styles

Question 1

chamber music

Answer 1

music written for small instrumental ensemble with one player to a part, for a large room or small hall

Question 2

impressionist

Answer 2

a 20th century style where brief musical ideas merge and change to create blurred and vague outlines, mystical and dreamy and slides and harps, whole tone scales

Question 3

jazz funk

Answer 3

a combination of jazz improvisation and the amplified instruments and character of rock, dancing

Question 4

lied

Answer 4

a german song from the romantic period for voice and piano in which both parts are important

Question 5

mass

Answer 5

a large scale, sacred work sung in latin for solo singers, chorus and orchestra common words: kyrie, gloria, hosanna

Question 6

music concrete

Answer 6

pre recorded live sounds e.g. a creaking door. the sounds are edited then cut, re-assembled,played backwards and slowing down and speeding up

Question 7

oratorio

Answer 7

large scale work without acting or stage design, based on a story from the bible set to the music for solo singers, chorus and orchestra often include recitatives, arias and choruses

Question 8

plainchant

Answer 8

unaccompanied melody set to the latin words of the romantic period speech, tells a story , repeat words, often followed by an aria

Question 9

recitative

Answer 9

a type of vocal writing where the music follows the rhythm of speech, tells a story, repeat words, often followed by an aria

Question 10

sonata

Answer 10

a work for solo piano or solo instrument and piano, often in three or four movements

Question 11

soul music

Answer 11

a style of afro-american popular music including elements of blues and gospel and conveying strong emotions, bass lines

Question 12

string quartet

Answer 12

two violins, a viola and a cello