A short conclusion that does not fit the form of the rest of a piece; Italian for "tail."
What is the coda?
100
In the Romantic Era, this instrumental music has no specified meaning or relationship to a story.
What is absolute music?
100
Composers in this movement adopt stylistic idioms that imitated presumably primitive art.
What is primitivism?
100
He was the leading English composer of the late 17th century.
Who is Purcell?
100
This voice range often plays the leading female character in an opera.
What is soprano?
200
This is a short section for a soloist to perform a detailed and virtuosic passage (without accompaniment).
What is a cadenza?
200
In the fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, this religious melody is intermingled with the witches' dance.
What is "Dies irae"?
200
This genre combines European-American with African-American and Afro-Cuban musical traditions.
What is jazz?
200
This composer wrote the most famous and clear example of program music.
Who is Berlioz?
200
This style of operatic piece is sung quickly, as though spoken. It carries the dramatic action, moving the plot forward.
What is recitative?
300
This type of texture describes a single melodic line, whether sung/played by a single voice or by many voices in unison.
What is monophony?
300
In 1802 this composer wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter to his brothers Karl and Johann regarding his deafness and related depression.
Who is Beethoven?
300
The essential feature of Schoenberg's expressionist music.
What is atonality?
300
He was the most well-known composer of the Counter-Reformation.
Who is Palestrina?
300
This genre of vocal music was created in 17th-century (1600s) Italy.
What is opera?
400
A setting of a melody in which one pitch is assigned to each syllable of a text.
What is syllabic?
400
His works for piano usually depicted or expressed a particular character.
Who is Chopin?
400
Artists in this movement relied not on sensual appeal, but on a deliberate attack on the senses.
What is expressionism?
400
This composer's second phase of compositional style often features relentlessly driving rhythms, motives, unstable structures, and unity throughout an entire piece.
Who is Beethoven?
400
The theme associated with "the artist's love" (or, autobiographically, Harriet Smithson) in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
What is the idée fixe?
500
A meter in which the basic beat of the measure may be counted in two or four.
What is duple meter?
500
These are the six themes most commonly associated with Romantic art and music.
What are: longing, love, death, religion, politics, nature?
500
This jazz style was an important development for popular music in the early twentieth century, centered mostly in New York City.
What is swing?
500
This composer's The Rite of Spring adopted a stylistic idiom that imitated presumably primitive art.
Who is Stravinsky?
500
In this type of texture, the same melody is sung or played by two or more parts at different times, with each line of equal importance. A round is an example.