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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A set of five musicians who perform a composition written for five parts.
Monotone
Chromatic scale
Scordatura
Quintet
2. Often used in overtures - a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
Medley
Opera
String Quartet
Fourth
3. Direction to performer to play a composition in a brisk - lively - and spirited manner.
Vivace
Quintet
Reprise
Chorale
4. Singing or chanting in unison without strict rhythm. Collected during the Reign of Pope Gregory VIII for psalms and other other parts of the church service.
Trill
Espressivo
Gregorian Chant
Fugue
5. Repetition of a single tone.
Monotone
Conductor
Nonet
Temperament
6. Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played grandly.
Serenade
Slide
Grandioso
Ornaments
7. A piece of music played at the end of a recital responding to the audiences enthusiastic reaction to the performance - shown by continuous applause.
Encore
March
Castrato
Finale
8. Three note chords consisting of a root - third - and fifth.
Chorus
Triad
Reed
Clavier
9. A 17th century dance written in Quadruple time - always beginning on the third beat of the measure.
Accessible
Gavotte
Maestro
Expressionism
10. To shift to another key.
Sequence
Modulation
Maestro
Scale
11. A system of notation for stringed instruments. The notes are indicated by the finger positions.
Natural
String Quartet
Grazioso
Tablature
12. Direction to performer to play a composition in a brisk - lively - and spirited manner.
Vibrato
Ensemble
Chord progression
Vivace
13. One of two or more parts in polyphonic music. Voice refers to instrumental parts as well as the singing voice.
Sextet
Chord
Da Capo
Voice
14. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Parody
Clavier
Clef
Expressionism
15. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Baroque
Drone
Sequence
Elegy
16. Short movement or interlude connecting the main parts of the composition.
Nonet
Slur
Trill
Intermezzo
17. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Triple time
Drone
Tempo
Staccato
18. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
Triple time
Natural
Scherzo
Ligature
19. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
Form
Maestro
Motif
Quadrille
20. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three people
Trio
Twelve-tone music
Relative pitch
Galliard
21. Closing section of a movement.
Triple time
Encore
Coda
Allegro
22. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Finale
Accessible
Round
Tablature
23. A drama where the words are sung instead of spoken.
Cantata
Opera
Symphony
Chord
24. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Scale
Classicism
Triad
Octave
25. Pertains to tone or tones.
Tonal
Chromatic scale
Scherzo
Triad
26. Includes all twelve notes of an octave.
Conductor
Major
Chromatic scale
Intermezzo
27. A symbol indicating that the note is to be diminished by one semitone.
Modes
Flat
Duet
Partial
28. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Grandioso
Presto
Song cycle
Reed
29. String instruments that are picked instead of bowed.
Medley
Ricercar
Pizzicato
Serenade
30. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Tuning
Register
Chord progression
Vivace
31. A dance written in triple time - where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure.
Part
Cadenza
Waltz
Renaissance
32. Ability to determine the pitch of a note as it relates to the notes that precede and follow it.
Octave
Drone
Ricercar
Relative pitch
33. A group singing in unison.
Tone
Fermata
Chorus
Gregorian Chant
34. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved - especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Refrain
Nocturne
Classical
Harmony
35. To shift to another key.
Opera
Quadrille
Modulation
Verismo
36. A symbol indicating to play loud.
String Quartet
Register
Key
Forte
37. The distance in pitch between two notes.
Interval
Reprise
Tempo
Orchestration
38. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Movement
Leitmotif
System
Prelude
39. Two or more voices or instruments playing the same note simultaneously.
Chorus
Trio
Unison
Pastoral
40. A line in a contrapuntal work performed by an individual voice or instrument.
Trio
Musette
Capriccio
Part
41. Combining a number of individual but harmonizing melodies. Also known as counterpoint.
Polyphony
Rubato
Scordatura
Octet
42. A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices - usually without accompaniment.
Madrigal
Chamber music
Accessible
Tremolo
43. The range of an instrumental or a vocal part.
Form
Octave
Part
Tessitura
44. The voice between soprano and alto. Also - in sheet music - a direction for the tempo to be played at medium speed.
Mezzo
EnharmonicInterval
Recitative
Partita
45. A system of notation for stringed instruments. The notes are indicated by the finger positions.
Tablature
Libretto
Recital
Maestro
46. Where the musical themes and melodies are developed - written in sonata form.
Development
Scordatura
Medley
Whole-tone scale
47. The unit of musical rhythm.
Phrase
Beat
Energico
Introduction
48. The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.
Scordatura
Treble
Sonata form
Classicism
49. The first section of a movement written in sonata form - introducing the melodies and themes.
Exposition
Trio
Chant
Verismo
50. A style of male singing where by partial use of the vocal chords - the voice is able to reach the pitch of a female.
Notation
Piano
Falsetto
Interpretation