Music Flashcards
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refers to a specific style of music, mostly
associated with the seventeenth century,
Classical
is a setting of a poem for solo voice and piano. Typically, it adapts the poem’s mood and imagery into music.
Art Song
Usually a choral work with one or more soloists and an instrumental ensemble, has
several movements. It often includes chorales and organ accompaniment.
Cantata
originally meant a piece that was sung
Cantata
a sacred choral composition, consists of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
Mass
- Was a major achievement of the baroque period
- A large-scale composition, uses a chorus, vocal soloists, and an orchestra.
- This type of musical composition unfolds through a series of choruses, arias, duets, recitatives, and
orchestral interludes.
Oratorio
- An extended composition for an instrumental soloist and orchestra reached its zenith during the classical period of the eighteenth century.
- It typically contains three movements, in which the first is fast, the second slow, and the third fast.
Concerto
- An orchestral composition, usually in four movements,
- Came from the classical period of the eighteenth century
- typically lasts between twenty and forty-five minutes.
Symphony
a polyphonic composition based on one main theme or subject, can be written for a group of instruments or voices or for a single instrument like an organ or harpsichord.
fugue (fyoog)
began toward the end of the nineteenth century, These included an emphasis on improvisation, percussion, rhythmic complexity, and a characteristic called “call and response.”
Jazz
a music genre originating in New Orleans, characterized by improvisation, syncopation, a steady beat, and unique tone colors
Blues
also called Dixieland, is a form of jazz originating from spirituals, work songs, and gospel hymns. It features multiple melodic lines improvising simultaneously in the front line, supported by a rhythm section.
New Orleans Style
is a type of piano music (occasionally played on other instruments) dating to the
1890s. Mostly growing out of the saloons and dancehalls of the South and Midwest
Ragtime
- Emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, moved away from fixed chord progressions.
- It is characterized by two main aspects: creative improvisation and original compositions.
- This style is abstract, dense, and challenging to follow, often disregarding regular rhythmic patterns and melodic lines
Free Jazz
In the 1970s and 1980s, jazz combined with elements of rock music to produce an extremely
popular style called
Fusion
it has a pounding rhythm accenting the first beat of the measure. It is loud, intense, coarse, and fast in tempo
Rock and Roll
Gained popularity in the 1970s, has been traced by some sources to the West African and Caribbean traditions of rhymed, rhythmic storytelling.
Rap
anything that excites
the auditory nerve:
Sound
the relative highness or lowness we hear in sound, represents a physical phenomenon measurable in vibrations per second.
Pitch
degrees of loudness or softness in music
Dynamics
signifies the character of tone that allows us to distinguish a pitch played on a violin, for example, from the same pitch played on a piano.
Tone Color
individual pulses we hear are called
Beats
Normal musical practice groups clusters of beats into units called
Measures
is the rate of speed of the composition.
Tempo
