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Musical Terms Flashcards

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Consonance

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Notes at rest.

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Dissonance

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Notes that need to be resolved.

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Pitch/Interval

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Pitch is the frequency of a note, interval is a grouping of pitches in ascending frequency.

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Tonic/Dom./Sub-Dom.

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  1. Tonic (I): Home base, consonant, works like the subject of the sentence.
  2. Dominant (V): Dissonant, works like the verb in a sentence.
  3. Sub-Dominant (IV): Dissonant, less dissonant than the dominant. Works as an adverb in a sentence.
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Measure/Bar

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Groupings of the basic beat in sets.

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Rhythm

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Includes the basic beat and everything that is played in a given tempo.

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Tempo

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How many beats per minute. How fast the music is.

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Instrument Families

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Strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and keyboard instruments.

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Ensembles

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  1. Symphony Orchestra: primarily strings with various woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
  2. Symphonic Band: like the high school marching band.
  3. String Quartet: two violins, one viola, one cello.
  4. Brass & Woodwind Quintet
  5. Choirs and Chorus
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Music Period Dates

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Middle Ages 500-1450
Renaissance 1450-1600
Baroque 1600-1750
Classical 1750-1825
Romantic 1825-1900
Modern 1900-Present
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Gregorian Chant

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Early monophonic music in the church. Called gregorian because of Pope Gregory.

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Mass (proper and ordinary)

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Proper (text changes weekly)
Ordinary (text stays the same):
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Angus Dei
Ite, missa est
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Notre Dame School

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First users of polyphonic music, organum, and motet. Leonin and Perotin.

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Organum

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Two voiced composition

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Motet

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Three or Four voiced composition

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Jongleurs

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Secular musicians that Served as “CNN” of middle ages, spreading news in the form of music and poetry. Mostly homeless beggars

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Troubadours and Trouveres

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Secular musicians that were in someway attached to nobility/courtship.

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Text painting (word Painting)

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Heightening the dramatic impression of words using musical “tricks”. Using extreme dissonances, chromatic passages, dramatic melodic leaps, and other non-conventional methods.

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Cantus firmus

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“Fixed song.” Usually a repeating section of monophonic music.

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Madrigal

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Multi-voiced pieces with no musical accompaniment. Popular in renaissance period.

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Monophonic

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Music with a single line of melody.

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Polyphonic

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Music with 2 or more lines of melody.

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Monody

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Single line of melody over a simple instrumental accompaniment. Made the vocals easier to understand with little polyphony.

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Florentine Camerata

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Informal group of writers, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists. Did research into how the Greeks used music and drama.

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Figured Bass/Basso Continuo

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The instrumental accompaniment to a monodic opera. Usually consisting of 1-2 instruments.

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Opera

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Drama set to music.

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Opera: Aria

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Solo vocal style for opera

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Opera: Recitative

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A singing pattern very similar to speech, allowing the drama to unfold quicker, and ease of understanding.

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Opera: Castrato Singers

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Vocally talented young boys whom were castrated so as to make their voices higher. (more soprano)

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Conterpoint

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counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are interdependent harmonically (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.

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Fugue

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A structure/texture of writing music based on a repeating melody. To be improvised upon

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Fugue: subject

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The main melody of the fugue.

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Fugue: countersubject

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A secondary melody in the fugue used to compliment the first melody.

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Fugue: answer

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Follows the same melodic shape as the “subject” but starts on the Dominant (V) note.

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Fugue: exposition

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The subject, countersubject, and answer all grouped into one piece of music.

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Fugue: episodes

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Spin offs of the main exposition of the piece/small additions.

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Trio Sonata

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Two violins with continuo accompaniment (another instrument in the background)

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Sonata da cheisa

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(church sonata)

Alternating slow and fast movements.

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Sonata da camera

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(chamber sonata)

Generic introductory movement followed by dance movements.

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Italian Overture

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fast-slow-fast

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French Overture

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slow-fast-slow

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French Suite

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An overture followed by several individual dance movements such as allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue.

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Solo Concerto

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A three movement work (fast-slow-fast) for a single solo instrument. Usually violin, flute, or oboe.

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Concerto Grosso

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Pitted a small group of instruments against the full orchestra.

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Concerto Grosso: tutti (or ripieno)

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Tutti/Ripieno: the small group of instruments.

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Concerto Grosso: concertino

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Concertino: the entire orchestra.

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Cantata

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a medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.

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Oratorio

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a large-scale musical work for orchestra and voices, typically a narrative on a religious theme, performed without the use of costumes, scenery, or action.

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