Music Appreciation Final

Metronome

Time period for Classical

Orchestral suite

Composed symphony No.5

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

Improvised singing on neutral of nonsense syllables

Idee Fixe

WHite musicians version of New Orleans Jazz

The earliest electronical musical instrument

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

Film music heard by the audience only

Character pieces of an improvisatory character

Relatively short piano piece in a characteristic style or mood

Indonesian percussion ensemble

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

Franz shubert

Two or more rhythmic patterns performed simultaneously

The Banshee

Composed Hotter than that

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

Occurance of acents on weak beats or between beats

Who wrote Einstein on the Beach?

Flexible notes chosen subjectively from between half steps of tonal scales

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

Strain

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

Time Period for The Baroque

Nineteenth century Russian composers associated with nationalism

Composed a Cathedrale Engloutie

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

Avoidance of a tonic note and of tonal relationships in music

Jazz styler melding rock thythm and electronic instruments

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

Composed Nocturne in E-flat Major

composed Im wunderschonen Monat Mai

Chord built on seconds

Musical instruments eletronically expanded to alter sound

Concert overture

Recorded natural sound stored digitally and subject to electronic manipulation

Piece in Ragtime

Who composed Putnams camp?

Espressive slide between pitches

Style in which musician improvise independently sometimes producing a random effect

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

Exploration of previously unknown aspects of musical sound.

Composed Ride of the Valkyries

Main body of work of a given period

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

Literary movement sharing the ideal of the impressionists

Composed "The Perilous Night"

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

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

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

All of the music accompanying a film

Lieder

Trio

A virtuosic instrumental study or exercise intended for concert performance

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

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

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

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

Composed Sound Patterns

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

Complex highly improvised style of Jazz

Music consisting of recorded and electronically altered sounds

Composed Lost your head

Maple Leaf Rag

Art Song

Composed "Erlkonig"

Concert music with the sounds of jazz with no improvisation

Combination of jazz and concert music

Highly arranged style, with little room for improv.

Short independent or introductory piece for keyboard

Dies irae

Composed Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche

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

Composed Afro American Symphony

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

Small jazz ensemble

Program symphony

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

Time period of the middle ages/ Renaissance

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

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

Series of tones on which a serial composition is based.

Time period for Romantic

Diminution

German word for art songs

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

Motive

Highly improvise style of big band music

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

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

Break

Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Composed Mood Indigo

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

Piano whos strings have been altered by foreign material

Variation of a shaker hymn

Two or more keys at the same time

Use of more than one meter at the same time.

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

Song like character pieces

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

Thematic transformation

Realism in opera

Piece expressing the character of night

Composed Symphonie fantastique, Dream of a witches sabath

Interval half way between half steps

Vocal style that became jazz from an african american folk song