| The use of specified instruments to mark estimated time intervals. Ex: A gong sounding every 4th measure, a drum sounding every 8th measure. |
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| Played with a steady beat using harmonic structures of popular songs with syncopated rhythms, improvisations, and polyphonic ensembles. |
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| Restatement of expostion( or opening section) |
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| Means “sounding together” became the name for overtures in opera. Consists of long musical compositions for opera. |
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| French composer. Wrote Symphony Fantastique. Which became the landmark for the Romantic musical era. “Ide Fixe” |
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| A fixed idea pertaining to Hector Berlios’ take on music |
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| Term brought up by Richard Wagner (french composer) that thought that music and theater could unite to make new music devoted to melodic passages associated with a character, the situation, or the theme |
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| A new era of classicism at which music was created in the 19th and 20th centuries being closely related to the pre-Romatic compositions of before. |
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| Description or story that is included in a description program |
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| instrumental music that carries some extramusical meaning, some “program” of literary idea, legend, scenic description, or personal drama. Ex: Weddding march for brides |
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| instrumental music that carries some extramusical meaning, some “program” of literary idea, legend, scenic description, or personal drama. Ex: Weddding march for brides |
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| “tone poem”musical composition for orchestra inspired by an extra-musical idea, story, or “program,” to which the title typically refers or alludes. Evolved from concert overatures to give theme…Ex:Felix Mendelssohn Midsummer nights dream, the wedding m |
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| system of partially improvised accompaniment played on a bass line, usually on a keyboard instrument;giving considerable leeway to the keyboard player |
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| solo at the end of an aria or a piece, serves as a climax |
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| using instruments to make the mass of an orchestra sound larger |
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| reaccuring themes, last movement of a sonata. Ex: a b a c a b a |
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| Musical form for one or more instruments, usually consisting of three or four movements. |
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| Musical form for one or more instruments, usually consisting of three or four movements. |
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| italian meaning “church sonata” a type of trio sonata |
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| italian meaning “chamber sonata” a type of trio sonata for secular performances |
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| requires four performers: two melody instruments and continuo (usually a keyboard instrument and a bass instrument |
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| requires four performers: two melody instruments and continuo (usually a keyboard instrument and a bass instrument |
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| a sonata that has a slow-fast-slow-fast order |
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| sonata de chiesa or church sonata |
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| Solo song with instrumental accompaniment in opera, cantata, or oratorio. |
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| “operaboofa” general designation for musical plays with light subject matter and happy endings. The dialogue is usually spoken, rather than sung |
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| a work consisting of two or more instruments or singers |
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| italian meaning “booklet” text of an opera, operetta, or other kind of musical theatre |
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| Musical drama made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment, overtures, and interludes. |
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| served as openings for operas;Musical introduction to a larger, often dramatic, work |
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| Style of accompanied solo singing that imitates the rhythms and tones of speech |
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| operas with sad, unhappy endings |
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| Musical ensemble that generally excludes stringed instruments. |
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| french technique consisting of changing the music melodically, harmonically, or contrapuntally. French songs with flexible form |
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| composer of the eastland wind ensemble |
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| imitation of one or more themes in a piece |
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| his innovations reduced the heavy reliance on brass instruments in favour of the higher proportion of reeds characteristic of modern concert bands. 1st composer of the modern american symphonic band |
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| German composer that fled russia from persecution.He sought to revitalize tonality, the system underlying Western music for three centuries, which had begun to disintegrate, and also pioneered in the writing of Gebrauchsmusik, or “utility music,” (music m |
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| British composer & music teacher noted for the excellence of his orchestration.His music combines an international flavour based on the styles of Maurice Ravel,and others who continued english romanticism |
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| Wrote Holst’s Planets 1916 that sounds similiar to a Titantic piece. |
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| wrote “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” composer of many military marches. created a new bass tuba known as the sousa phone |
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| meaning close imitation to |
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| opening section of indian music consisting of one instrument sustaining one pitch |
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| improvised jazz. required great technical facilities for its players |
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| the trumpeter Miles Davis led that established the relaxed aesthetic and lyrical phrasing called… |
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| improvisation in cool jazz |
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in hindu or buddha a sacred utterance (syllable, word, or verse) believed to possess mystical or spiritual power.
Ex: ummmmmm.. |
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| 2 headed drum played in classical indian music |
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| meaning “color” or “passion” a melodic framework for improvisation based on a given set of notes (usually five to seven) and characteristic rhythmic patterns; the mood of the piece |
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| meaning “essense” in Sanskrit an essential element of any work of art that can only be suggested, not described |
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stringed musical instrument of the lute family that is common to northern India
Ex: Totti Raga (sounds like indiana jones) |
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instrument similiar to the oboe
Ex: Shenai Raga ( bees buzzing) |
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| guitar-like instrument for indian music |
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| the rhythm in the music of India and Pakistan, a metric cycle with a specific number of beats—from 3 to 128—that recur in the same pattern throughout a musical performance |
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| in indian music a clapping/ waving arrangement |
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| a composition for four voice parts with the melody in the top line |
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composer of doedecaphonic music (12 tones). created songs set to other songs
Ex: an echo similiar to Bohemian Rhapsody |
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| “speech song” a cross between speaking and singing in which the tone quality of speech is heightened and lowered in pitch along melodic contours indicated in the musical notation |
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composer who used word painting in chaconnes
Ex: El Grillo, where the singers keep saying grillo |
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| music created for small ensembles or groups. Usually named by ex: instrument + number of instruments. 3 trumpet players= trumpet trio |
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| french composer that emphasized classicism with romanticism = The Wedding March, etc. |
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| Composer who based his pieces on neoclassicism |
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| italian for “JOKE” the piece ranges from high to low sounds and fast tempos |
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| for transmission of musical data between digital components, such as synthesizers and a computer’s sound card. |
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| Created by Robert Moog,a small compact synthesizer |
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| created by Thaddeus Kahil also called Dynamophone, earliest musical instrument to generate sound electrically |
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| Created by Theremin also called Thereminvox, or Etherophone, electronic musical instrument by moving your hands to make different pitches in sound |
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Saxophone player
Ex: song sounds similiar to a tom and jerry cartoon when jerry is being chased. |
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| Song that sounds similiar to an up and down piano with operatic singers |
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| Franz Schubert’s Earl King |
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