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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Harmony
Chorale
Canon
Whole-tone scale
2. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Modes
Fugue
Verismo
Recital
3. Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist.
Major
Tutti
Time Signature
Tempo
4. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Fermata
Recital
Triplet
Cadenza
5. A string of chords played in succession.
Partita
Suite
Chord progression
Concerto
6. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Relative pitch
Atonal
Part
Tonic
7. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
Rococo
Madrigal
Nonet
Sharp
8. Groups of tones that are harmonious when sounded together as in a chord.
Movement
Sonata
Hymn
Consonance
9. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Ornaments
Falsetto
Cavatina
Suite
10. Closing section of a movement.
Round
Coda
Monotone
Musette
11. Indicating speed.
Tempo
Introduction
Allegro
Choir
12. Pertains to tone or tones.
Tonal
EnharmonicInterval
Minuet
Cavatina
13. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Symphony
Scale
Staccato
Tone less
14. A harmonic given off by a note when it is played.
Partial
Allegro
Piano
Ostinato
15. A composition based on previous work. A common technique used in Medieval and Renaissance music.
Parody
Scordatura
Key signature
Orchestra
16. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Musicology
Espressivo
Tonal
System
17. An extended cantata on a sacred subject.
Oratorio
Musicology
Chord progression
Waltz
18. The principal note of a triad.
Presto
Staccato
Root
Soprano
19. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Grave
Fugue
Stretto
Expressionism
20. A whole note is equal to 2 half notes - 4 quarter notes - 8 eighth notes - etc.
Verismo
Homophony
Whole note
Cantabile
21. A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song.
Nocturne
Modulation
Refrain
Relative pitch
22. A piece of music written in triple time. Also an old French dance.
Finale
Courante
Partial
Tremolo
23. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Scherzo
Presto
Orchestra
Stretto
24. A short or brief sonata.
Portamento
Instrumentation
Sonatina
Accessible
25. 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.
Twelve-tone music
Septet
Scordatura
Galliard
26. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Modulation
Interlude
Ricercar
Tuning
27. To hold a tone or rest held beyond the written value at the discretion of the performer.
Quartet
Sharp
Fermata
Song cycle
28. One of two or more parts in polyphonic music. Voice refers to instrumental parts as well as the singing voice.
Quadrille
Voice
Rigaudon
Motif
29. The interval between two notes. Two whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Fourth
Requiem
Register
Galliard
30. Slow and stately dance music written in triple time.
Chromatic scale
Encore
Courante
Minuet
31. The first violin in an orchestra.
Staccato
Intonation
Tonal
Concert master
32. Unmusical - without tone.
Fermata
Tone less
Cantata
Relative major and minor
33. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Castrato
A cappella
Klangfarbenmelodie
Tonic
34. A set of seven musicians who perform a composition written for seven parts.
Fugue
Septet
Key signature
Orchestra
35. A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect.
Portamento
Unison
Timbre
Fifth
36. Elaborate polyphonic composition of the Boroque and Renaissance periods.
A cappella
Ricercar
Symphony
Theme
37. Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
Orchestration
Measure
Chant
Harmony
38. The first tone of a scale also known as a keynote.
Ricercar
Impromptu
Tonic
Natural
39. Arrangement of music for a combined number of instruments.
Instrumentation
Quadrille
Cantata
Choir
40. A quick 20th century dance written in double time.
Vivace
Clavier
Rigaudon
Atonal
41. A line in a contrapuntal work performed by an individual voice or instrument.
Part
Finale
Romantic
Song cycle
42. A rhythmic succession of musical tones - a melody for instruments and voices.
Counterpoint
Natural
Tune
Stretto
43. A quick 20th century dance written in double time.
Coda
Rigaudon
Time Signature
Recital
44. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Sonata
Consonance
Tessitura
Clavier
45. Indicating speed.
Tempo
Etude
Register
Coda
46. 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.
Monotone
Elegy
Da Capo
Romantic
47. Sliding between two notes.
Etude
Chorus
Presto
Glissando
48. In sheet music - an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before stopping on the final chord.
Exposition
Da Capo
Major
Contralto
49. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
March
Triplet
Adagio
Slur
50. The structure of a piece of music.
Resonance
Cantata
Form
System