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18 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Theme and Variations
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A'A''A'''A''''A'''''
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Binary Form
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AB
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Ternary Form
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ABA sometimes ABA'
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Rondo Form
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ABACA, ABACABA, ABACADA
Has to have A at least 3 times and two different others (A, B, C, D etc.) |
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Sonata-Allegro Form
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(Optional) Introduction, Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, (Optional) Coda
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Through-Composed
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No Form
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Symphony/String Quartet
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1. Fast SA Form
2. Slow (often Theme and Variations) 3. Minuet and Trio (Dance in Triple Meter) 4. Fast - SA Form or Fast Rondo |
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Concerto/Sonata
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1. Fast SA Form
2. Slow (often Theme and Variations) 3. Fast SA Form or Fast Rondo |
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Parallel Motion
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A musical process in which all lines or parts move in the same direction and same intervals for a period of time.
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Ostinato
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Something that is repeated over and over again
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Whole-Tone Scale
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A six-note scale each pitch of which is a whole tone away from the next
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Tone Cluster
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Simultaneous sounding of notes directly adjacent to one another. Sounds bad.
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Second Viennese School
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Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern
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Sprechstimme
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Rapping words instead of singing them.
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Klangfarbenmelodie
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Splitting a musical line between instruments, like pointillism.
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12 tone composition
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A method of writing that uses all the notes in a chromatic scale. A certain order is then picked and stuck to for the rest of the time.
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Absolute Music
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Instrumental music free of text or any preexisting program.
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Intermezzo
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A light, musical interlude intended to seperate and thus break the mood of two more serious pieces.
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