Music Appreciation - Chapters 11, 12, 13 Vocab

Front 1

The notes or chords ending a section of music

Back 1

Cadence

Front 2

an improvised passage for the solist in the concerto, or sometimes in other works

Back 2

Cadenza

Front 3

music played by small groups, such as a string quartet or a piano trio

Back 3

Chamber Music

Front 4

a three movement work for an instrumental solist and orchestra

Back 4

Classical Concerto

Front 5

a large group of instruments playing together

Back 5

Classical Orchestra

Front 6

The concluding section of a piece or a movement, after the main elements of the form have been presented

Back 6

Coda

Front 7

the process of expanding themes and short motives into larger sections of music

Back 7

Development

Front 8

an eighteenth century genre of light instrumental music, designed for entertainment

Back 8

Divertimento

Front 9

teh first section of a fugue or a sonata for movement

Back 9

Exposition

Front 10

the technique of reducing a theme to fragmentary motives

Back 10

Fragmentation

Front 11

momophonic texture in which subtly different versions of a single melody are presented simultaneously

Back 11

Heterophonic Texture

Front 12

a musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest, combined with chords or other subsidary sounds

Back 12

Homophony

Front 13

a popular 17th and 18th century dance in moderate triple meter; also a movement in sonata, symphony, etc. based on this dance

Back 13

Minuet Form

Front 14

an eighteenth century movement in the art returning to Greek and Roman models

Back 14

Neoclassicism

Front 15

Italian Comic Opera

Back 15

Opera Buffo

Front 16

the third section of a sonata - form movement

Back 16

recapitulation

Front 17

in sonata form, the passage leading from the end of the development section into the beginning of the recapitulation

Back 17

Retransition

Front 18

a musical form consisting of one main theme or tune alternating with themes or sections

Back 18

Rondo