Art History 4

Block chord is a chord in which all the pitches are sounded simultaneously, in contrast to an arpeggio.

The back-up musicians supporting a jazz tune, usually consisting of a piano, string bass, drum set, and guitar.

Vocal music sung without instrumental accompaniment is meno mosso.

A Soviet doctrine that required composers to write music in simple, accessible language that conveyed patriotic themes.

A simple structure of two contrasting halves, A and B.

Impresario is the "plot" or storyline of a ballet.

In jazz, the ensemble plays a single note together and then stops playing until the next measure.

The Soviets' pejorative term for modern abstract music.

Ideology a system of ideas or beliefs related to politics and society that often serves as the basis for action.

A type of vocal music in which there is a string of multiple notes that correspond to a single syllable of poetry.

A style of art, of the 20th century that expresses the artist's inner feelings about disturbing subject matter.

A technique in which the play bows two strings simultaneously to produce an interval.