Mostly Determinate Forms
In classical Indian music, the junior member of the orchestra typically keeps the incense lit and plays this drone instrument.
What is the tambura?
This is the action I take when I repeat a phrase that was piano, but now is forte.
What is "change the dynamics?"
I should ask for this if I want to use someone else's music for my choreography project.
What is permission?
This kind of music was sung by monks in the middle ages for religious purposes, everyone on the same melody.
What is chant?
This composer wrote the first symphony.
Who was Johann Stamitz?
In Sonata Form, this section is optional, and if used, comes at the end.
What is the coda?
This is the action I take when I change from a soloist playing monophonically, to a soloist playing homophonically with accompaniment.
What is "changing the texture?"
This is the person who went first, if the music is created without ever seeing the dance.
Who is the composer?
This is a musical composing technique for which many consider Johann Sebastian Bach to be the master for all time.
What is counterpoint?
This was one of the first composers to write songs that invoked images of nature to convey human emotions, and he did it more than 600 times!
Who was Franz Schubert?
This rondo classical form is actually the structure for this section of the Indian Raga form.
What is Gat?
This is the action I take when I change from legato to staccato.
What is "change the articulation?"
This person went last if the composer never saw the dance before composing the music.
Who is the choreographer?
When choir boys voices were first added to singing monks voices, they sang harmony in this musical interval.
What is an octave?
This form of music popularized by George Frederic Händel, though it was choral music written in English with religious themes, was performed in theaters instead of churches when first introduced.
What is oratorio?
In the pattern of sections for a typical Ragtime piece, A A B B A C C D D, this letter corresponds to the section that is in a different key than the others.
What is C?
This is what I put in place of a note, if I take the action to have silence instead of sound.
What is a rest?
This is what you need an abundance of, if the composer and choreographer are going to each produce several versions of their product before the project is finished
What is time?
This invention, a chromatic scale with 12 notes, sounds equally in tune no matter what key the song is in.
What is an equal tempered scale?
This composer, famous for memorable melodies, was able to sustain himself without support of a wealthy noble or clergy, by writing and performing the popular music of his day.
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
In the increasing length of musical forms, this one is typically longer than a phrase, but shorter than a movement.
What is a section?
I take this action when repeating a section that was in the key of C major, and is now in the key of C minor.
What is "change the mode?"
This is another word for derivative work, which either a composer or a choreographer has the right to refuse to the other.
What is an adaptation?
This kind of harmony is sung a perfect fourth or perfect fifth above the melody.
What is organum?
This composer's long, loud and grandiose compositions were a perfect accompaniment to the clanging factories sprouting up at the beginning of Europe's industrial revolution.
Who was Ludwig von Beethoven?