Vocab C-D-E

Front 1

Cadence

Back 1

Last two chords of a musical phrase

Front 2

Cadenza

Back 2

Place in the music where everything stops and the soloists is able to demonstrate their technical prowess, usually at the end of the first movement or beginning of the last movement

Front 3

Canon

Back 3

Exact musical repetition

Front 4

Cantibale

Back 4

Song like

Front 5

Cantata

Back 5

Work for orchestra, choir, or soloist

Front 6

Chant

Back 6

Earliest form of monophonic music

Front 7

Chamber Music

Back 7

Music for smaller ensembles

Front 8

Cello

Back 8

2nd lowest instrument in the string family

Front 9

Con

Back 9

With

Front 10

Common Time

Back 10

4/4 time

Front 11

Chord

Back 11

2 or more notes sounded simultaneously

Front 12

Chromatic Scale

Back 12

Non diatonic scale, all half steps

Front 13

Crescendo

Back 13

Gradually increase volume

Front 14

Coda

Back 14

The end

Front 15

Consonance

Back 15

Sounds that don’t need resolution

Front 16

Concerto

Back 16

Pieces written for solo instrument(s) with orchestral accompaniment

Front 17

Da Capo

Back 17

The top/beginning

Front 18

Decrescendo

Back 18

Gradually decrease volume

Front 19

Diminuendo

Back 19

Same as decrescendo

Front 20

Duple Time

Back 20

When the beat is divisible by 2 (4)

Front 21

Dirge

Back 21

Funeral March

Front 22

Dissonance

Back 22

Sounds that need resolution

Front 23

Divisi

Back 23

To divide

Front 24

Dolce

Back 24

Sweetly

Front 25

Downbeat

Back 25

1st beat of a measure

Front 26

Dynamics

Back 26

Ranges of louds and softs in music

Front 27

Elegy

Back 27

Music written in memory for someone or thing

Front 28

Etude

Back 28

Piece written for study; not for performance

Front 29

Enharmonic

Back 29

Multiple ways to name the same pitch