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Prelude
Composition for keyboard or opening for musical theatre
Primitive
Artists who are self taught
Producer
Person responsible for financing productions
Program music
textual reference to a piece of music
Protagonist
Leading character ina theatrical production
Ragtime
Jazz style/regular rhythms/syncopation
Raked stage
Stage floor w/back higher than front
Recitative and aria
words recited on pitch w/melodic extended air
Relief
sculpture projecting from backstage beam
Reliquary
Receptacle for religious relic
Renaissance
Historical era betw 1400 and 1699
Retalbo
Religious altar panal in a church
Rhythm
Movement of a uniform or patterned recurrence
Ride-rhythm
repeated rhythm played by a drum or a cymbal to keep time
Riff
Melodic fragment repeated by a group (usually jazz)
Rising action
Major focus of a plot development
Romantic
style emphasizing emotion free imagination
Rondo
Musical form with three diff sections
Scale
An arrangement of seven tones systematically from A to G
Scene designer
Creator of physical environment for a play
Sfumato
a three dimensioned style used by Leonardo
Simple meter
meter divisible by 2 (2/4, 2/2, 2/8, etc)
Sonata allegro
musical form based on contrasting themes and tonalities
Stage manager
monitor of a play/opera in production
Stele
Commemorative stone marker
Stupa
Shrine in shape of a dome or mountain
Style
Particular type, more, or expression
Sub-dominant
closely related to key center, 4th scale step
Swing
big band jazz marked by smooth flowing beat natalie is a butt head
Symphony
orchestra itself or music written for one natalie smells like feet
Syncopation
deliberate disturbance of the normal pulse in music natalie is half retarded
Tap
Dance style emphasizing rhythm and time natalie eats cereal with a fork
Tempo
Speed music natalie velasquez rodriguez
Theme
Central idea of a play or music composition natalie velasquez is a cunt
Timbre
Unique acoustic quality natalie stop reading this
Tin pan alley
Slang for anything connected with popular song composition natalie=drunk
Tonic
Key center, first scale step name or chord based on first scale name natalie and paula= lovers
Tragedy
A disastrous event carried to an unhappy conclusion
Triplet
Three notes performed in the space of two
Vaudeville
Late 19th century musical theatre
Vault
Ceiling design on the arch principle of construction
Ziggurat
Ancient Mesopotamian structure with terraces and sloping sides