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Musical Terms Flashcards

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What is the term for a keyboard (organ, harpsichord) composition in free, idiomatic keyboard style?

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Toccata

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What is a composition for solo voice?

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Aria

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What is a short light piece, usually for piano

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Bagatelle

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A piece intended to be played slow is known as what?

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Adagio

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What is the name of a composition that features drum rolls, fanfares, etc

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Battaglia

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What is a musical composition for voices with musical accompaniment across several movements?

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Cantata

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What is a composition for orchestra and solo instrument

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Concerto

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In a musical piece what do you call two or more melodic lines that sound simultaneously

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Counterpoint

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What is the name for a piece performed between acts of an opera or play

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Entr’acte

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What is a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point or technique, sometimes designed purely for study, sometimes also for public performance?

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Etude

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What is a polyphonic composition based upon one or more themes enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end?

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Fugue

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In Baroque suites, what is one of the four standard dance movements, often the final one; evolved from the Irish or English jig.

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Gigue

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What term was Coined by Wagner to designate certain motifs used in association with certain characters, ideas, or situations in his music?

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Leitmotif

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What is the text of an opera or oratorio?

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Libretto

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Name a French country dance introduced at the court of Louis XIV around 1650.

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Minuet

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What was an important form of polyphonic music during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, usually an unaccompanied choral composition based on a Latin sacred text?

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Motet

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What is the name for an extended musical composition with a text more or less dramatic in character and usually based upon a religious theme, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, and performed without action, costume, or scenery?

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Oratorio

18
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What is the name for a constantly recurring melodic fragment?

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Ostinato

19
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An instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation?

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Rhapsody

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What is the name of the musical style of the middle 18th century, marked by a generally superficial elegance and charm and by the use of elaborate ornamentation and stereotyped devices.

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Rococo?

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What is the name for a work or movement, often the last movement of a sonata, having one principal subject that is stated at least three times in the same key and to which return is made after the introduction of each subordinate theme.

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Rondo

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What is the name of a movement, usually the third, of sonatas, symphonies, and quartets (rarely concertos) that Beethoven first used to replace the minuet? It is generally characterized by a quick tempo, vigorous rhythm, and elements of surprise.

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Scherzo

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In the Baroque period what was the name for orchestral pieces of Italian origin, designed to serve as an introduction to an opera or operatic scene, an orchestral suite, or a cantata.

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Symphony

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What is the name for a composition of usually three or four movements for solo instrument, often with piano accompaniment. The normal scheme for the movements is allegro, adagio, scherzo (or minuet), and allegro. A slow introduction sometimes precedes the opening allegro.

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Sonata

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What is the name for a keyboard (organ, harpsichord) composition in free, idiomatic keyboard style. From about 1600 the name was also used for a festive brass fanfare.

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Toccata

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What is a musical composition when a solo instrument plays with an orchestra?

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Concerto

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