the pitch slides from one note to the next

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Sonata Form (Beethoven)

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A form based on three sections: exposition, development and recapitulation. The musical ideas from the exposition are known as the first and second subject

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Staccato

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Short, detached notes

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Legato

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Sustained, slurred notes

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Syncopation

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The effect created when offbeat notes are accented

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Anacrusis

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Where the tune starts before the 1st beat of the bar

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Tempo

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The speed of the song

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Metre

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The time signature of the song

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Texture

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The number of layers in a piece of music and how they relate to one another

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Monophonic

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One musical line

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Homophonic

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Melody and accompaniment (melody-dominated homophony), or chordal

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Tonality

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Essentially the key of the piece, major, minor, modal, atonal etc

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Tremolo

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An effect produced by the rapid performing of one note

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Triplet

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Three notes played in the time of two

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Verse

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A section of a song which is repeated, each time with different words

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Strophic

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A song structure where there are no choruses

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Viol

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A bowed string instruments during the Baroque era

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Word Painting

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Where the music reflects the meaning of the texts

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