Music 1010 - Test 3

Bas

Quiet, indoor performance, usually performed to a small group of people, chamber groups

Haut

loud, outdoor performance, typically with a full orchestra or band

Baroque vs Romantic orchestra

Baroque orchestras (c. 1600-1750) were small, string-centered groups led by a harpsichord, featuring intricate, ornamented music. In contrast, Romantic orchestras (c. 1830-1900) were larger and more diverse, using expanded sections to create powerful, emotional, and dramatic sounds.

Strings

violin, viola, cello, bass

Woodwinds

wind instruments that include the piccolo, flute, oboe, english horn, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone

Brass

trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba

Pavane

stately Renaissance court dance in duple meter

Salterello

Italian jumping dance

Sarabande

A Baroque dance in slow triple meter, with a secondary accent on the second beat

Gavotte

Duple-meter French Baroque dance type with a moderate to quick tempo.

Bourree

Lively French Baroque dance type in duple meter.

Gigue (jig)

Popular English Baroque dance type, a standard movement of the Baroque suite, in a lively compound meter.

Courante

French Baroque dance, a standard movement of the suite, in triple meter at a moderate tempo.

Hornpipe

Country dance of the British Isles, often in a lively triple meter;

Susato

Composer of Three Dances

Vivaldi

four seasons

Haydn

String Quartet in E-Minor, Suprise symphony

Mozart

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor

Berlioz

Symphonie Fantastique

Debussy

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Charles Ives

Country Band March

Copland

Appalachian Spring

Ritornello

Short, recurring instrumental passage

Theme and Variation

a musical form in which a theme continually returns but is varied by changing the notes of the melody, the harmony, the rhythm, or some other feature of the music

Minuet and Trio

Compositional form -- derived from a dance -- in three parts: minuet (A), trio (B), minuet (A).

Sonata-Allegro

"First movement form." The three sections—exposition, development, and recapitulation—form a binary design.

Symphony

An elaborate musical composition for full orchestra, typically in four movements, at least one of which is traditionally in sonata form.

String quartet

2 violins, viola, cello

Program symphony

A multi-movement composition with extra-musical content that directs the attention of the listener to a literary or pictoral association

Symphonic poem

One-movement orchestral form that develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene, or creates a mood, generally associated with the Romantic era.

Concerto

a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra

Program music

instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene

Absolute music

instrumental music composed purely as music, and not intended to represent or illustrate something else.

Polytonality

the simultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities

Fugue

a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement

col legno

with the wood of the bow

Dynamics

Degrees of loudness or softness in music

Trills

a quavering or vibratory sound

Tempo

speed of music

Multi-movement cycle

instrumental piece with 3 or 4 separate movements