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Serialism |
The organization of musical elements (usually pitches) sothat they occur in a fixed order repeatedly throughout the piece. |
Fixed order |
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program music |
Instrumentalmusic that tells a story or describes a picture or a scene. (Musical example:Antonio Vivaldi, La Primavera (“Spring”) from The Four Seasons.) |
Tells something... |
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belcanto |
Italian: “beautiful singing”) style of operaticsinging that polyphonic(multipart) musicanItalian courtly solo singing during the late 16th centuryand that was developed in Italian opera in the 17th, 18th, and early 19thcenturies. |
Italian |
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development section |
Thesection in a piece of music toward the middle, in which there is rapid keychange and the manipulation of thematic material that had appeared earlier. |
One of three sections |
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Sprechstimme |
Technique of singing,halfway between speech and song. (Musical example: Arnold Schoenberg, Madonnafrom Pierrot Lunaire.) |
Half of one thing. Half of another. what are they? |
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Oratorio |
Anunstaged dramatic sacred work, featuring solo singers (including a narrator),choir, and orchestra, and usually based on a biblical story. |
biblical |
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Concerto |
Threemovements, in the pattern fast-slow-fast. |
certain amount of movements. Certain pace with each movement. |
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L’orfeo |
It is an Opera. It is based on the Greeklegend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and hisfruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world. |
mythological story |
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Leitmotiv |
Musical phrase or fragment with associations toa character, object, or idea. |
associated with something |
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bassocontinuo |
Single instrument orsmall group of instruments, usually including a harpsichord, playing the bassline in Baroque music. |
After classical/ playing the ____ Line |
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Melisma |
a group of notes sung to one syllable of text. |
A group of notes sung to ____ syllable of text |
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Dissonance |
lack of harmony among musical notes. |
Lack of Something |
