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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
Minor
Expressionism
Gregorian Chant
Overture
2. A quick 20th century dance written in double time.
Finale
Rigaudon
Duet
Interlude
3. A composition written for a solo instrument. The soloist plays the melody while the orchestra plays the accompaniment.
Resonance
Unison
Concerto
Glissando
4. Repetition of a single tone.
Pitch
Grandioso
Libretto
Monotone
5. The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Castrato
Soprano
Key signature
Finale
6. The distance in pitch between two notes.
Tessitura
Clef
Partial
Interval
7. The playing or singing the upper half of the vocal range. Also the highest voice in choral singing.
Interlude
Treble
System
Orchestration
8. 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.
Rococo
Operetta
Slide
Canon
9. Music composed such that each note is used the same number of times.
Canon
Twelve-tone music
Drone
Courante
10. The raising and lowering a pitch of an instrument to produce the correct tone of a note.
Allegro
Deceptive cadence
Tuning
Pastoral
11. A form of music written for marching in two-step time. Originally the march was used for military processions.
Chord
Interlude
Scherzo
March
12. Indicating speed.
Tempo
Form
Carol
Dynamics
13. The interval between two notes. Two whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Instrumentation
Triple time
Fourth
Portamento
14. A loose collection of instrumental compositions.
Timbre
Tritone
Suite
A cappella
15. Dull - monotonous tone such as a humming or buzzing sound. Also a bass note held under a melody.
Rigaudon
Symphony
Drone
Ricercar
16. A Boroque dance with a drone-bass.
Pentatonic Scale
Form
Musette
Romantic
17. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Courante
Notation
Grandioso
System
18. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Choir
Harmony
Octave
Counterpoint
19. Where the musical themes and melodies are developed - written in sonata form.
Measure
Rubato
Tonal
Development
20. A repeated phrase.
Drone
Classical
Ostinato
Intermezzo
21. A book of text containing the words of an opera.
Libretto
Resonance
Classicism
Medley
22. A short piano piece - often improvisational and intimate in character.
Impromptu
Timbre
Maestro
Nonet
23. 3 or 4 notes played simultaneously in harmony.
Maestro
Scherzo
Fourth
Chord
24. The highest female voice.
Mezzo
Soprano
Measure
Adagio
25. Two notes that differ in name only. The notes occupy the same position.For example: C sharp and D flat.
EnharmonicInterval
Stretto
Cantabile
Triple time
26. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Rondo
Vibrato
Staccato
Measure
27. A 19th century square dance written for 4 couples.
Finale
Quadrille
Cavatina
Libretto
28. A composition whose style is simple and idyllic; suggestive of rural scenes.
Chamber music
Maestro
Musette
Pastoral
29. A piece of music written in triple time. Also an old French dance.
Harmony
Courante
Cantabile
Triple time
30. A song or hymn celebrating Christmas.
Tonality
Carol
Clavier
Adagio
31. Three note chords consisting of a root - third - and fifth.
Dissonance
Maestro
Triad
Elegy
32. When several strings are tuned to harmonically related pitches - all strings vibrate when only one of the strings is struck.
Resonance
Pizzicato
Concert master
Renaissance
33. In sheet music - a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff.
Clef
Glee
Tonality
Cantata
34. 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.
Leading note
Major
Classicism
Intermezzo
35. Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
Whole note
Key
Intonation
Atonal
36. Pertains to tone or tones.
Allegro
Tonal
Chamber music
Romantic
37. A set of four musicians who perform a composition written for four parts.
Quartet
Tonality
Staccato
Nocturne
38. A quick - improvisational - spirited piece of music.
Capriccio
Triple time
Choir
Fourth
39. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
Libretto
Harmony
Motif
Relative pitch
40. Pertains to tone or tones.
Unison
Tonal
Ensemble
Tempo
41. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Capriccio
Cadenza
Tone less
Chorale
42. The highest female voice.
Finale
Prelude
Soprano
Verismo
43. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Intonation
Octet
Presto
Time Signature
44. A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect.
Espressivo
Portamento
Refrain
Tonality
45. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Timbre
Recital
Unison
Sonata form
46. Piece of instrumental music played between scenes in a play or opera.
Interlude
Klangfarbenmelodie
Trill
Castrato
47. Music written to be sung or played in unison.
Obbligato
Vivace
Recital
Homophony
48. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Tempo
Fermata
Slide
Octave
49. 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.
Symphony
Capriccio
Round
Carol
50. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Gavotte
Fifth
System
Nonet