WEEK 4 TERMS

Question 1

Fugato

Answer 1

a piece of music that resembles fugue in some ways but lacks certain necessary characteristics of a true fugue; or a loosely fugal passage within a predominantly non-fugal movement

Question 2

libretto

Answer 2

a printed or manuscript book giving the literary text, both sung and spoken, of an opera (or other musical work)

Question 3

recitativo secco

Answer 3

a 19th-century term for recitative accompanied (normally) by a keyboard instrument instead of by the orchestra

Question 4

Aria

Answer 4

typically a closed lyrical piece for solo voice with or without instrumental accompaniment, either independent or forming part of an opera, oratorio, cantata, or other large work (common-practice operas usually have arias preceded by recitatives)

Question 5

theme

Answer 5

an identifiable motif or idea; musical material on which part or all of a work is based, usually having a recognizable melody.