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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. 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.
Tonic
Song cycle
Classicism
Opus
2. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
Tutti
March
Expressionism
Libretto
3. The movement of chords in succession.
Grazioso
Whole-tone scale
Progression
Vibrato
4. A harmonic given off by a note when it is played.
Overture
Triad
Unison
Partial
5. Vocal composition written for three or more solo parts - usually without instrumental accompaniment.
Major
Glee
Accelerando
Grandioso
6. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
EnharmonicInterval
Overture
Chord
Staccato
7. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
Rococo
Tone less
Register
Pitch
8. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Relative pitch
Castrato
Resonance
Polyphony
9. One who directs a group of performers. The conductor indicates the tempo - phrasing - dynamics - and style by gestures and facial expressions.
Slide
Conductor
Instrumentation
Modulation
10. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Falsetto
Scordatura
Accessible
Phrase
11. Arrangement of music for a combined number of instruments.
Stretto
Quintet
Modes
Instrumentation
12. A symbol in sheet music a direction to play energetically.
Pastoral
Musicology
Energico
Recitative
13. In sheet music - an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before stopping on the final chord.
Consonance
EnharmonicInterval
Da Capo
Classicism
14. A musical composition that has a romantic or dreamy character with nocturnal associations.
Nocturne
Flat
Interval
Deceptive cadence
15. Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist.
Sharp
Tonal
Tutti
Carol
16. A musical theme given to a particular idea or main character of an opera.
System
Leitmotif
Ostinato
Romantic
17. Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played gracefully.
Accessible
Movement
Expressionism
Grazioso
18. Curved line connecting notes to be sung or played as a phrase.
Fermata
Slide
Ligature
A cappella
19. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
Modes
Scherzo
Presto
Motif
20. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
A cappella
Tremolo
Sequence
Atonal
21. A set of six musicians who perform a composition written for six parts.
Triplet
Sextet
Whole note
Falsetto
22. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Castrato
Cadence
Recital
Scordatura
23. Tone color - quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound.
Octave
Timbre
Fifth
Orchestra
24. Curved line connecting notes to be sung or played as a phrase.
Ligature
Rococo
Suite
Renaissance
25. In sheet music - a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff.
Natural
Drone
Soprano
Clef
26. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Slur
Romantic
Chant
Stretto
27. A tempo having slow movement; restful at ease.
Relative pitch
Waltz
Adagio
Form
28. The opening section of a piece of music or movement.
Introduction
Staccato
Verismo
Parody
29. A whole note is equal to 2 half notes - 4 quarter notes - 8 eighth notes - etc.
March
Whole note
Polyphony
Grave
30. One of two or more parts in polyphonic music. Voice refers to instrumental parts as well as the singing voice.
Gavotte
Voice
Quintet
Suite
31. A curve over notes to indicate that a phrase is to be played legato.
Slur
Staff
Chorus
Canon
32. The interval between two notes. Two whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Da Capo
Grave
Vivace
Fourth
33. Ability to determine the pitch of a note as it relates to the notes that precede and follow it.
Suite
Ricercar
Relative pitch
Opus
34. One of two or more parts in polyphonic music. Voice refers to instrumental parts as well as the singing voice.
Madrigal
Stretto
Voice
Timbre
35. 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.
Ornaments
Treble
Key signature
Scordatura
36. A scale consisting of only whole-tone notes. Such a scale consists of only 6 notes.
Canon
Instrumentation
Whole-tone scale
Whole note
37. An extended cantata on a sacred subject.
Oratorio
Septet
Suite
Mezzo
38. A set of four musicians who perform a composition written for four parts.
Recital
Relative major and minor
System
Quartet
39. 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.
Ornaments
Interlude
Sonata
Tonal
40. 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.
Klangfarbenmelodie
Scordatura
Duet
Key signature
41. A piece of music written for two vocalists or instrumentalists.
Key
Nonet
Duet
Vivace
42. Singing in unison - texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.
Recital
Chant
Chorale
Accelerando
43. A musical scale having five notes.For example: the five black keys of a keyboard make up a pentatonic scale.
Overture
Timbre
Chromatic scale
Pentatonic Scale
44. The manner in which tones are produced with regard to pitch.
Clef
Galliard
Chant
Intonation
45. Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.
Waltz
Vivace
Theme
Dynamics
46. Includes all twelve notes of an octave.
Piano
Fourth
Progression
Chromatic scale
47. The highest female voice.
Deceptive cadence
Soprano
Song cycle
Accelerando
48. A line in a contrapuntal work performed by an individual voice or instrument.
Renaissance
Prelude
Relative major and minor
Part
49. A quick - improvisational - spirited piece of music.
Capriccio
Key
Etude
Tessitura
50. Closing section of a movement.
Gavotte
Coda
Ornaments
Relative major and minor