Music Genres
Music Genres II
Composition Forms
Expression Markings
Expression II
100
A fervent style of black American evangelical religious singing, developed from spirituals sung in Southern Baptist and Pentecostal churches.
What is gospel
100
A piece of music in which two or more voices (or instrumental parts) sing or play the same music starting at different times.
What is a canon
100
A medium-length composition for voices, with instrumental accompaniment and often featuring solos, chorus, and orchestra.
What is a cantata
100
Italian for "expressively"
What is espressivo
100
Italian for "played with emphasis"
What is marcato
200
A style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patterns glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
What is rap
200
A slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century.
What is a minuet
200
Handel's "Messiah" and Haydn's "The Creation" are examples of this composition form.
What is an oratorio
200
Italian for "sweetly"
What is dolce
200
Italian for "without"
What is senza
300
A form of popular music of African-American origin that arose during the 1940s from blues, with the addition of driving rhythms taken from jazz. It was an immediate precursor of rock and roll.
What is rhythm and blues
300
A contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving parts.
What is a fugue
300
A combination of two or more melodies that are played together; something that is different from something else in a usually pleasing way.
What is counterpoint
300
Italian for "a smooth singing style"
What is cantabile
300
Italian for "detached"
What is staccato
400
Music characterized by a syncopated melodic line and regularly accented accompaniment, evolved by black American musicians in the 1890s and played especially on the piano.
What is ragtime
400
A short musical composition, typically for one instrument, designed as an exercise to improve the technique or demonstrate the skill of the player.
What is an etude
400
The style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other.
What is polyphony
400
Italian for "gracefully"
What is grazioso
400
Italian for "slightly more"
What is tenuto
500
A part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment. Originally of a genre of 14th-century Italian songs, the term now usually refers to English or Italian songs of the late 16th and 17th centuries, in a free style strongly influenced by the text.
What is a madrigal
500
A musical form with a recurring leading theme, often found in the final movement of a sonata or concerto.
What is a rondo.
500
A type of texture characterized by the simultaneous variation of a single melodic line.
What is heterophony
500
Italian for "smooth and flowing"
What is legato
500
Italian for "very" and "little"
What is molto and poco
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