Type or category of musical COMPOSITION, such as SONATA or SYMPHONY.
What is genre?
100
Movement in the RENAISSANCE to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture and to study things pertaining to human knowledge and experience.
What is humanism?
100
Speed of performance, or relative pace of the music.
What is tempo?
100
A musical style that emerged in the United States in the mid-1950s as a blend of black and white traditions of POPULAR MUSIC, primarily RHYTHM-AND-BLUES, COUNTRY MUSIC, POP MUSIC, and TIN PAN ALLEY.
What is rock and roll?
100
BAROQUE term for a set of VARIATIONS on a MELODY or BASS line.
What is partita?
200
NOTE or notes sustained throughout an entire piece or section.
What is a drone?
200
Late-nineteenth-century term derived from art, used for music that evokes moods and visual imagery through colorful HARMONY and instrumental TIMBRE.
What is impressionism?
200
An interval equivalent to two SEMITONES.
What is a whole step?
200
A sound of definite pitch.
What is tone?
200
CONCERTO in which a single instrument, such as a VIOLIN, contrasts with an ORCHESTRA
What is a solo concerto?
300
The act or process of creating new pieces of music, or a piece that results from this process and is substantially similar each time it is performed; usually distinguished from IMPROVISATION and performance.
What is composition?
300
PERIOD of art, cultural, and music history between the Middle Ages and the BAROQUE PERIOD, marked by HUMANISM, a revival of ancient culture and ideas, and a new focus on the individual, the world, and the senses.
What is the Renaissance?
300
The process of reworking a given MELODY, song, THEME, or other musical idea, or the resulting varied FORM of it
What is a variation?
300
Performer who specializes in one instrument and dazzles audiences with his or her technical prowess.
What is a virtuoso?
300
Temporary disruption of METER by beginning a long NOTE on an offbeat and sustaining it through the beginning of the next beat.
What is syncopation?
400
Slight drop or slide in pitch on the third, fifth, or seventh degree of a MAJOR SCALE, common in BLUES and JAZZ.
What is a blue note?
400
One of the leading musical styles of the late twentieth century, in which materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures simplified so that what is going on in the music is immediately apparent. Often characterized by a constant pulse and many repetitions of simple RHYTHMIC, MELODIC, or HARMONIC patterns.
What is minimalism?
400
(1)Piece for three players or singers. (2) The second of two alternating DANCES, in the Classical-era MINUET AND TRIO FORM. (3) The second main section of a MARCH.
What is a trio?
400
(1) In both the SOLO CONCERTO and the CONCERTO GROSSO, designates the full ORCHESTRA. Also called RIPIENO (Italian, "full"). (2) Instruction to an ENSEMBLE that all should play.
What is tutti?
400
(1) Originally a quick dance-song from Latin America. (2) In French BAROQUE music, a slow DANCE in BINARY FORM and in triple METER, often emphasizing the second beat; a standard MOVEMENT of a SUITE.
What is saraband?
500
A FORM comprised of two complementary sections, each of which is repeated. The first section usually ends on the DOMINANT or the relative major, although it many end of the TONIC or other KEY; the second section returns to the tonic.
What is binary form?
500
In music history, the era from about 1730 to about 1815, between and overlapping the BAROQUE and ROMANTIC PERIODS.
What is the Classical period?
500
Three or more simultaneous NOTES heard as a single entity. In TONAL music, three or more notes that can be arranged as a succession of thirds, such as a TRIAD.
What is a chord?
500
Electronic instrument that generates and processes a wide variety of sounds
What is a synthesizer?
500
The lowest NOTE in a CHORD when it is arranged as a succession of thirds.