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MUSHIS TEST 2
Dr. Robinson Test 2
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Music
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2012

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Affections
Definition
The basic mood of a piece
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Terraced Dynamics
Definition
Alternation between loud and soft dynamics
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Clavichord
Definition
keyboard instrument part of the continuo
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Basso Continuo
Definition
Two instruments usually a keyboard and a cello. Played in accompaniment
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Figured Bass
Definition
Showed bass notes of chord progression
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Movement
Definition
Piece that sounds complete but is a part of a larger composition
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Tutti
Definition
When the full orchestra is playing
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Ritornello form
Definition
Alternating between tutti and solo
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Subject
Definition
One main theme
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Countersubject
Definition
The melodic idea that accompanies the sebject
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Episode
Definition
Period of time for all pieces of Fugue to have subject
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Stretto
Definition
Interrupting and episode
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pedal Point
Definition
Drone
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Inversion
Definition
When the interval of a fugue is reverses
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Retrograde
Definition
Where a fugue is played from back to front
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Augmentation
Definition
Making note values longer
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Diminution
Definition
Making note values shorter
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Prelude
Definition
Introduction to a fugue
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Libretto
Definition
The text of an opera
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Librettist
Definition
The writer of the text to an opera
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Voice Categories of Opera
Definition
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Aria
Definition
Song like singing an an opera, usually foretells of lost love or death. Much more melodic
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Recitative
Definition
Less song like singing in an opera. It is close to speaking. Used for plot advancement.
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Ensemble
Definition
Three or more vocalists working together in an opera.
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Chorus
Definition
A group of singers performing together.
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Prompter
Definition
The one who gives cues to the opera performers from a box off stage
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Overture
Definition
Pure orchestral opening to an opera which sets the overall affection
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Camerata
Definition
A fellowship where poets, nobles and composers met and paved the way for opera
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Castrato
Definition
A process in which a male is castrated to maintain the ability to sing higher
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Secco Recitative
Definition
Speech like melody accompanied by a basso continuo
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Accompanied recitative
Definition
Speech like melody that is accompanied by a full orchestra
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Da Capo Aria
Definition
Aria in ternary form. It repeats the beginning.
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Da Capo
Definition
"from the beginning"
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Ground Bass
Definition
Common in the Baroque period, the bass is repeated while the higher instruments continually change.
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Basso Ostinato
Definition
The ground bass
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Trill
Definition
A flutter that is used to alert the orchestra that it is almost time for them to play. It is an ornamentation.
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Suite
Definition
Collection of dance music all written in the same key
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French Overture
Definition
Common opening to baroque suites. often started like a fugue.
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Chorale
Definition
Hymn tunes sung to a religious German text
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Choral Prelude
Definition
Short organ composition used to remind the congregation of the melody
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Mass (five parts)
Definition
Kyrie, Cloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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Word Painting
Definition
Musical representation of specific poetic images
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a cappella
Definition
Unaccompanied choral music
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Motet (5 things)
Definition
Sacred // A Cappella // Polyphonic // Latin // Religious text
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Mass (5 things)
Definition
Sacred // A Cappella // Polyphonic // Latin // Preset text
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Madrigal
Definition
Secular // A Cappella // Polyphonic // Vernacular // Poems and Mythology
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Oratorio
Definition
Sacred // Orchestra // Aria // Vernacular
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Cantata
Definition
Sacred // orchestra // Aria // German
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Opera
Definition
Secular // Orchestra // Aria or Recitative // italian // Libretto
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Palestrina
Definition
Pope Marcellus Mass
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Desprez
Definition
Ave Maria
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Cadenza
Definition
improvised sounding solo passage - Bradenburg Concerto
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Appoggiatura
Definition
Sustain a dissonant note before releasing to a consonant one
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Claudio Monteverdi
Definition
Working mainly for the St. Mark's Cathedral
Worked in seven cities
Dealt with word painting)
Orfeo
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Henry Purcell
Definition
Was a choir Boy
English
Known for variety with the chorus
Dido and Aneas
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Ostinato
Definition
Repeated musical idea
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Antonio Vivaldi
Definition
St. Mark's Connection
The Red Priest
La Primavera
Solo Concerto
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JS Bach
Definition
Brandenburg Concerto (long cadenza)
Suite No.3
No. 140 Wachet Auf
Wrote for Lutheran churches
German
Organ Fugue
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Georges Handel
Definition
Messiah
Impresario (one that puts everything together)
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Arcangelo Corelli
Definition
Trio Sonata
Italian Violinist
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Felix Mendelson
Definition
Revived Bach's Music
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Music for pedagogy
Definition
music for teaching
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Ways to become a musician
Definition
Son of one
Apprenticed to one
Choir boy at church
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When did Bach die?
Definition
1750
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Thomas Weelkes
Definition
Britain/English
As Vesta Was descending (about the queen)
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Pierre Caroubel
Definition
Passamezzo and Galliard
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John Dowland
Definition
Flow My Tears
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Giovanni Palestrina
Definition
Pope Marcellus Mass
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