Styles Flashcards

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What is the style of music written for a small instrument ensemble with one player to a part

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Chamber music

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What is the name for a 20th century style we’re musical ideas emerge and create a blur,, dream like

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Impressionist

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What is the style for a combo of jazz improvisation and the amplified instruments and character of rock

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Jazz funk

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What is a German style song from the romantic period for voice and Poona in which both parts are important

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Lied

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What is A large scale sacred work sung in Latin for solo singers chorus and orchestra

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Mass

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What is the style called: a 20th century composition using pre recorded live sounds made with simple editing like cutting and rewinding

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Musique concrète

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What is the style of a large scale work without acting or stage design usually for solo singers chorus and orchestra include arias choruses and recitaves

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Oratorio

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What is an unaccompanied melody in Latin from the Roman Catholic liturgy e.g. modal with no metre

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Plainchant

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What is a type of vocal writing where the music follows the rhythm of speech (often followed by an aria)

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Recitative

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A work for a solo instrument like piano violin etc in three or four movements

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Sonata

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What is an Afro American popular music including blues and gospel and strong emotions

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Soul music

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A group of two violins a viola and a cello

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String quartet

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What is a solo sound in operatic style

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Aria

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what is an unaccompanied folk song, story telling

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Bothy ballad

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What is a style of Celtic folk mixed with rock

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Celtic rock

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What is a style either a group of singers or music written for theses singers

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Chorus

17
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Music from 1750-1810

Think Mozart

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Classical

18
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Slow unaccompanied Gaelic church tunes, sounds like buzzing

A

Gaelic psalms

19
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Religious lyrics in popular style

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Gospel

20
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Will include sugar and tabla

A

Indian

21
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20th century style where simple rhythmic and melodic figures are constantly repeated with little change

A

Minimalist

22
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Classical form of bagpipes

A

Pibroch

23
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A large work orchestra usually in four movements

A

Symphony

24
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Gaelic work song while beating tweed

A

Waulking song

25
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1600-1750

Think harpsichord

A

Baroque

26
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African drums and voices

A

African music

27
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A work for a solo instrument and orchestra

A

Concerto

28
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Gaelic nonsense

A

Mouth music

29
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Drama set to music with solo chorus and orchestra and acting

A

Opera

30
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Syncopated melody against steady vamped accompaniment (think Charlie Chaplin)

A

Ragtime

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Music written between 1750-1810

VeryVERY emotional and dramatic

A

Romantic

32
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Slow Scottish story sang usually a woman

A

Scots ballad

33
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Jazz style from 1930 by a big band

A

Swing