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Antiphonal |
Performance style in which an ensemble is divided into two or more groups, performing in alternation and then together |
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Aria |
Lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaninat ,generally expressing intense emotion; found in opera, cantat, oratorio |
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Baroque |
17th and 18th century ...ivaldi, bach , handel |
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Basso Continuo |
Italian for "continuos bass: also refers to performance group wtih a bass, chordal instrument, and one bass melody intrument |
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Bebop |
Complex jazz style developed in the 1940's |
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Cadenza |
Virtuosic solo passage in the manner of an improvsation, performed near the end of an aria or movement of a concerto |
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Canon |
Type of polyphonic composition in which one musical line stictyl imitates another at a fixed distance throughout |
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Castrato |
Male singer who was castratd during boyhood to perserve the soprano or alto vocal register , prominant in 17th and early 18th century opera |
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Chromaticism |
a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic pitches and chords with other pitches of the chromatic scale. |
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Concerto
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Intrumenatal genre in several movements for solo intsrument and orchestra |
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Counter Reformation |
A reform movemtn within the roman catholic church that began in the mid 16th centruy in reaction the protetant reformation |
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Counteroint |
The art of combining in a single texture two or more melodic lines |
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Diegetic |
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Dissonance |
COmbination of tones that sounds discordant and unstable , in need of resultion |
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Empfindsamkeit |
German "sensative" style of the mid 18th centurty charatarized by melodic directness and hompphonic texture |
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Florentine Camerata |
The Florentine Camerata were an important group of musical amateurs who met to discuss literature, science and the arts. |
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Fugue |
Polyphonic form popular in the baroque era in which one more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint |
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Galant |
The galant style was a movement in music, visual arts and literature which was popular in the middle of the 18th century France and in Germany |
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Homophony |
texture with rincicpal melody and accompanying harmony, as distince from poluphony |
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Imitation |
Melodic idea presented in one coice and then restatd in another each part continiuing as others enters |
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Impressario |
a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas. |
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Leitmotiv |
is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase"[1] associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme |
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Libretto |
Text or script of an opera, oratorio, cantata, or musical "book" in a musical
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Lied |
German song most commonly associatied with solo are song of the 19th cintury , usually accompanied by the piano |
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Liturgical |
originated as a part of religious ceremony, and includes a number of traditions, both ancient and modern
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Monophony |
Singline line texture melody without an accompanient |
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Motive |
Short melodic or rythmic idea; the smallest fragment of a theme that forms a melodic harmonic rhythimic unit |
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Nationalism |
refers to the use of musical ideas or motifs that are identified with a specific country, region, or ethnicity, such as folk tunes and melodies, rhythms, and harmonies inspired by them. |
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Nondiegetic |
Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: |
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Opera buffa |
Italian comic opera, sung throught |
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Opera Seria |
Tragic Italian Opera |
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Organum |
Earliest kind of polyphonic music , which developed from the custom of adding coices above plainchant; they first ran parralel to it at the interval of a fifth or fourth and later moved more freely |
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Ostinato |
A short melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic pattern that is repeated throughout a work or a section of one |
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Overture |
An introductory movement as in an opera or oratorio often presenting melodies from arias to come |
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Polyphony |
Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture , as distinct from monophonic. |
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Program music |
Intrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations , espeicialy opular in the 19th century |
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Protestant Reformation |
often referred to simply as the Reformation, was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other early Protestant Reformers. |
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Recictative |
Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflections of the text often resulting in a disjunct vocal style found in opera, cantata, and oratorio |
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Romanticsm |
Three characteristics of romanticism: |
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Serialism |
Method of componsition in which various musical elements (pitch, rhythm,dynamics,tone color,) may ne ordered in a fixed series |
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Symphonic Poem |
One movement orchestral form that develops a poetic idea suggests a scene o created a mood , generally associated with the romantic era |
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Verismo |
Operatic "realism" a style popular in Italy in the 1890's which tried to bring naturalism into the lyric theatre |