Music 10 vocab
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- cantata
- Baroque era, sung, oratorio but shorter (sacred, opera components like recitative, aria, and chorus)
- basso continuo
- Baroque era, instrumental, continuous bass part
- canon
- imitative polyphony where one voice leads another exactly
- syllabic
- one note per syllable, common in recitative
- binary dance
- suite of dances, very balanced, [A A B B]
- cadence
- pause between melodies, the tension and release at the end of a strophe
- imitative polyphany
- in canons, where one voice leads another exactly
- strophe
- verse, stanza
- tonality
- context for pitch relationships, major and minor keys, expectations for consonance and dissonance
- texture
- describes how voices work together
- sonata
- instrumental (usually keyboard for solo), as opposed to cantata song [: A :] [: B A':]
- opera
- Baroque era, sung, contains recitative, aria, and chorus
- round
- voices enter systematically and play the same notes as each other
- chant-divine office
- Renaissance era, liturgical (religious), for people who worked at the church
- organum
- k
- timbre
- tone color that distinguishes character of instruments
- counterpoint
- several voices in polyphony harmonically playing different melodies
- string quartet
- four stringed instruments-violin, viola, ciolin-cello, bass
- rhythm
- h
- chant-mass
- Renaissance era, liturgical (religious), for weekly mass with citizens
- dissonance
- release
- madrigal
- Renaissance era, secular, vernacular texts (poems), word painting, polyphonic, repeating words, unaccompanied
- recitative
- tells a story, usually syllabic, starts and stops often, one voice
- opera seria
- j
- monophany
- one voice (melody)
- modulation
- traveling to another key
- basso ostinato
- Baroque era, instrumental, repeating bass pattern
- oratorio
- Baroque era, cantata but longer (sacred, opera components like recitative, aria, and chorus)
- fugue
- finale, complicated contrupunal mode of composition, one movement
- baroque concerto
- k
- classical concerto
- l
- consonance
- tension
- strophic
- j
- motet
- Medieval and Renaissance eras, multiple texts, sometimes multiple languages, mix of sacred and secular
- ritornello
- recurring passage
- pulse
- k
- aria
- emotional, repeated, less syllabicism, one voice
- melismatic
- several notes per syllable, common in plainchant and arias
- chant
- Renaissance era, consisted of mass and divine office
- liturgical vs. secular
- religious vs. non-religious
- polyphany
- several voices (melodies) playing separately, usually in counterpoint