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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A repeated phrase.
Staff
Medley
Homophony
Ostinato
2. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony.
Chord
Exposition
String Quartet
Atonal
3. Combining a number of individual but harmonizing melodies. Also known as counterpoint.
Soprano
Vivace
Polyphony
Rhythm
4. 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
Time Signature
Tempo
Tempo
5. A form of Italian opera beginning at the end of the 19th century. The setting is contemporary to the composer's own time - and the characters are modeled after every day life.
Twelve-tone music
Verismo
Baroque
Falsetto
6. Curved line connecting notes to be sung or played as a phrase.
Tonic
Neoclassical
Modulation
Ligature
7. An instrumental lament with praise for the dead.
Elegy
Obbligato
March
Natural
8. In sheet music - a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff.
Courante
Suite
Clef
Relative major and minor
9. Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played smoothly.
Fourth
Legato
Instrumentation
Cadence
10. A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices - usually without accompaniment.
Baroque
Madrigal
Rubato
Tessitura
11. A short piano piece - often improvisational and intimate in character.
System
Dissonance
Treble
Impromptu
12. To shift to another key.
Modulation
Harmony
Monotone
Cantabile
13. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Accessible
Rigaudon
Root
Partita
14. The movement of chords in succession.
Progression
Interlude
Musicology
Minuet
15. A song of praise and glorification. Most often to honor God.
Fifth
Hymn
Octet
Rubato
16. A direction to play expressively.
Harmony
Coda
Chant
Espressivo
17. Dull - monotonous tone such as a humming or buzzing sound. Also a bass note held under a melody.
Trill
March
Drone
Hymn
18. Music written for a lively French dance for two performers written in triple time.
Galliard
Consonance
Flat
Leading note
19. Three to four movement orchestral piece - generally in sonata form.
Major
Conductor
Cadenza
Symphony
20. Two notes that differ in name only. The notes occupy the same position.For example: C sharp and D flat.
Tune
Parody
EnharmonicInterval
Development
21. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Rubato
Grave
Twelve-tone music
Song cycle
22. The interval between two notes. Three whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Requiem
Triplet
Tone less
Fifth
23. A string of chords played in succession.
Chord progression
Chromatic scale
Round
Tremolo
24. A glissando or portamento. Also refers to the moving part of a trombone.
Staff
Beat
Rigaudon
Slide
25. Suite of Baroque dances.
Septet
Fourth
Temperament
Partita
26. A melodic or - sometimes a harmonic idea presented in a musical form.
Prelude
Forte
Mezzo
Theme
27. A group singing in unison.
Requiem
Chorus
Septet
Tone less
28. When several strings are tuned to harmonically related pitches - all strings vibrate when only one of the strings is struck.
Minuet
Resonance
Minor
Flat
29. A direction to play expressively.
Espressivo
Scale
Concerto
Polytonality
30. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Mezzo
Chromatic scale
Twelve-tone music
Opera
31. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Rhythm
Introduction
Finale
Vibrato
32. An instruction in sheet music to play softly. Abbreviated by a 'p'.
Grave
Monotone
Piano
Baroque
33. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
Cadence
Chorale
Tone less
Sharp
34. One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark - melancholic mood.
Whole-tone scale
Staff
Minor
Da Capo
35. 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.
Accessible
Hymn
Prelude
Classical
36. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Octave
Harmony
Recitative
Interval
37. To repeat a previous part of a composition generally after other music has been played.
Reprise
Energico
Triple time
Notation
38. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Tutti
Stretto
Modulation
Legato
39. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Ornaments
Pentatonic Scale
Rondo
Partial
40. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Interpretation
Conductor
System
Counterpoint
41. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Recitative
Castrato
Elegy
Trill
42. The structure of a piece of music.
Cadenza
Form
Cadence
Motif
43. Convenient method of numbering a composer's works where a number follows the word 'opus'.For example - Opus 28 - No. 4.
Opera
Fifth
Opus
Choir
44. A curve over notes to indicate that a phrase is to be played legato.
Chord progression
Slur
Intermezzo
Staccato
45. Rapid alternation between notes that are a half tone or whole tone apart.
Opus
Trill
Part
Verismo
46. Where the musical themes and melodies are developed - written in sonata form.
Refrain
Ostinato
Measure
Development
47. A short light musical drama.
Cadenza
Major
Key
Operetta
48. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Canon
Relative major and minor
Classical
Atonal
49. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Falsetto
Root
Sonatina
Sequence
50. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Accessible
Pentatonic Scale
Ostinato
Allegro