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DA CAPO |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:50:12 GMT |
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| An unstaged dramatic sacred work, featuring solo singers? |
ORATORIO |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:50:12 GMT |
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| A musical setting of the story from the gospels of the death and resurrection of Jesus? |
A PASSION |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:39:52 GMT |
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| A carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a theme that occurs in all the voices, or musical lines, in turn? |
FUGUE |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:39:52 GMT |
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| A rambling , improvisatory piece of the kind that organists play to fill in time before, during, or after a chruch service? |
PRELUDE |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:39:52 GMT |
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| Music that is designed to tell a story? |
PROGRAM MUSIC |
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| Exploits the contrast between the solo instruments and the orchestra in a highly organized way? |
RITORNELLO |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:17:44 GMT |
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| Freer in form and quite short? |
RECITATIVE |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:17:44 GMT |
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| Usually written in set forms with a fixed pattern of repetition? |
ARIAS |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:17:44 GMT |
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| A type of music written for solo Voice and basso continuo that imitated the natural rhythms of impassioned speech? |
MONODY |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:17:44 GMT |
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| Basso continuo is AKA? |
CONTINUO |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:12:36 GMT |
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| A composition based on the gospel account of the last days of Jesus? |
PASSION |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:12:36 GMT |
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| A hymn with a steady rhythm and simple tune, usually sung in unison by the whole congregation? |
CHORALE |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:12:36 GMT |
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| A work for a small group of instruments? |
sonata |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:12:36 GMT |
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| Are chamber works, smaller in scale than concertos and less dependent on contrast? |
SONATAS |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:00:13 GMT |
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| Instrumental work, usually in three movements, highlighting contrast? |
CONCERTO |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:00:13 GMT |
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| A serious contrapuntal instrmental piece based on the style of secular songs? |
CANZONA |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:00:13 GMT |
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| Secular vocals pieces for a small group of singers, usually unaccompanied? |
MADRIGAL |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:00:13 GMT |
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| A musical passage that presents a single tiny musical phrase imitated among the voices? |
POINT OF IMITATION |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:48:52 GMT |
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| The next group of voices begins it's statements just as the first group comes to a cadence? |
OVERLAPPING CACDENCES |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:48:52 GMT |
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| Are like colors used in paintings? |
MODES |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:48:52 GMT |
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| A large number of notes sung to a single syllable? |
MELISMATIC |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:48:52 GMT |
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| The vocal music for church services from the middle ages is known as? |
PLAINCHANT |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:43:47 GMT |
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| A special effect involving dynamic contrast in which the exact repetition of a phrase at a lower volume suggest distance? |
ECHO |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:43:47 GMT |
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| Echoing the meaning of words? |
WORD-PAINTING |
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MichaelMorano Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:43:47 GMT |
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| Renaissance? |
REBIRTH |
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