Harmony
This harmony is almost always seen in first inversion. Why?
Neapolitan.
Fa based pre-dominant.
This term means to play on the off-beats.
Syncopation
Theme & Variations.
This instrument is tuned by Perfect 4ths.
Double Bass.
This composer redefined the social status of musicians from servanthood to praised geniuses.
Ludwig van Beethoven.
This specific cadence ends with iv6 going to V.
Why is it given this particular name?
Phrygian Half-Cadence.
Phrygian scale starts with a halfstep.
These two terms refer to:
1. meters that subdivide into duplets,
2. meters that subdivide into triplets.
Simple Meter
and
Compound Meter.
This large scale form is traditionally also a rounded binary (A BA').
Sonata Form.
This instrument tunes the orchestra. Why?
Oboe. Because it has the most stable sense of pitch, and does not bend pitch easily.
These two virtuosic pianists are accredited for creating the solo-piano-recital as we know it.
Franz Liszt & Clara Schumann
This highly chromatic harmony also fits into a whole-tone collection.
French Augmented 6th.
Perform a 3 against 4 polyrhythm.
"Pass the salt and pepper"
This melodic form is often referred to as "call and response" in other genres.
Period.
Playing near this part of a string instrument creates a louder and scratchier sound.
The Bridge.
The blues-scale's minor/major mixture comes from this stylistic practice.
Pitch bending/sliding in African-American music, such as spirituals.
This harmony can resolve four different ways while maintaining the same function.
Enharmonic fully diminished 7th chord.
This technique manipulates a sense of meter and beat hierarchy.
Hemiola.
Voices that are simultaneous with the subject, but are NOT the countersubject are using this compositional technique.
Free Counterpoint.
This vocal technique features multiple pitches on a syllable.
Melisma.
Legend says this violinist acquired super-human virtuosity by selling his soul to the devil.
Niccolo Paganini.
(All his teeth fell off.)
Name the first 7 pitches of the overtone series, either by scale degree or by interval (including the bass pitch).
Bass, P8, P5, P4, M3, m3, m3
or
Bass, 1, 5, 1, 3, 5, flat-7
Define "hypermeter".
Feeling metrical patterns by the measure instead of by smaller beats.
This melodic form is the descendant of Fortspinnung which means "spinning forward".
Sentence. Fortspinnung featured short fragments, eventually spinning off into a longer phrase.
Bach's favorite keyboard instrument, which predates the fortepiano, was capable of a dynamic spectrum.
Clavichord.
This is the oldest instrument ever discovered by archeologists, estimated to be 60,000 years old.
Bone flute in Slovenia.