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15 Cards in this Set
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song sung for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment
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aria
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baroque accompaniment made up of a bass part usually played by two instruments
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basso continuo
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hymn tune sung to a religious text
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chorale
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short compostion for organ based on a hymn tune
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choral prelude
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composition for several instrumental soloists and small orchestra
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concerto gross
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polyphonic composition based on one main theme, or subject
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fugue
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piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition
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movement
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drama that is sung to orchestra accompaniment, usuaslly a large scale composition
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opera
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large scale composition for chorus, vocal solists and orchtra, suually set to narrative test, usually without acting, etc
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oratorio
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short musical composition, purely orchestra, which opens an opera nad sets the overall dramatic mood
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overature
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single tone, usually in the bass, which is held while the other voices produce a serious of changing harmonies against it, often found in fugues
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pedal point
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vocal line in an opera, oratorio, or cantata that imitates the rhytms and pitch fluctuations of speech
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recitative
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an instrumental composition in several movements for 1 to 8 players
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sonata
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compositional procedure used in fugues, in which a subject is imitated before it is completed
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stretto
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a set of dance-inspired movements all written in the same key byt with differnet tempos, etc
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suite
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