Style Flashcards
Chamber Music
Classical & Romantic
Music written for a small instrumental ensemble with one player to a part eg a string quartet
Impressionism
20th & 21st Century
Hazy, dreamy music based on the whole tone scale
Jazz Funk
20th & 21st Century
Combines jazz with instruments such as synthesizer, electric guitar etc
Features riffs, syncopated rhythms, solo improvising, and long instrumental breaks
Lied
Classical & Romantic
German song with piano
May be strophic or through composed
Mass
Renaissance
A large scale, sacred work sung in Latin for solo singers, chorus and orchestra (SATB choir)
The five main sections are Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Usually features imitation, melismatic word setting, and polyphonic texture
Musique concrète
20th & 21st Century
The use of recorded sounds as raw material which are then edited to create music
Oratorio
Baroque
A sacred opera which takes inspiration from biblical stories
Features arias, recitative, and chorus
Plainchant
Renaissance
Unaccompanied song ‘a cappella’ sung by monks
Modal
Recitative
Baroque
Speech-like song in an opera / oratorio
Accompaniment is very simple
Sonata
Classical & Romantic
A work for solo piano, or solo instrument and piano, often in three or four movements
Soul Music
20th & 21st Century
A style of Afro-American popular music which includes elements of blues and gospel, and conveys strong emotions
String Quartet
Classical & Romantic
Two violins, a viola and a cello
Aria
Baroque
An operatic solo which is sung in more reflective parts of the story
The orchestra accompaniment is fancy
Minimalism
20th & 21st Century
Very repetitive style built on a few simple ideas
Chorus
Baroque
Part of an opera which is a large group of singers in a vocal work
Can be male, female, or an SATB choir
