Beethoven key vocab

Sonata

Piece for a solo instrument

Virtuoso

Very difficult; need to be highly skilled to play it

Movements

Sections

Tempo

Speed

Classical

Period of music (1750-1830)

Romantic

Period of music (1830-1900s)

Crescendo

Get louder

Fortepiano

Early version of a piano

Homophonic

Chordal texture

Grave

Very slow tempo, solemn

Descending chromatic

Going down by semitones

Scalic

Scale

Sforzando

Suddenly loud to immediately soft

Sequence

Repeated moving (in pitch) pattern

Dominant

Fifth note of a scale

Trills

Notes next to eachother repeated quickly

Octaves

Notes an eighth apart

Broken chord

Playing notes in a chord one after another

Acciaccatura

Quick flick notes

Melody dominated homophony

Melody and accompaniment