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Concerto Grosso

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concertino-small group/ ripieno-tutti

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Suite/Partita

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instrumental movements with some element of unity Bach Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Gigue

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Chorale Prelude

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compostition for organ based on German Protestant chorale

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Chorale Cantata

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A cantata based on the words and/or melody of a German Lutheran chorale

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Lutheran Chorale

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German text JS Bach liturgical use of vernacular hymns

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Trio sonata

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Baroque instrumental chamber music 2 violins 1 cello 1 keyboard

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Sonata da camera

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Instrumental piece Trio sonata Corelli multi movement Dance suite

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Sonata da chiesa

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Instrumental piece Trio sonata Corelli multi movement Dance suite

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Toccata

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“to touch” a virtuoso piece for keyboard Gabreieli-Hassler-JS Bach

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Oratorio

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large musical composition based on religious setting/ appropriate for church

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Canzona

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based on songs/ instrumental works/ multi-movement/ Gabrieli-Frescobaldi/ ancestor of sonata da chiesa

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Cantata

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composite vocal genre of the Baroque-recit. Arioso, choral

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Concertato

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vocal and instrumental/ early 17th century

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Ricercare

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instrumental composition/ prelude to fugue form hehehe

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Guido of Arezzo

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Guidonian Hand/ Ut re fa sol/solmization/basis of modern scale

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Church modes/Gregorian Modes

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Pope Gergory I Dorian-Phrygian-Lydian-Mixolydian (Authentic) + Hypo (Plagal)

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Dorian-Hypodorian

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D-A

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Phrygian-Hypophrygian

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E-B

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Lydian-Hypolydian

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F-C

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Myxolydian-Hypomixolydian

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G-D

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Hexachord

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Six pitch classes/hexad six-note pitch collection Milton Babbitt

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Mass Proper

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appropriate to a particular feast/ Introit.Gradual.Alleluia/Tract.Communion

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Mass Ordinary

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used on any day Kyrie.Gloria.Credo.Sanctus.AgnusDei.Ita missa est/Benedicamus Domino

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Neumes

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signs employed in the notation of plainsong

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Sequence
repitition of a phrase of melody or harmonic progression at different pitch levels/mass Chants in Roman Rite
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Hymn
Song of praise to God
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Requiem Mass
Mass for the Dead
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Dies Irae
Wrath of God/part of requiem Mass
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Troubadour and Trouve'res
poet musicians 1100-1300
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Organum
medieval polyphony on a cantus firmus
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Rhythmic modes
rhythmic patterns in medieval music/modern music
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Magnus Liber organi
large collection of polyphonic music 12th and 13th century Notre Dame
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Motet
polyphonic setting of Latin text/imitative style (Palestrina)
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Ars nova
Philippe de Vitry's 13th century treatise
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Isorhythm
repitition of a rhythmic pattern/ motet 14th and 15th century
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Formes Fixes
Ballade, Virelai, Rondeau/ Late medieval France 14-15th century
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Caccia
in canon often hunting or market scenes Italian 14th and 15th century madrigal and instrumental
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Musica ficta
tomes outside the Guidonian Hand/accidentals left unwritten
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Cantus firmus
a pre-existent melody used as a basis for polyphonic composition
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L'homme arme'
a popular melody used as cantus firmus
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Parody Mass
a cyclic mass based on a polyphonic model
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Humanism
individualism, discovery and freedom from faith in God
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Odhecaton
Petrucci 1501/anthology of polyphony/ Isaac Josquin-Agricola
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Chanson
troubador and trouvere/secular polyphony
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Madrigalism
A musical effect intended to illustrate text in a vocal composition 16th century
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Madrigal
A poetic and musical vocal form. 14th century Italy/16-17th century polyphonic
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Tablature
Musical notation using letters/numerals/or diagrams to specify pitch
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Pavane and Galliard
16th century dance and dance forms
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Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
a manuscript containing 300 works for virginal 16-17th century
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Prima prattica. Seconda prattica
16th century polyphony as codified by Zerlino/ words over music
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Basso continuo/thorugh bass/figured bass
an independent bass line upon which harmonies are realized
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basso ostinato/ground bass
a repeating melodic phrase set in the bass
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chaconne/passacaglia
a continuous variation form (Baroque)
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Libretto
text of opera or oratorio
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recitativo semplice o secco
acc. by continuo only
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recitativo accompagnato
acc. by orchestra
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Da capo aria
ABA or variations of
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Trage'die lyrique
17th and 18th century French serious opera. Lully/ Prologue + 5 Acts
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Singspiel
German music dramatic work 18th or 18th century/ usually with spoken text
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Scordatura
Unconventional tuning of stringed instruments
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Temperament
Slight modification of a pure interval/ any modified scale or interval
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Ripieno
tutti concerto
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Ritornello
a repeated section of music usu. In Baroque
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French Overture
slow processional with dotted rhythms. Usu. In 3 Lully and Bach
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Style galant
characteristic style of early classic/light texture/ more homophonic style
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Empfindsamer Stil
"sensitive style" 18th century German style intended to express true and natural feelings
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Opera seria
18th century Italian libretto style-Metastasio (Zeno) Handel 19th century Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti
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Opera Buffa
vernacular/popuar/recit. Dialogue
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Ballad Opera
musico-dramatic genre England +colonies with dialogue
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Sturm und Drang
German opera 1770s minor keys. Melodramatic/ Haydn. Mozart. JC Bach
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Mannheim
1750-1778) Influential orchestra based in Mannheim/ Rocket and Roller
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Lorenzo da Ponte
Venetian librettist and poet Don Giovanni. Cosi fan tutti. Le Nozze di Figaro
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Program Music
Music that depicts non-musical ideas
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Program symphony
movements are labelled-symphonic poem
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Ide'e fixe
Berlioz/ musical idea-linking several mvt.s Symphonie fantastique 1830 leitmotif
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Concert Overture
intended as a concert piece not attached to opera
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Absolute Music/Abstract Music
music free of any implicit connection to extramusical reality
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Mazurka
Polish folk dance in 3 Chopin
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Song Cycle
a group of songs consituting a literary and musical unit
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verismo
Italy 1890's Cavalleria Rusticana I Pagliacci
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Cavatina/Cabaletta
entrance of principle character/second portion of aria or duet. Rousing tempo
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bel canto
beauty of sound, even tone, legato, phrasing
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melodrama
musico dramatic form involving intense dramatic ands emotional situations
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leitmotif
a usical fragment closely related to some aspect of the drama
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gesamtkunstwerk
RW's term for his mature musical operas in essays 1849. he misspelled the term gesam(m)tkunstwerk speaks of unifying all works of art via the theater
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The Mighty Five
Balakirev/Cui/Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov/Borodin
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Impressionism
Debussy colors. Static. Non-climactic melodies circling a single pitch
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Expressionism
Scheoberg, Berg, Weber extreme expressive effects
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Neo-classicism
Stravinsky- objectivity restraint motivic clarity
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Polytonality
simultaneous use of two or more tonalities
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whole tone scale
duh!
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Gebrauchsmusik
music for use/functional music 1920s accessible to public Hindemith. Kurt Weill /composed for a particluar purpose/ utility music
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minimalism
music stripped down to basic elements/ Reich. Glass. Adams
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post-modernism
reaction to complexity and control by minimalists
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octatonic scale
8 pitches made by alternation whole and half tones Stravinsky
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Atonality
absence of tonality Schoenberg-Webern-Berg
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Pitch Sets
a collection of pitches-sound at once or not
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Sprechstimme
use of voice midway between speech and song Sprechgesang
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Dodecaphonic Music
12 tone series
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Serialism
music constructed according to groups of elements. Pitch.duration. Any other musical values Boulez. Stockhausen Babbitt
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Musique concre'te
1950s and 60s taped music Boulez Cage Stockhausen
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Indeterminacy/Aleatoric
use of chance or indetrminacy
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Open form
aleatoric forms John Cage 1950s
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Metric modulation
change from one time signature to another where there is a common note value

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