Absolute Film
No narration or story line
Absolute Music
No reference beyond the music itself
Arch
A curved construction
Ars Nova
NEW ART Reference to music of the 14th Cen.
Art Song
German lied./ French /chanson/vocal solos
Atonality
No tonal reference
Avant Garde
Innovators; The cutting edge
Ballet
Formalized theatrical dance
Baroque
Historical Era between 1600 and 1750
Basilica
Roman Assembly Hall
Blocking
Actor’s movement on the stage
Boogie-Woogie
Piano blues with strong rhythmic bass
Burlesque
Bawdy music theatre
Buttress
Built for supporting a building’s exterior
Call Response
Form using a statement from another source
Cantata
Sacred composition sung with accompaniment
Cantilever
A projecting beam anchored without support
Chamber Music
Music composed for small ensembles
Character Piece
Musical composition with narrative
Chiaoscuro
Light and dark shading
Children’s Theatre
Designed for children; has adult values
Chord Progressions
A series of chords played in a series
Chord
Combination of notes sounded together
Choreographer
Designer of dance
Cinema
Images on film
Classic Style
Emphasizing harmony and balance
Climax
High point in a play or music
Collage
Comp. of varied overlapping materials
Comedy
Humorous situations
Complication
Colliding plot element
Compound meter
Divisible by three

Ex. 3/4 6/8

Concerto
To oppose in sound
Corbelled Arch
Stones arranged in a staggered course
Cuneifrom
Ancient Mesopotamian writing
Danseomania
Frenzied Medieval writing
Denouement
Falling action; resolution of a falling climax
Diminished
A chord consisting of two minor chords
Director
Artistic controller of a play or film
Discovery
Shift of character; leading to reversal
Dixieland
Style of jazz based on improvisation
Documentary
Non-fictional narrative film
Dodecaphonic
Comp. using 12 equal tones w/no tonal center
Dominant
Closely related key center scale step #5
Drama
A serious presentation w/character conflict
Dynamics
Volume levels or amount of force
En pointe
Ballet dance on toes or point
Encaustic
Painting with heated pigment
Ethos
Greek theory/ music has moral/amoral content
Exposition
Revealing characters or conflicts in a play.

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Opening themes in music

Extended
Expanded traditional forms in music. 12 tone blues.
Facade
Exterior of face of a building
Flying Buttress
Open external support of a building
Form
Musical structure; the overall compositional design
Fresco
Wall painting using water-soluble pigment on wet surface
Fugue
Contrapuntal musical composition
Genre
Subject matter from everyday life
Harmonic Motion Rhythm
The rhythm created by changes in harmony
Harmony
Simultaneous sounding of pitches, arr. Vertically
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian or Mayan picture writing