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accompanied recitative - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ recitative
accompanied by the orchestra, as opposed to by the
basso continuo alone
anacrusis - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a starting note that
falls on a beat before that downbeat. Also called a
pickup beat or an upbeat.
aria - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Italian for "air" or melody;
any lyrical movement or peice for solo voice, usually
with some kind of instrumental accompaniment
art song (lied) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a song set to
serious poetry, usually for solo voice ans piano, in the
tradition of the German Lied
ballad - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a poem or sone that tells a
story
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binary form - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a musical form
consisting of two units (A and B) constructed to balance
and complement each other
cadence - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a point of arrival
signaling the end of a musical unit
cadenza - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ in a concerto, an
elaborate improvisation by the soloist on themes heard
earlier in the movement, with no accompaniment from
the orchestra. It occurs near the end of the
recapitulation
call-and-response - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a technique in
which one musician or group sings of plays an opening
motive, and another musician or group sings or plays
an answer
chamber music - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ instrumental
music for a small ensemble, with only one player per
part
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character piece - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a relatively short
work, usually for piano solo, that captures a particular
mood "character"
choral music - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ vocal music with
more than one singer to each part
chorus - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ an ensemble with
multiple singers to a part; chorus is also the name for
the musical number or movement sung by this
ensemble.
chromatic - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a type of harmony or
melody that incorporates many more notes than occur
naturally in the scale or key area on which a work is
based. A chromatic scale is produced by playing all half
steps.
coda - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Italian for tail; a section at
the end of a musical work or movement that stands
outside any formal structure and brings the whole to a
close
comic opera - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ In italian (opera
buffa). a genre that uses many of the same conventions
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as serious opera-arias, recitatives, ensembles,
choruses---but with plots revolving around believable,
everyday characters rather than mythical or historical
figures
concerto - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ an instrumental genre
for a soloist (or sometimes more than one soloist) and
a larger ensemble
Da capo - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Italian for "from the
head"; a direction to go back and play from the very
beginning of the piece
development - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ the section within a
sonata-form movement that thematically and
harmonically manipulates "develops" the movements
themes most intensively
dotted rhythm - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ consistent
alternation between long and short notes
double-exposition concerto form - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
a structure based on sonata form but with two
expositions, one for the orchestra alone and one for the
soloist and orchestra together. It also includes, near
the end of the recapulation, a cadenza for the soloist