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Melody
Harmony
Context
Rhythm
Style/Texture
100
Melismatic
What is the text setting of the Christe Eleison, middle section of the Kyrie (first movement)?
100
The kind of chords or harmony that began to dominate in the Romantic period, making harmony more interesting, ambiguous, and creative.
What are chromatic chords?
100
A B A - mirroring the text.
What is the overall form of the Kyrie?
100
Martial, Fanfare, or dotted rhythms
What kind of rhythms suggest the powerful authority of God in this work?
100
ppp and fff
What are extreme dynamics used in the Kyrie?
200
Lord Have Mercy, as spoken or sung in church.
What does Kyrie Eleison translate to in English?
200
Borrowed chords
What are chords taken from the parallel minor or major key used to harmonize a melody called?
200
Italian Comic Opera
What is the genre of music Rossini was "born to write?"
200
Syncopation
What is the term for stress on the weak beat?
200
Stile Antico
What is the term used to describe music written after the High Renaissance, yet still written in that style?
300
Modulation
What is the term used to describe the restatement of a melody in another key?
300
Harmonic pace
What is the rate of change in the rhythm of the harmony called?
300
The Little Mozart
What is Rossini's nickname?
300
Imitation
What is the term for a rhythm stated in one voice and then immediately after stated in another voice?
300
Ostinato
What is the term used to describe the piano part at the beginning of the Kyrie?
400
Mozart
What is the name of the composer who Rossini admired because of his melodies?
400
Secondary Dominant Chord
What is the term of a dominant 7th chord that is built on the fifth degree of the chord that follows immediately?
400
Residential Parlor or Salon
Where was Petite Messe Solenelle meant to be originally performed?
400
Hemiola
What is a rhythmic pattern of syncopated beats with two beats in the time of three or three beats in the time of two?
400
A Cappella
What is the term used to describe the middle section of the Kyrie, called the Christe Eleison; unaccompanied?
500
Imitative Polyphony
What is the term used to describe the combination of melodies that make up the 'High Renaissance' period of music, best explified by Palestrina?
500
Shock Chord
What is a sudden, accented, unexpected harmony intended to surprise the listener; often used in the classical period by Mozart, Haydn and others?
500
Dying away
What is the definition of "Smorzando?"
500
Homorhythmic.
What is the term used to describe when all musical forces are moving together exactly the same in rhythm?
500
Extended Cadence
What is a cadence that is stretched out at the end to bring a movement to an obvious conclusion?