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42 Cards in this Set
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composition for keyboard or opening for musical theater
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prelude
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artists who are self taught
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primitive
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person responsible for financing productions
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producer
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textual reference to a piece of music
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program music
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leading character in a theatrical production
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protagonist
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jazz style/regular rhythms/syncopation
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ragtime
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stage floor with back higher than front
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raked stage
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words recited on pitch with melodic extended air
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recitative and aria
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sculpture projecting from backstage beam
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relief
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receptacle for religious relic
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reliquary
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historical era between 1400 and 1699
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renaissance
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religious alter panel in a church
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retalbo
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movement of a uniform or patterned recurrence
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rhythm
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repeated rhythm placed by a drum or a cymbal to keep time
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ride-rhythm
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melodic fragment repeated by a group (usually jazz)
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riff
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major focus of a plot development
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rising action
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style emphasizing emotion free imagination
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romantic
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musical form with three different sections
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rondo
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an arrangement of seven tones systematically from A to G
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scale
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creator of physical environment for a play
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scene designer
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a three dimensional style used by Leonardo
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sfumato
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meter divisible by 2 i.e. 2/4. 2/2. 2/8
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simple meter
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musical form based on contrasting themes and tonalities
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sonata allegro
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monitor of a play/opera in production
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stage manager
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commemorative stone marker
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stele
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shrine in shape of a dome or mountain
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stupa
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particular type, mode, or expression
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style
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closely related to key center, 4th scale step
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sub-dominant
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big band jazz marked by smooth flowing beat
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swing
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orchestra itself or music written for one
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symphony
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deliberate disturbance of the normal pulse in music
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syncopation
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dance style emphasizing rhythm and time
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tap
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speed of music
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tempo
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central idea of a play or music composition
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theme
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unique acoustic quality
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timbre
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slang for anything connected with popular song composition
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tin pan alley
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key center, first scale step name or chord based on first scale name
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tonic
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a disastrous event carried to an unhappy conclusion
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tragedy
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three notes performed in the space of two
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triplet
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late 19th century musical theatre
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vaudeville
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ceiling design on the arch principle of construction
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vault
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ancient mesopotarnian structure with terraces and sloping sides
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ziggurat
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