Music Terminology

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Across
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 7. instrumental music intended to represent something extra musical such as a poem, narrative, drama, or picture, or the ideas, images, or sounds therein.
  4. 8. A musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale.
  5. 9. A musical piece for several solo voices set to a short poem.
  6. 11. The practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition
  7. 13. famous melody that appears in all five movements of Berlioz’s symphonic Fantastique to represent the beloved from the program.
  8. 17. a glide from one pitch to another
  9. 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.
  10. 21. A composition setting a poem to music, generally for one solo voice and piano accompaniment.
  11. 23. short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch.
  12. 24. unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
  13. 25. Composing music using a series of values assigned to musical elements such as pitch, duration, dynamics, and instrumentation.
Down
  1. 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. 2. utilized by Renaissance composers to represent poetic images musically.
  3. 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.
  4. 6. Music that seeks to avoid both the traditional rules of harmony and the use of chords or skills that provide a tonal center.
  5. 10. vocal music without instruments accompaniment.
  6. 12. text set to a melody written in monophonic texture with un-notated rhythms typically used in religious worship.
  7. 14. middle section of a sonata – form movement in which the themes and key areas introduced in the exposition are developed
  8. 15. catholic celebration of the Eucharist consisting of liturgical texts set to music by composers starting in the Middle Ages.
  9. 16. musical texture comprised of one melodic line.
  10. 19. homophonic compositions featuring a solo singer over orchestral accompaniment.
  11. 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
  12. 22. Repeated unifying sections found in between the solo sections Of a concerto grosso.