N5 music Classical and baroque

Classical and baroque N5 terms

Alberti bass

Broken chords (low, high, middle, high)

Coda

End (can last a few bars or be complex/longer)

Sforzando

Suddenly loud (sfz)

Symphony

No main solo instruments

Cadenza

Solo instrument + orchestra, there will be cadenza at end of last movement

Aria

Important solo from orchestra & continues story

Chorus

Group of of singers with several people to each part

Descent

Counter melody above main melody

Oboe

Nasally noise double reed woodwind

French horn

Soft sounding, if there’s a horn it’s probably French horn

Syllabic

Vocal music where each syllable given one note

Melismatic

Vocal music in which several notes are sung to one syllable

Ostinato

Musical pattern repeated

Glissando

Sliding between two notes

Binary

2 different sections AB or AA BB

Ternary

ABA first section repeated at the end

Rondo

A B A C A first section (A) comes back betweencontrasting sections

Perfect cadence

Is dominant to tonic codes (v-1) in the key of major chords G-C

Imperfect cadence

Finishes on chord v-second chord is dominant v, unfinished effect

Inverted pedal

A pedal which sounds in an upper apart instead of the bass

Pedal

A note which is held or repeated continuously in the bass beneath changing harmonies