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Parlez vous?
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Literary text for an OPERA or other musical stage work.
What is a liberetto?
100
(1) In ancient Greek music, adjective describing a TETRACHORD comprising a minor third and two SEMITONES, or a MELODY that uses such tetrachords. (2) Adjective describing a melody that uses two or more successive semitones in the same direction, a SCALE consisting exclusively of semitones, an INTERVAL or CHORD that draws NOTES from more than one DIATONIC scale, or music that uses many such melodies or chords.
What is a chromatic?
100
School that specializes in teaching music.
What is a conservatory?
100
A type of POPULAR MUSIC associated primarily with white southerners, that blends elements of FOLK MUSIC, POPULAR SONG, and other traditions.
What is country music?
100
English or French song for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment, setting rhymed poetry, often STROPHIC, and usually in the METER of a dance.
What is Air?
200
(1) In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, any section of an Italian STROPHIC poem for a solo singer. (2) Lyrical monologue in an OPERA or other vocal work such as CANTATA and ORATORIO.
What is an Aria?
200
In music history, the era from about 1730 to about 1815, between and overlapping the BAROQUE and ROMANTIC PERIODS.
What is the Classical Period?
200
Music based on sounds that are produced or modified through electronic means.
What is electronic music?
200
Highly stylized DANCE in BINARY FORM, in moderately fast quadruple METER with almost continuous movement, beginning with an upbeat. Popular during the RENAISSANCE and BAROQUE; appearing often as the first dance in a SUITE.
What is Allemande?
300
(1) Instrumental COMPOSITION that resembles an IMPROVISATION or lacks a strict FORM. (2) IMITATIVE instrumental piece on a single subject. finale Last MOVEMENT of a work in three or more movements
What is fantasia?
300
(1) In ancient Greek music, adjective describing a TETRACHORD comprising a major third and two quartertones, or a MELODY that uses such tetrachords. (2) Adjective describing the relationship between two pitches that are notated differently but sound alike when played, such as G# and Ab.
What is enharmonic?
300
(1) The process of reworking, recombining, fragmenting, and varying given THEMES or other material. (2) In SONATA FORM, the section after the EXPOSITION, which MODULATES through a variety of KEYS and in which THEMES from the exposition are presented in new ways.
What is development?
300
(1) Common term for ART MUSIC of all PERIODS, as distinct from POPULAR MUSIC OR FOLK MUSIC. (2) Music in the tradition of the repertoire of musical masterworks that formed in the nineteenth century, including lesser works in the same GENRES (such as OPERA, ORATORIO, SYMPHONY, SONATA, STRING QUARTET, and ART SONG) or for the same performing forces and newly composed works intended as part of the same tradition. (3) Music in the CLASSICAL PERIOD.
What is Classical Music?
300
An instrumental piece designed to develop a particular skill or performing technique. Certain nineteenth-century ones contain significant artistic content and were played in concert.
What is an étude?
400
Broken-CHORD figure.
What is an arpeggio?
400
(1) In ancient Greek music, adjective describing a TETRACHORD with two WHOLE TONES and one SEMITONE. (2) Name for a SCALE that includes five whole tones and two semitones, where the semitones are separated by two or three whole tones. (3) Adjective describing a MELODY, CHORD, or passage based exclusively on a single diatonic scale.
What is diatonic?
400
PERIOD of music history from about 1600 to about 1750, overlapping the late RENAISSANCE and early CLASSICAL periods.
What is Baroque?
400
(1) African-American vocal GENRE that is based on a simple repetitive formula and characterized by a distinctive style of performance. (2) TWELVE-BAR BLUES.
What is the blues?
400
French for "jig"; Stylized DANCE movement of a standard BAROQUE SUITE, in BINARY FORM, marked by fast compound METER such as or with wide MELODIC leaps and continuous triplets. The two sections usually both begin with IMITATION.
What is gigue?
500
Ground bass; A pattern in the BASS that repeats while the MELODY above it changes.
What is basso ostinato?
500
Ancient Greek term with multiple meanings: (1) the union of parts in an orderly whole; (2) INTERVAL; (3) SCALE type; (4) style of MELODY.
What is harmonia?
500
Early-twentieth-century term derived from art, in which music avoids all traditional forms of "beauty" in order to express deep personal feelings through exaggerated gestures, angular MELODIES, and extreme DISSONANCE.
What is expressionism?
500
Term coined in the 1950s for music that reflected the tastes and styles popular with the teen and young-adult market.
What is pop music?
500
Means "opening" in French
What is an ouverture?