Music and Conflict Exam 1

Pitch

How high or low a sound is

Rhythm

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.

Timbre

tone color

Woodwinds

flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon

Strings

violin, viola, cello, bass

Percussion

drums

Brass

trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba

Orchestra

All sections of music combined

Diegetic

sound that would be logically heard by the characters in the film

Nondiegetic

Sounds that aren't heard by characters in the film.

Idée Fixe

a fixed idea; an obsession

Romanticism

19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason

Call and Response

a song style in which a singer or musician leads with a call and a group responds

Dies Irae

Day of Wrath

Symphony

a long piece of music to be played by an orchestra

Lied / Lieder

German art song

Chamber Music

Music using a small group in a small venue

Schubertiade

Intimate social gathering, named for Franz Schubert, and featuring the composer and his friends providing music and poetry

Through-Composed

Song structure that is composed from beginning to end, without repetitions of large sections.

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem

Composer

a person who writes music

Librettist

the author of a libretto

Opera

a drama set to music

Recitative

dialog in an opera

Aria

operatic solo

Ensemble

Multiple singers in an opera singing different parts

Chorus

A group who says things at the same time

Symponie Fantastique Premiere Date

1830 Paris, Hector Berlioz

Der Erlkonig

1815 Franz Schubert based on the 1782 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don Giovanni

1787 Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan