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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. The expression the performer brings when playing his instrument.
Modulation
Interpretation
Scale
Motif
2. A canon where the melody is sung in two or more voices. After the first voice begins - the next voice starts singing after a couple of measures are played in the preceding voice. All parts repeat continuously.
Round
Interlude
Choir
Suite
3. Two or three melodic lines played at the same time.
Counterpoint
Chord
Ligature
Triple time
4. A string of chords played in succession.
Rhythm
Chord progression
Orchestra
Parody
5. The first tone of a scale also known as a keynote.
Tonic
Flat
Chromatic scale
Pitch
6. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Accessible
Virtuoso
Orchestration
Scordatura
7. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Tone
Major
Virtuoso
Twelve-tone music
8. Three notes played in the same amount of time as one or two beats.
Chorale
Whole note
Triplet
Time Signature
9. A separate section of a larger composition.
Movement
Fifth
Baroque
Recital
10. A dance written in triple time - where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure.
Polytonality
Waltz
Accessible
Adagio
11. The element of music pertaining to time - played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
Rhythm
Partial
Modulation
Resonance
12. A dance written in triple time - where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure.
Waltz
Staff
Exposition
Interpretation
13. The piece of cane in wind instruments. The players cause vibrations by blowing through it in order to produce sound.
Interpretation
Capriccio
Pastoral
Reed
14. Combination of two or more keys being played at the same time.
Partial
Polytonality
Key signature
Reed
15. Group of singers in a chorus.
Choir
Cantata
Interval
Chamber music
16. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
March
Klangfarbenmelodie
Elegy
Grave
17. A composition written for nine instruments.
Choir
Cadenza
Nonet
Sextet
18. Unmusical - without tone.
Chant
Relative pitch
Ricercar
Tone less
19. A dirge - hymn - or musical service for the repose of the dead.
Requiem
Reed
Choir
Staff
20. The interval between two notes. Three whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Harmony
Fifth
String Quartet
Dynamics
21. Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.
Cantata
Dynamics
Nonet
Timbre
22. Movement or passage that concludes the musical composition.
Chorus
Quintet
Finale
Temperament
23. A scale consisting of only whole-tone notes. Such a scale consists of only 6 notes.
Concerto
EnharmonicInterval
Whole-tone scale
Chant
24. A sequence of chords that brings an end to a phrase - either in the middle or the end of a composition.
Counterpoint
Chorus
Cadence
Homophony
25. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Stretto
Staff
Tone less
Clavier
26. Piece of instrumental music played between scenes in a play or opera.
Partial
Chorus
Overture
Interlude
27. One who directs a group of performers. The conductor indicates the tempo - phrasing - dynamics - and style by gestures and facial expressions.
Dissonance
Slur
Reprise
Conductor
28. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three people
Unison
Chorus
Trio
Theme
29. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
March
Gavotte
Clef
Leading note
30. A line in a contrapuntal work performed by an individual voice or instrument.
Opera
Operetta
Classicism
Part
31. Tone color - quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound.
Glee
Timbre
Glissando
Minor
32. Tone color - quality of sound that distinguishes one verse or instrument to another. It is determined by the harmonies of sound.
EnharmonicInterval
Fifth
Timbre
Tempo
33. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
Tablature
Pitch
Forte
Virtuoso
34. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
Introduction
Temperament
Twelve-tone music
Scale
35. A style of male singing where by partial use of the vocal chords - the voice is able to reach the pitch of a female.
Relative pitch
Falsetto
Major
Sonata form
36. A musical theme given to a particular idea or main character of an opera.
Pitch
Unison
Baroque
Leitmotif
37. Harsh - discordant - and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Interlude
Sonata form
Scale
Dissonance
38. The distance in pitch between two notes.
Form
Duet
Quintet
Interval
39. A 17th century dance written in Quadruple time - always beginning on the third beat of the measure.
Gavotte
Major
Tempo
Recapitulation
40. Three note chords consisting of a root - third - and fifth.
Pentatonic Scale
Pastoral
Counterpoint
Triad
41. A sequence of songs - perhaps on a single theme - or with texts by one poet - or having continuos narrative.
Musette
Presto
Song cycle
Pitch
42. A form of writing for vocals that is close to the manner of speech and is rhythmically free.
Da Capo
Rhythm
Grandioso
Recitative
43. Refers to any great composer - conductor - or teacher of music.
Flat
Maestro
Interpretation
Cadenza
44. A set of five musicians who perform a composition written for five parts.
Quintet
Tune
Tonality
Scale
45. Includes all twelve notes of an octave.
Beat
Sonatina
Tessitura
Chromatic scale
46. Suite of Baroque dances.
Energico
Partita
Interval
Stretto
47. The principal note of a triad.
Verismo
Root
Operetta
Finale
48. First developed in the 8th century - methods of writing music.
Rondo
Notation
Homophony
Recitative
49. A single line of music played or sung. A musical sentence.
Allegro
Forte
Phrase
Ostinato
50. System of notes or tones based on and named after the key note.
Tonal
Minuet
Pitch
Key