Forms, Forms, Forms
The beginning part of sonata form.
What is the exposition?
A common use of volumes of baroque music that contrasts sudden loud and soft volumes.
What are terraced dynamics?
A religious work not sung in Latin. Bach wrote many of these.
What is a cantata
A large scale work for soloist and full orchestra.
What is a concerto?
The father of the fugue.
Who was J.S. Bach?
Typically, the form used in the first movement of a sonata, symphony, or concerto.
What is sonata form?
What is the harpsichord?
The master of the oratorio.
Who was Handel?
A multi-movement work for three musicians.
What is a trio?
A fugue also goes through this central section of exploration, just like what happens in the middle of a sonata.
What is a development.
The middle part of sonata form.
The Magic Flute, Orfeo, and Don Giovanni are examples of these...
What are operas?
What is a fantasia?
A short piece that often comes before a fugue.
What is a prelude?
When you transcribe a melody upside down.
What is inversion?
The composer that added another movement to the symphony.
Who was Stamitz?
This type of piece, based from Lutheran hymn, has a slight pause after every cadence.
What is a chorale?
A collection of dance music.
What is a suite?
A mass for the dead.
What is a requiem?
When you transcribe a melody backwards.
What is retrograde?
The difference between the exposition and the recapitulation is that the recapitulation is played fully in what key?
The tonic, or home key.
A contrapuntal work for four or more melodic lines.
What is a fugue?
A introductory piece for keyboard designed to show of the performer's touch and skill.
What is a toccata?
It's typically the tempo of the second movement of a symphony, concerto, or sonata.
What is slow?
When you transcribe a melody backwards and upside down.
What is retrograde inversion?