types of pieces/forms
strophic form
repeating form
musice corrido
Mexican popular music genre- narrative ballade preserving oral history set to a waltz or polka rhythm-simple harmonies
Bolero
with cuban claves, mexican love song- 3 dances; tango, waltz, rumba
tenuto- line across top of note
played to full length
con sordino
with mute
composite ternary
1 or more sections comprises a complete musical form ex. a section has an a and b within it
xylophones, banjos, marimbas
polonise
3/4 slow or march like
coloratura
high soprano ornamentation in opera
cambiata
changing voice in boys
sonata
3 section musical form exploring a central theme; exposition, development, recap
intermezzo
short works in between big ones
sarabane
3/4 stress on 2nd beat of bar 1st beat is short
auxiliary tones/ mordent
neighbor tones/ ornamentation
ripieno
full orchestra
heterophonic
simultaneous performance of dif versions of the same melody by dif voices or instruments- like desifinado by stan getz
monophonic, intervals of 3rds, dissonant, landini cadence, no functional tonality
symphonic/tone poem
piece of orchestral music in a single continuous movement- illustrates or evokes the content of art (poem,short story novel painitng) one movement
Phrygian cadence
ending on dom
marcao
loudly and forcefully
parallel period in melody
the melodies in both phrases begin on similarly and end on tonic
17th/18th century german aesthetic preferences
impressionistic
static harmony, emphasis on instrumental timbres that creates a shimmering interplay of colors melodies that lack directed motion, surface ornamentation melody and avoidance of traditional musical form
landini cadence
the leading tone drops to the 6th of the scale before approaching the final tonic note
leggiero
lightly and gracefully