Styles
What style is characterized by a strong back beat, electrified sounds, and analog synthesizers.
Jazz Funk
Name all types of Cadences
Plagal, Interrupted, Perfect, Inperfect
An increase in the length of notes.
Augmentation
What consists of a single bass line with a keyboard part filling in the harmonies
Basso Continuo
What instrements are in a String Quartet?
Two violins, a viola and a cello.
A style of Afro-American popular music including elements of blues and gospel and conveying strong emotions.
Soul music
What Style has a prominent solo instrument part in a piece of vocal music?
Obbligato
A decrease in the length of notes.
Diminution
A small group of soloists contrasts with a larger group of instrumentalists.
Concerto grosso
The small group of solo instrumentalists in a concerto grosso.
Concertino
An a large scale work without acting or stage design. It is usually based on a story from the Bible set to music for solo singers, chorus and orchestra.
oratorio
The final chord of a piece in a minor key is changed to major. Some may say "Sunshine"
Tierce de Picardie
an unusual number of beats in a bar, some say you just cant place it
Irregular time signatures
A vocal piece in which there is little or no repetition of the music.
Through-composed
The main group of ensemble instruments in a concerto grosso.
Ripieno
20th century style of composition using pre-recorded live sounds
Musique concrète
This Style sounds very middle eastern
Harmonic minor scale
Groupings of notes change, but the underlying pulse remains constant.
Time changes
Variations over a ground bass.
passacaglia
Literally ‘trembling’. Rapid repetition of a note (string instrument) or rapid alternation of two notes (any instrument).
Tremolando
A 20th century style where brief musical ideas merge and change to create a rather blurred and vague outline. Some say dreamy
Impressionist
What ornament which sounds like a crushed note played very quickly on the beat or just before it.
Acciaccatura
a group of three notes played in the time of two.
Triplets
The main theme in a composition, the main themes in sonata form, or the main theme on which a fugue is based.
subject
High, florid singing involving elaborate ornamentation of a melody.
Coloratura