Midterm Review

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Across
  1. 3. "distance" in pitch between any 2 tones
  2. 5. very fast
  3. 7. religious use or through religious influence
  4. 8. Broad and slow
  5. 10. slow
  6. 13. basic pace of the music
  7. 14. sequence of notes that are grouped together
  8. 16. large-scale drama sung with orchestral accompaniment
  9. 17. dominant intellectual movement of the renaissance focused on human life
  10. 19. combination of 3 or more notes played at once
  11. 20. script/text of an opera
  12. 23. Walking pace
  13. 25. a symbol to indicate silence in music
  14. 26. composition where material started at the beginning reoccurs throughout piece
  15. 30. prelude phrase
  16. 31. loud
  17. 32. pattern of movement within a piece
  18. 33. tone combination that is unstable and tense
  19. 35. two-part form 1st is dominant or relative minor 2nd is tonic
  20. 36. 5 horizontal lines that notes are placed on or between
  21. 37. tone color/quality of a note
  22. 38. free vocal used for dialogue or narrative in opera
  23. 42. performance of 2 or more melodic lines of equal interest
  24. 44. section of sonata in which themes are expanded upon
  25. 46. gradually softer
  26. 47. composition for several voices set to s short secular poem
  27. 48. post musician that lived in france and wrote poems during the middle ages
  28. 49. becoming slower
Down
  1. 1. Short melody in one part imitated by interwoven parts
  2. 2. continuous bass
  3. 4. sequence of notes dividing an octave
  4. 6. faster than presto
  5. 7. multi-movement work for one instrument or one instrument + piano
  6. 9. distance between highest and lowest pitch/note
  7. 11. fast, quick and bright
  8. 12. recurrent phrase throughout a composition
  9. 15. technique of combining 2+ melodic lines into a meaningful whole
  10. 18. moderately fast
  11. 19. phrase with a strong resolution to the previous phase
  12. 21. indicates a single note that is louder than others
  13. 22. moderately soft
  14. 24. with the bow
  15. 27. composition by a particular composer
  16. 28. widely used keyboard instrument of great versatility
  17. 29. sharp or flat signs immediately follwing clef
  18. 34. change from one tonality to another
  19. 39. ending of a phrase
  20. 40. Very loud
  21. 41. relative highness or lowness of a sound
  22. 43. symbol placed on musical staff to determine pitch of notes
  23. 44. variations in loudness
  24. 45. piece that sounds complete but is part of a larger composition