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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A period in history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional - expressive - and imaginative style.
Phrase
Staff
Romantic
Chord
2. A musical composition written solely to improve technique. Often performed for artistic interest.
Etude
Legato
Timbre
Encore
3. A composition written for eight instruments.
Tone less
Time Signature
Resonance
Octet
4. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Clef
Musette
Sequence
Madrigal
5. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Drone
Castrato
Whole note
Flat
6. A system of notation for stringed instruments. The notes are indicated by the finger positions.
Rubato
Tempo
Tablature
System
7. Groups of tones that are harmonious when sounded together as in a chord.
Glee
Part
Consonance
Verismo
8. A symbol in sheet music that returns a note to its original pitch after it has been augmented or diminished.
Orchestration
Tonal
Natural
Scale
9. A piece of music written for two vocalists or instrumentalists.
Etude
Pentatonic Scale
Accelerando
Duet
10. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
Fifth
Atonal
Madrigal
Temperament
11. A short light musical drama.
Leading note
Operetta
Quartet
Concert master
12. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1800's and lasted about sixty years. There was a strong regard for order and balance.
Modes
Classicism
Cantata
Cantata
13. A song of praise and glorification. Most often to honor God.
Tutti
Hymn
Canon
Portamento
14. A short piano piece - often improvisational and intimate in character.
Chamber music
Impromptu
Parody
Staccato
15. Refers to any great composer - conductor - or teacher of music.
Trio
Cadenza
Staccato
Maestro
16. Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist.
Quartet
Root
Tutti
Staccato
17. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
Scale
Consonance
Key
Triad
18. A symbol indicating to play loud.
Sonata form
Forte
Interlude
Modulation
19. 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
Tone less
String Quartet
Castrato
20. The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.
Recital
Notation
Leading note
Musette
21. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
Tone less
Medley
Scherzo
Pitch
22. The expression the performer brings when playing his instrument.
Twelve-tone music
Gregorian Chant
Interpretation
Intonation
23. The distance in pitch between two notes.
Rococo
Register
Interval
Nocturne
24. A short or brief sonata.
Refrain
Contralto
Sonatina
String Quartet
25. Three to four movement orchestral piece - generally in sonata form.
Development
Clavier
Tone less
Symphony
26. Harsh - discordant - and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Nocturne
Dissonance
Canon
Chorus
27. Slow and stately dance music written in triple time.
Trio
Nonet
Minuet
Scherzo
28. Tone color - quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound.
Relative pitch
Orchestration
Pizzicato
Timbre
29. A musical form where the melody or tune is imitated by individual parts at regular intervals. The individual parts may enter at different measures and pitches. The tune may also be played at different speeds - backwards - or inverted.
Measure
Waltz
Natural
Canon
30. The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Root
Key signature
Hymn
Slide
31. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Recital
Fugue
Polytonality
Tritone
32. A symbol indicating that the note is to be diminished by one semitone.
Chord progression
Musette
Dynamics
Flat
33. A dirge - hymn - or musical service for the repose of the dead.
Introduction
Musette
Relative major and minor
Requiem
34. A rhythmic succession of musical tones - a melody for instruments and voices.
Ostinato
Da Capo
Tune
Orchestration
35. Introduction to an opera or other large musical work.
Relative major and minor
Sonatina
Fourth
Overture
36. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Minor
Neoclassical
Concerto
Allegro
37. Time in music history ranging from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th centuries. Characterized by emotional - flowery music; written in strict form.
Baroque
Canon
Duet
Presto
38. 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.
Sequence
Quartet
Classical
Leading note
39. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Theme
Tuning
Root
Fifth
40. A quick - improvisational - spirited piece of music.
Drone
Clef
Capriccio
Key
41. A dirge - hymn - or musical service for the repose of the dead.
Tessitura
Requiem
Flat
Key signature
42. A form of writing for vocals that is close to the manner of speech and is rhythmically free.
Concert master
Chant
Interlude
Recitative
43. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Form
Staccato
Hymn
Requiem
44. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1800's and lasted about sixty years. There was a strong regard for order and balance.
Gavotte
Chord progression
Trio
Classicism
45. When several strings are tuned to harmonically related pitches - all strings vibrate when only one of the strings is struck.
Resonance
Round
Polyphony
Prelude
46. A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song.
Treble
Refrain
Chorale
Concerto
47. The distance in pitch between two notes.
Resonance
Symphony
Resonance
Interval
48. A direction to play lively and fast.
Atonal
Intermezzo
Allegro
Ligature
49. Music of a particular form consisting of four movements. Each of the movements differ in tempo - rhythm - and melody; but are held together by subject and style.
Sonata
Tremolo
Presto
Tritone
50. A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect.
Portamento
Rhythm
Tutti
Sextet