Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Vocab 3
Vocab 4
100
Gradually faster
What is Accelarando?
100
Musical form in 2 related sections, both usually repeated; A-A-B-B
What is Binary form?
100
intervals that cause tension and desire to resolve
What is dissonance?
100
a glide from one pitch to another
What is a glissando?
200
Agitato
What is agitated?
200
lightly down and up bow that gently brushes the string
What is brush stroke?
200
Sweetly, in a sweet manner
What is Dolce?
200
high pitched tones, produced when a musician lightly touches certain points on a string
What are harmonics?
300
Cut Time, 2/2
What is Alle Breve?
300
1750-1820, Lighter and clearer texture and less complex than baroque, homophonic w/ clear melody; Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert
What is the classical period?
300
musical flourishes, added notes to add interest and variety
What is embellishment?
300
a dance of slow or moderate tempo, sometimes in simple triple meter, more often in compound duple meter
what is a loure?
400
Animated; To play w/ Excitement and Spirit
What is animato?
400
beats in compound meter are divided into three. 6, 9, 12, 15 Etc
What is compound meter?
400
with expression
What is Expressivo?
500
1600-1750, The development of tonality, Dance Suite Popular, Improvisers, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Pachelbel
What is the Baroque period?
500
intervals that pleasant or agreeable, harmonies
What is Consonance?
500
an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter
What is a Gavotte?