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Periods And Styles Flashcards

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Plainsong

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Type of religious chanting featured in church music

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Chorus

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Organised group of singers

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Baroque

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Repetition
Sequences
Polyphonic meolody
Contrapuntal phrases
Sounds like instruments imitating eachohter

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Baroque instruments

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Violin
Cello
Viola
Double bass
Reorder
Wooden flute
Oboe
Bassoon
Harpsichord (stacatto sounds)
Timpani (kettle drums)

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Contrapuntal

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2 or melodies playing at once with equal importance

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Classical

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Beautiful melodies
Homophonic accompaniments
Alberti bass line
Symphony
Concerto
Binary, ternary and rondo forms

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Classical instruments

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Violin
Viola
Cello
Double bass
Guitar
Recorder
Wooden flute
Oboe
Bassoon
Clarinet
Trumpet
Horns
Timpani
Triangle
Cymbals
Bass drums
Fortepiano

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Alberti bass line

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Broken chords played lowest, highest, middle, highest

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Symphony

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Large piece of orchestral music with four movements all with different tempos and moods

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Concerto

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Work for a solo instrument accompanies by an orchestra

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Binary

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AB
Music with 2 clear sections

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Ternary

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ABA
2 sections then returned to frst

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Rondo

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ABACA
Music keeps retuning to first section

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Coda

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Final section in a piece of music

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Romantic

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Larger orchestras
Rubato
Different harmonies and modulations
Crescendo
Dimuendo
Sforzando
Timbral colour

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Timbre

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Tone of musical sound

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Romantic instruments

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Larger string section
Flute
Piccolo
Oboe
Bassoon
Double bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
French horn
Tuba
Full percussion section
Piano

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Minimalist

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Compositions based on short Ostinatos and patterns
Hypnotic Fechtsport
Layers of instruments and sounds

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Minimalist instruments

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Acoustic along electronic

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Opera

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Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Vibrato
Melismatic
Syllabic

21
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Vibrato

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Playing/ singing with quick, slightly varying pitch

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Melismatic

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More than one note played per syllable

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Syllabic

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One note sung per syllable

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