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Section 1
(50 cards)
Accelerando
Gradual increase of speed
Gavotte
Baroque duple time dance in binary form, with a half-measure anacrusis and a characteristic rhythm of short-short-long.
Madrigal
Renaissance. Fourteenth century Italian poetic form and its musical setting having two or three stanzas followed by a Ritornello. Sixteenth century Italian poem having any number of lines, each of seven or eleven syllables.
calore
warmly
Toccata
Renaissance. Piece for keyboard instrument or Lute resembling an improvisation that may include imitative sections or may serve as a prelude to an independent fugue.
largamente
largely; broadly
Morendo
gradual softening
opera
Baroque. Italian. Drama with continuous or nearly continuous music, staged with scenery, costumes,and action.
Dolce
sweet
Chorale Prelude
Baroque. Relatively short setting for organ of a chorale melody, used as an introduction for congregational singing or as an interlude in a Lutheran church service
Animato
lively; spirited; animated
Pesante
heavy
Bouree
Baroque period. 17th century French dance usually in quick duple time.
subito
suddenly
tutti
all together; with all voices
L'istesso
same tempo during meter change
Gigue
Stylized dance movement of a standard Baroque suite in binary form, marked by fast compound meter such as 6 or 12 with wide melodic leaps and continuous 4 8 triplets. Both sections usually begin with imitation.
Symphony
Classical. Large work for orchestra, usually in four movements.
Symphonic poem
Romantic. Term coined by Franz Liszt for a one-movement work of program music for orchestra that conveys a poetic idea, story, scene, or succession of moods by presenting themes that are repeated, varied, or transformed.
Divertimento
Classical. a light entertaining composition, typically one in the form of a suite for chamber orchestra
Rondeau
Renaissance. French forme fixe with a single stanza and the musical form ABaAabAB, with capital letters indicating lines of refrain and lowercase letters indicating new text set to music from the refrain
Rubato
Relaxation of strict time
secco
dry
Passacaglia
Baroque. Baroque genre of variations over a repeated bass line of harmonic progression in triple meter.
Niente
nothing
Song cycle
Romantic. A group of art songs performed in succession that tells or suggests a story.
Troppo
too much
Aria
Baroque period. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, any setting of an Italian strophic poem for a singer. Lyrical monologue in an opera or other vocal work such as a cantata or an oratorio
Concerto
Baroque. Beginning in the seventeenth century, ensemble of instruments or of voices with one or more instruments, or a work for such an ensemble. Composition in which one or more solo instruments contrasts with an orchestral ensemble.
Fugue
Baroque. Composition or section of a composition in strict imitative counterpoint that is based on a single subject and begins with successive statements of the subject at contrasting pitches, usually the first or fifth scale degrees.
Sonata
Baroque instrumental piece with contrasting sections or movements, each based on different material or on variants of the same material. Genre in several movements for one or two solo instruments, often exploiting the idiomatic possibilities of a particular instrument.
Senza
without the repeat
Organum
Medieval. One of several styles of early polyphony from the ninth through the thirteenth centuries involving the addition of one or more voices to an existing chant.
Sarabande
Baroque. Originally a quick dance-song from Latin America. In French Baroque music, a slow dance in binary form and in triple meter, often emphasizing the second beat; a standard movement of a suite.
am steg
playing near the bridge
Etude
Romantic. An instrumental piece designed to develop a particular skill or performing technique. Certain nineteenth-century _____ that contained significant artistic content and were played in concert were called concert ________
Cantata
Baroque period. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a vocal chamber work with Continuo, usually for solo voice, consisting of several sections or movements that include recitatives and arias and setting a lyrical or quasi-dramatic text.
sotto voce
in a quiet voice
motet
Medieval and Renaissance. Polyphonic vocal composition having two or more independent voices, often with a different text in Latin or in French for each voice, usually above a Chant Tenor. From the fifteenth century on, any polyphonic setting of a Latin Text.
Chanson
Renaissance. Secular song with French words; used especially for polyphonic songs of the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.
Fanfare
short musical flourish that is typically played by trumpets or other brass instruments, often accompanied by percussion. A brief improvised introduction to an instrumental performance.
con
with
String Quartet
Classical. Standard chamber ensemble consisting of two violins, viola, and cello. Multimovement composition for this ensemble
Chorale
Renaissance. Strophic hymn in the Lutheran tradition, intended to be sung by the congregation in German.
Recitative
Baroque. A passage or section in an opera, oratorio, cantata, or other vocal work in that style. Sung in a rhythm of ordinary speech on the same note.
tacet
direction in music when instrument is silent
Meno
slow tempo
A due (A2)
both players play in unison
Suite
A set of pieces that are linked together in a single work. During the baroque, it is usually referred to a set of stylized dance pieces.
con sordini
with mutes
Section 2
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