Performance skills beyond the norm; extraordinary technical abilities
What is Virtuosity (pg. 180)
100
A series of related poems set as songs within a larger work
What is a Song Cycle (pg. 205)
200
System of tonal organization in which pitches do NOT focus around a central tone or tonic
What is Atonality (pg. 182)
200
A mass offered to honor the dead
What is a Requiem (pg. 211)
300
This composer played a leading role in the transformation from Classical to Romantic and in elevating instrument music to a status higher than that of vocal music
Who is Beethoven (pg. 188)
300
A vocal line above the melody
What is Descant (pg. 217)
400
Song for voice and piano in which both melody and accompaniment amplify dominant themes and images in the text
What is a Lied (pg. 202)
400
An Afro-Cuban dance genre
What is Habanera (pg. 223)
500
Form in which there is NO large-scale formal repetition
What is Through-Composed (pg. 205)
500
Literally, "beautiful singing" in Italian, a vocal style that prizes evenness of sound, vocal agility, and sweetness