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Music Test Three
Teminology
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Undergraduate 1
04/18/2010

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Accelerando
Definition
to go faster and faster
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Art Music (song)
Definition
Setting of a poem for solo voice and piano translating the poem's mood and imagery into music, common in the romantic period.
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Canon
Definition
polyphony
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character pieces
Definition
brief musical piece, intended for piano, that expresses a certain idea or mood. especially Germany
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conjunct
Definition
progressing melodically by intervals of a second.
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disjunct
Definition
Progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second.
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ethnomusicology
Definition
he study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts." [1]
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idée fixe
Definition
Term coined by Berlioz for a theme which recurs, perhaps obsessively, in different movements of a work
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libretto
Definition
he text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet.
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Musicology
Definition
is the scholarly study of music
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Nationalism
Definition
national material in a composition to associate it with the composer's homeland.
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Orchestration
Definition
is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble)
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Program Music
Definition
Instrumental music associated with a story, idea, or scene, often found in the romantic period.
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ritardando
Definition
becoming slower
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rubato
Definition
slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo to intensify the expression of the music, often used in romantic music
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song cycle
Definition
Group of art song unified by a story line that runs through their poems or by musical ideas linking the songs
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strophic
Definition
vocal form in which the same music is repeated for each stanza of a poem.
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timbre (tone color)
Definition
quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice form another.
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Tonality (key)
Definition
central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in relationship to which all other tones in the composition are heard.
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Transcription
Definition
can mean notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated, as, for example, an improvised jazz solo
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