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Highness or lowness in sound |
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Distance between lowest and highest tones |
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Degrees of loudness or softness in music |
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Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another |
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Repeats melody over and over Tone colors through instrumentation Dynamic contrasts |
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The Firebird Finale was written by |
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Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Alto(contralto) |
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Has the greatest versatility and expressive range |
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What strings are often played with |
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Throbbing,expressive tone. Small pitch fluctuations that make the tone warmer |
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Veiling or muffling the tone with a clamp |
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Musician rapidly repeats tones by quick up and down strokes of bow. Sense of tension when loud & Shimmering sound when soft |
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Produce vibrations of air within a tube that was traditionally made of wood |
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Often used at climaxes and for bold heroic statements. |
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Emphasizes rhythm, and hightens climaxes |
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Exceptionally versatile. Among most popular instruments. |
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Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra written by |
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Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra |
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An intro to the instruments of the orchestra |
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Regular recurrent pulsations |
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Organization of beats into regular groups |
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When accented notes come where we would normally not expect one |
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Moderately slow, walking pace |
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Combination of treble and bass staves |
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Placed at beginning of a staff to show the pitch of each line and space. |
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Pitch falls above or below the range indicated. Lines added to clef |
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Sharp or flat signs following clef sign that indicates the key in which instrument is to be played. |
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Shows meter of the piece. Consists of 2 numbers. |
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Shows music for each instrumental or vocal category in a group |
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Series of single notes that add up to a recognizable tone. |
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Melody moves by small intervals or by larger ones. |
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Tones of melody played in smooth connected style or short, detached manner. |
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Melodies made up of shorter parts. |
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Repetition of melodic pattern at a higher or lower pitch. |
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Resting place at the end of a phrase. Sets up expectations. |
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Gives a sense of finality |
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Combo of 3 or more tones sounded at once |
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Simplest, most basic chord. 3 tones |
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Tone combo that is stable. |
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Tone combo that is unstable |
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Main chord of a piece. A triad built on the scale. |
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Next in importance tot he tonic. Sets up tension that is resolved by the tonic chord |
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Broken chord. When individual tones of a chord are sounded one after another. |
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Prelude in E minor, Op.28 No.4 written by |
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Prelude in E minor, Op.28 No.4 |
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Melody hardly moves. Alternates between long and short note. |
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half and whole steps. Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do |
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Like the major scale but differs in its pattern of intervals |
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Next in importance tot he tonic. Sets up tension that is resolved by the tonic chord |
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Broken chord. When individual tones of a chord are sounded one after another. |
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Prelude in E minor, Op.28 No.4 written by |
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Prelude in E minor, Op.28 No.4 |
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Melody hardly moves. Alternates between long and short note. |
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half and whole steps. Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do |
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Like the major scale but differs in its pattern of intervals |
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Twelve tones of the octave |
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Shifting from one key to another in the same piece |
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Central key (Mentioned 3x already..I’m assuming it’s important) |
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Technique of combining several melodic lines into a meaningful whole |
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Restated. Often in polyphonic music |
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One melody accompanied by chords |
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Farandole from the L’Arlesienne Suite written by |
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Farandole from the L’Arlesienne Suite |
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Two kinds of homophonic texture. March theme. Includes two kinds of polyphony. Monophonic texture too. It’s got it all 😛 |
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Organization of musical elements in time |
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Unity and variety at the same time |
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Ternary (three-part) A B A |
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Statement, contrast, return |
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statement and counterstatement |
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statement and counterstatement |
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Dance of the Reed Pipes from The Nutcracker Suite written by |
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Dance of the Reed Pipes from The Nutcracker Suite |
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Bourree from Suite for Lute in E minor written by |
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Bourree from Suite for Lute in E minor |
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Official music of Roman Catholic church. Monophonic. Melody set to sacred Latin text sung w/o accompaniment. |
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Unfamiliar scales used by gregorian chant. |
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Songs about love. Composed by French nobles called troubadours. Often perfomed by minstrels. often had a regular meter with a defined beat. |
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Alleluia:Vidimus Stellam written by |
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We Have Seen His Star. Monophonic. Ternary form. |
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O Successores (You Successores)written by |
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Gregorian chant. Christ referred to as “lion” and “lamb” |
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A medieval dance. One of the earliest surviving forms of instrumental music Monophonic |
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Medieval pholyphony that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines. |
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Nun who wrote poetry and music. she was the first woman composer from whom a large number of works have survived. |
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School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm |
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composers of this school created music with definite time values and clearly defined meter. |
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Part of School of Notre Dame, used measured rhythm. |
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Part of School of Notre Dame, used measured rhythm. wrote Alleluia: Nativitas |
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New art – changes in musical style in the fourteenth century |
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Famous as both a musician and a poet. One of the first important composers whose works have survived. Most well known for Notre Dame Mass |
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Mass ordinary text. Lord, have mercy. |
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Glory to God in the highest |
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Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.(also song by Machaut) In triple meter. complex rhythmic patterns. |
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Written by Machaut. First polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer. (combines all the mass ordinary texts) |
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Composed by Machaut secular composition vocal melody accompanied by two lower parts syncopation |
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Luther’s fave composer Wrote Ave Maria |
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Polyphonic choral work set to Latin text |
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Characteristics of Renaissance |
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Words and music, texture, rhythm and melody |
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Word painting-poetic images |
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Motet, imitative polyphony |
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Near end of Renaissance. Counter-Reformation composer |
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By Palestrina. Polyphonic. A capella. |
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“As Vesta was Descending”. Word painting. |
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for solo voice. homophonic. |
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“Flow My Tears”. Lute song. Four-note descent. |
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