Ornaments
Italian
Poetic Meter
Treatises
Varia
100

This added note often moves by step and leans dissonantly on consonant note.

What is the appoggiatura?

100

This describes the phenomenon in Italian where certain initial consonants are doubled, usually because of the previous word.

What is phrasal doubling?

100
Versi lirici has equal verse length as well as this common feature of poetry.

What is rhyme?

100

This teacher wrote "A Complete Treatise on the Art of Singing" in two parts

Who is García?

100
Rotella refers to practicing in this mode
What is the trust mode?
200

This ornament does not take any rhythmic time of its own and moves by step, "crushing" the main note.

What is the acciaccatura?

200

These two words mean "and" and "is", both provoke phrasal doubling, and are pronounced differently.

What are "e and è"?

200
Recitative is written in this verse form.

What is versi sciolti?

200
Virtually every treatise refers to the register change in every voice at this pitch/these pitches.

What is E4 or F4?

200

Messa di voce is an exercise to train this aspect of vocal technique.

What is registration?

300

This ornament has 4 or 5 notes.

What is the turn?
300

This consonant is never pronounced in Italian as it is in English.

What is Z?

300

Words with accent pattern like tàvolo, indòmito, ascóltano are called this.

What is sdrucciolo?

300

In treatises writers would often refer to what vocal feat as a "shake"?

What is a trill?

300

The Baroque and Classical cadenza is on this chord

What is the 6/4 chord?

400

This ornament comes from the Italian word for "biting."

What is the mordent?

400

This is the consonant sound that the first N in Simon Boccanegra makes.

What is M?

400

Caro mio ben is an example of this line length.

What is a quinario?

400

Mengozzi compiled the Singing Method of which school?

What is the Paris Conservatory?
400

This is what Italians would have called a tortorella.

What is a turtledove?

500

This is the German word for "slide" - the ornament of attack that fills out a third or fourth.

What is the Schleifer?

500

This aspect of sentence construction was not important in Latin at all but can be confusing in Italian poems.

What is syntax or word order?

500

What consonant was often removed from verb conjugations in poetic Italian to conform to poetic meter?

What is V?

500

This theorist published a book of "Songs and Duetts" where he published the notated music as well as the way it was sung, giving us a lot of information about appoggiaturas and ornaments.

Who is Corri?

500

Notes in these kind of rhythms generally have written accents in Italian music.

What are syncopations?

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