Musica Midterm

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Absolute Film

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No narration or story line.

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Asolute music

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No reference beyond the music itself.

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Arch

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A curved construction.

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Ars nova

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NEW ART" Reference to music of the 14th cent.

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Art song

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German lied,/french/chanson/vocal solos

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Atonality

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No tonal reference

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Avant garde

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Innovators; the cutting edge

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Ballet

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Formalized theatrical dance

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Baroque

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Historical era between 1600 and 1750

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Basilica

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Roman assembly hall

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Blocking

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Actor's movement on the stage

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Boogie-woogie

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Piano blues with strong rhythmic bass

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Burlesque

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Bawdy music theatre

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Buttress

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Built for supporting a building's exterior

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Call response

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Form using a statement from another source

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Cantata

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Sacred composition sung with accompaniment

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Cantilever

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A projecting beam anchored without support

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Chamber music

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Music composed for small ensembles

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Character

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Person in dramatic presentation

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Character piece

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Musical composition with narrative

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Chiaroscuro

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Light and dark shading

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Children's theatre

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Designed for children; has adult values

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Chord progressions

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A series of chors played in a series

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Chord

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Combination of notes sounded together

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Choreographer

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Designer of dance

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Cinema

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Images on film

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Classic style

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Emphasizing harmony and balance

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Climax

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High point in a play or music

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Collage

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Comp. of varied overlapping materials

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Comedy

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Humerous situations

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Complication

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Colliding plot element

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Compound meter

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Divisible by three l.e. 3/4. 6/8, etc.

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Concerto

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To oppose in sound

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Corbelled arch

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Stones arranged in a staggered course

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Cuneiform

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Ancient Mesopotamian writing

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Danseomania

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Frenzied Medieval dance

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Denouement

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falling action; resolution of a falling climax

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Diminished

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a chord consiting of two minor thirds

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Director

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Artistic contoller of a play or film

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Discovery

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Shift of character; leading to reversal

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Dixieland

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Style of jazz based on improvisation

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Documentary

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non-fictional narrative film

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Dodecaphonic

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Comp. using 12 equal tones w/no tonal center

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Dominant

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Closely related key center scale step #5

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Drama

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A serious presentation w/ character conflict

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Dynamics

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Volume levels or amount of force

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En pointe

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Ballet dance on toes or pointing

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Encaustic

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Panting with heated pigment

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Ethos

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Greek theory/music has moral/amoral content

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Exposition

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Revealing characters or conflicts in a play. Opening themes in music.

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Extended

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Expanded tradition forms of music. 12 tone blues

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Facade

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Exterior of face of a building

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Farce

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Broad humor and implausible plots

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Flying Butress

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Open external support of a building

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Form

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Musical Stucture; the overall compositional design

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Fresco

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Wall panting using water-soluble pigment on wet surface

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Fugue

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Contrapuntal musical composition

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Genre

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Subject matter from everday life

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Harmonic Motion Rhythm

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the rhythm created by changes in harmony

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Harmony

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Simultaneous sounding of pitches; arr. Vertically

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Hieroglyphics

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Egyptian or Mayan picture writing

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Homophony

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Accompaniment with melody

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Humanism

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Philosophy that considers human values

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Iconography

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Pictorial images and their meanings

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Impressionism

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Late 19th century art/music movement

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Improvisation

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Extemporous creative activity

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Inciting incident

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The first major conflict in a play

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Jazz

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Dance or music based on exuberant rhythm

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Kinetic

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Real or implied movement

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Lighting designer

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Responsible for stage illumination

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Lintel

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Beam spanding two upright posts

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Liturgical Drama

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Medieval play in a church org. didactic

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Madrigal

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A secular polyphonic compostion

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Major

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Tonality of a complication; 7 tone scale

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Mass

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Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church

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Melodrama

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A simplistic sentimental storyline

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Melody

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Series of 7 tones arr. Horizontally

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Meter

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Rhythmic organization of music

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Mime

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Character or modes by gestures

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Minaret

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Prayer tower connected to a Moslem Mosque

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Minor

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Tonality based on a minor scale

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Modern

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Recent styles associated with the 20th century

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Modes

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Tones arranged in a scale that form the basis for a composition

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Monophony

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A single line of music

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Mintage

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Superimposed photographic images

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Brad

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