Music Appreciation Final

Songs, dances and repartee performed by white men who blackened their skin to portray Africans

Occurance of acents on weak beats or between beats

Composed Ride of the Valkyries

Time period for Romantic

Program symphony

Romantic technique of robbing from the tempo at some points and paying it back at others

Short independent or introductory piece for keyboard

Small jazz ensemble

Two or more rhythmic patterns performed simultaneously

All of the dialogue, sound effects, and music of a film

French comic opera of a satirical or romantic nature. Can also be serious and realistic

Late-19th century mvmt in which artists of many Nat. turned from the dominant Ger. influence

A virtuosic instrumental study or exercise intended for concert performance

Character pieces of an improvisatory character

Complex highly improvised style of Jazz

Time period of the middle ages/ Renaissance

Music in which some elements of compocsition are left to the decision of performers, or chance

Composed Symphonie fantastique, Dream of a witches sabath

temporary music used to demonstrate to a films composer the type of music desired.

Time Period for The Baroque

Metronome

Diminution

Realism in opera

Mild style, performed by bands of moderate size, includes instruments not normal to jazz.

Multimovement form unified by recurrence of the same or similiar melodic material in 2 movement

Combination of jazz and concert music

Use of more than one meter at the same time.

Concert music with the sounds of jazz with no improvisation

Final scene of a musical show, where soloists simultaneously express their points of view.

Composed Mood Indigo

Recorded natural sound stored digitally and subject to electronic manipulation

Highly emotional style in art that sought to express disturbed states of mind

Franz shubert

Setting of humorous words sung very rapidly, with comic effect.

Piano whos strings have been altered by foreign material

Chord built on seconds

Improvised singing on neutral of nonsense syllables

Composed Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche

Piece in Ragtime

Concert overture

Melodic concept involving the selection of pitches from various, sometimes distant, octaves.

Style inspired by primitive works of art and by the relaxed life of unsophisticated cultures

German word for art songs

Motive

Main body of work of a given period

Nineteenth century Russian composers associated with nationalism

Literary movement sharing the ideal of the impressionists

Arrangement of the 12 chromatic pitches into a row provides melodic and harmonic basis

Who wrote Einstein on the Beach?

Music consisting of recorded and electronically altered sounds

Jazz styler melding rock thythm and electronic instruments

Recurring melodic fragment or chord bearing dramatic or emotion significance, intro. by Wagner.

Maple Leaf Rag

Art Song

Highly improvise style of big band music

Piece expressing the character of night

Avoidance of a tonic note and of tonal relationships in music

Strain

Film music heard by the audience only

Variation of a shaker hymn

Musical instruments eletronically expanded to alter sound

Lieder

General term for several romantic styles that succeded the dominance of German Romanticisim

composed Im wunderschonen Monat Mai

Music heard by the characters in the film and also by the audience

Idee Fixe

All of the music accompanying a film

Style of music and painting that avoids explicit statement, instead emphasizes suggestion.

Flexible notes chosen subjectively from between half steps of tonal scales

Comic or romantic form of music theater, sometimes called light opera. Inc. some spoken Dialog

WHite musicians version of New Orleans Jazz

The earliest electronical musical instrument

Vocal style that became jazz from an african american folk song

"Piano Blues" piano style derived from the formal structure of blues

Composed "Erlkonig"

One-movement orchestral piece whose form is based on programmatic principles

Popular piano style with syncopated melody on the right hand accompanied by bass in the left

Composed Afro American Symphony

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Musical show representing ideas subject to the audiences interpretation and leaving unresolved

Composed Lost your head

Break

Highly arranged style, with little room for improv.

Thematic transformation

Exploration of previously unknown aspects of musical sound.

Composed "The Perilous Night"

Who composed Putnams camp?

Series of tones on which a serial composition is based.

Two or more keys at the same time

Composed Sound Patterns

Style in which musician improvise independently sometimes producing a random effect

Interval half way between half steps

Orchestral suite

Popular music rooted from Africathat developed in early-20th-century America.

Composed Hotter than that

Music performed by a small combo whose soloists take turns improvising on a given tune

Time period for Classical

Lush orchetralscores associated with films from the 1930s, 40s, 50s

Wagners concept of music in theater in which the drama and the music were theoretically equal

Composed a Cathedrale Engloutie

Espressive slide between pitches

Indonesian percussion ensemble

Song like character pieces

Style in which geometric planes are imposed on subjects of every nature.

The Banshee

Composed Nocturne in E-flat Major

Relatively short piano piece in a characteristic style or mood

19th century French serious opera style, which emphasized spectacular visual effects.

Dies irae

Composed symphony No.5

Trio