Music Terminology
Across
- 3. third and final second of a sonata form movement, in which the themes of the exposition return, now in the home key of the movement.
- 5. A form often found in the first and last movements of sonatas, symphonies, and string quartet’s, consisting of three parts, exposition, development, and recapitulation.
- 7. instrumental music intended to represent something extra musical such as a poem, narrative, drama, or picture, or the ideas, images, or sounds therein.
- 8. A musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale.
- 9. A musical piece for several solo voices set to a short poem.
- 11. The practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition
- 13. famous melody that appears in all five movements of Berlioz’s symphonic Fantastique to represent the beloved from the program.
- 17. a glide from one pitch to another
- 18. A genre of music in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far off land or ancient times.
- 21. A composition setting a poem to music, generally for one solo voice and piano accompaniment.
- 23. short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch.
- 24. unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
- 25. Composing music using a series of values assigned to musical elements such as pitch, duration, dynamics, and instrumentation.
Down
- 1. A momentary speeding up or slowing down of the tempo within a melody line, literally “robbing” Time from one note to give to another.
- 2. utilized by Renaissance composers to represent poetic images musically.
- 4. an operatic Number using speech-like melodies and rhythms, performing using a flexible tempo, to a sparse accompaniment, most often provided by the basso continuo.
- 6. Music that seeks to avoid both the traditional rules of harmony and the use of chords or skills that provide a tonal center.
- 10. vocal music without instruments accompaniment.
- 12. text set to a melody written in monophonic texture with un-notated rhythms typically used in religious worship.
- 14. middle section of a sonata – form movement in which the themes and key areas introduced in the exposition are developed
- 15. catholic celebration of the Eucharist consisting of liturgical texts set to music by composers starting in the Middle Ages.
- 16. musical texture comprised of one melodic line.
- 19. homophonic compositions featuring a solo singer over orchestral accompaniment.
- 20. first section of a sonata form movement, in which the themes and key areas of the movement are introduced; the section normally modulate from the home key to a different key
- 22. Repeated unifying sections found in between the solo sections Of a concerto grosso.