| 100601. |
Music Term: (Gk., 'new') - A prefix indicating a new interest in older styles (e.g. neo- romantic refers to composers in the 20th century writing in the romantic style).
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| 100602. |
Music Term: - Describes a trend, especially in the 1920's, characterised by its use of the concerto grosso technique, contrapuntal writing and avoidance of emotion. Neo-classical composers included Stravinsky and Hindemith.
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| 100603. |
Music Term: - (I) In the early 17th century this described the new expressive music; (2) Between 1850 and 1900 it described the new music of Wagner and Liszt as opposed to the more traditional music of Brahms; (3) Today it refers to music by contemporary composers.
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| 100604. |
Music Term: (It.) - Nothing. A niente, to nothing. Used after a diminuendo symbol to indicate the sound dying away entirely. nobile, nobilmente (It.) - Noble, nobly.
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| 100605. |
Music Term: - A night piece with two main meanings: (1) In the 18th century this was a composition close to a serenade for several instruments and movements. (2) In the romantic period it was a short Iyrical piece in one movement for piano (e.g. by Chopin). noel (Fr., 'Christmas') - A Christmas carol. non (Fr. and It.) - Not.
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| 100606. |
Music Term: - A note which is not part of the chord with which it sounds. This could mean a passing note or an appoggiatura.
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| 100607. |
Music Term: (It., 'changed note') - A contrapuntal device whereby a dissonant note is used when one expects a consonant one.
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| 100608. |
Music Term: - Written music, by ordinary staff notation symbols or graphic representation or simply by letter-names (e.g. the tonic sol-fa.
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| 100609. |
Music Term: - The performance of a group of adjacent notes simultaneously on the piano, e. g. with the forearm or a piece of wood. Pioneered by Cowell in 1912 and used by Ives. Also known as tone cluster.
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| 100610. |
Music Term: - This occurs in 20th century serial music, also called dodecaphonic music or twelve-note music. It is the order in which the composer chooses to arrange the twelve notes, which serves as the foundation of the composition. novelette (Eng.) or novellette (Ger.) - A short, instrumental, romantic piece. The term was first used by Schumann for a piano work in 1848.
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| 100611. |
Music Term: (It., 'obligatory') - An obbligato part is one which has an important and unusual special role and cannot be dispensed with, as opposed to an optional part. However, in some l9th century music, the term obbligato was applied to an additional optional part.
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| 100612. |
Music Term: - Describes the movement of parts or melodies when one remains on the same note and the other moves in some direction.
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| 100613. |
Music Term: - The interval of eight steps (e.g. C to C on the white notes of the piano).
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| 100614. |
Music Term: - A composition for eight voices or instruments, or simply eight people.
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| 100615. |
Music Term: - The setting of a poem entitled 'ode' to music.
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| 100616. |
Music Term: (Ger.) - Without.
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| 100617. |
Music Term: - Abbreviation of Latin opus, work. Used as a publishers' catalogue system to indicate the order in which a composer's works have been published. The higher the opus number, the later the music was published in a composer's lifetime.
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| 100618. |
Music Term: - A drama in which all or most characters sing and in which music is an important element. Early composers of opera include Monteverdi and Purcell. Other composers are Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner (who preferred the term music drama), Puccini, and in the 20th century, Berg and Britten.
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| 100619. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - A light, often satirical opera or operetta (e.g. by Offenbach).
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| 100620. |
Music Term: (It.) - A comic opera especially in the 18th century (e.g. by Pergolesi).
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| 100621. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - This term describes comic opera but has two special meanings: (1) A type of French comic opera with spoken dialogue, lighter than current serious operas in the 18th century; (2) An opera, comic or otherwise, with spoken dialogue (e.g. Bizet's Carmen in the l9th century).
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| 100622. |
Music Term: (It.) - Serious opera and opposite of opera buffa. This term is especially applied to the flourishing 18th century style as used by Rossini. Characterised by the use of castrato singers, heroic or mythological plots, Italian libretti and formality in the music and action.
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| 100623. |
Music Term: - A stage work giving more or less equal importance to opera and ballet (e.g. the works of Lully and Rameau in France in the 17th and 18th centuries).
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| 100624. |
Music Term: - A stage work involving elements of both opera and oratorio (e.g. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex).
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| 100625. |
Music Term: (It., 'little opera') - A term applied in the l9th century to lighter styles of opera involving dialogue. Composers included Offenbach, Johann Strauss and Sullivan. This style is sometimes referred to as light opera.
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| 100626. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - Operetta.
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| 100627. |
Music Term: - A musical composition (originating around 1600) consisting of an extended setting of a religious or epic text for chorus, soloists and orchestra for performance in a church or concert hall, although originally oratorios involved scenery, costumes and action. An example is Handel's Messiah of 1742.
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| 100628. |
Music Term: - A large body of instrumentalists which has developed historically. The first orchestras were variable, but by the baroque period they consisted of strings, oboes and bassoons with other solo instruments. Standardisation took place in the classical period when the orchestra was divided into four sections: strings, woodwind (two flutes, two oboes, two bassoons and clarinets), brass (two horns and two trumpets) and percussion consisting of two kettledrums. The orchestra was greatly expanded in the 19th century to include the harp and other percussion. Some 20th century composers began writing for smaller ensembles (perhaps mainly because of economics).
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| 100629. |
Music Term: - (1) The art of writing for an orchestra, band, etc., involving great knowledge of tone colours, range of instruments, technical capacities and combinations of instruments, etc. (2) The scoring of a work, originally intended for another medium, for an orchestra.
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| 100630. |
Music Term: - A medieval type of part-writing based on plainsong and harmonised by either one, two or three parallel parts.
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| 100631. |
Music Term: - Also called graccs or embellishments, these are notes considered to be an extra embellishment of a melody which are either added spontaneously by the performer or indicated by the composer on the score by signs or notation. In the 17th and 18th centuries, omaments were mostly indicated by signs and they included the trill, mordent, turn, arpeggio and appoggiatura. Composers wrote out ornaments in full in later periods.
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| 100632. |
Music Term: (It.) - Or. Indicates an alternative passage (usually a simpler version) in a composition.
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| 100633. |
Music Term: (It., 'obstinate') - A persistently repeated musical figure or rhythm. A basso ostinato or ground bass has this feature in the bass part. otez (Fr.) - Take off. Otez Ies sourdines, take off the mutes.
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| 100634. |
Music Term: (It.) - Octave. Often written 8ve. All'ottava, at the octave and ottava bassa, an octave lower.
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| 100635. |
Music Term: - Any notes of the harmonic series are given this name except for the first fundamental.
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| 100636. |
Music Term: - (1) An orchestral piece preceding an opera, oratorio or play; (2) Since Mendelssohn's Hebrides of 1832, the overture also describes a one movement orchestral piece composed for the concert hall with a non-musical subject. This is also called the concert overture; (3) In the 17th and 18th centuries the French overture (preceding an opera, etc.) was in three movements, slow-quick-slow, and the Italian overture (a precursor of the symphony) also in three movements was quick-slow-quick.
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| 100637. |
Music Term: - Abbreviaion for piano (It.), soft. Varying degrees of increasing softness are abbreviated as pp, ppp, etc.
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| 100638. |
Music Term: - (1) Traditionally a play in mime; (2) Nowadays it is a Christmas stage entertainment based on a fairy tale or other traditional source with dialogue, popular songs, costumes and actions (e.g. Snow White).
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| 100639. |
Music Term: - Schonberg preferred this term to atonality (e.g. music not written in any definite key).
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| 100640. |
Music Term: - The movement of two or more parts in the same direction while also keeping the same interval between them.
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| 100641. |
Music Term: (Lat. missa parodia) - A polyphonic mass (e.g. by Palestrina) flourishing in the 16th century based on existing material of a motet or chanson. This term has only been used since the 19th century, however.
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| 100642. |
Music Term: - The music of a particular voice or instrument in an ensemble.
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| 100643. |
Music Term: (It.) - Voice-part.
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| 100644. |
Music Term: - The tones of the harmonic series, the lowest being thefirst partial and the others the upper partials or overtones.
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| 100645. |
Music Term: (It.) - A suite. This term was much used in the 18th century. In the 17th century, however, a partita was a variation.
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| 100646. |
Music Term: - Generally a strophic song for several male, female or mixed voices in which there are many singers to a part, with the top part usually having the principal part. Composers include Elgar, Parry and Stanford.
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| 100647. |
Music Term: - The composing of polyphonic music and the writing of equally good melodic parts.
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| 100648. |
Music Term: (Fr ) - Step. A pas d 'action is a ballet scene of dramatic nature and a pas de deux is a dance for two.
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| 100649. |
Music Term: (Sp., 'double step') or paso doble - A modern and quick Spanish dance in 2 / 4 time.
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| 100650. |
Music Term: - Originally a slow and stately dance appearing in keyboard music of the 17th century. Later the passacaglia was a piece with a theme continually repeated, but not necessarily in the bass, like the chaconne.
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| 100651. |
Music Term: - A section of a composition, usually with no structural importance.
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| 100652. |
Music Term: - A note, which may be accented or unaccented, forming a discord with the chord with which it is heard, but is melodically placed between two consonant notes.
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| 100653. |
Music Term: - This is the Passion of Christ, as accounted by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, set to music and properly performed during Holy Week.
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Music Term: (It., 'pie') - An operatic work with the material drawn from the works of various composers, especially popular in the 18th century.
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| 100655. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - A piece composed deliberately in the style of another well- known composer. See also pasticcio above.
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| 100656. |
Music Term: - (I) Alternative name for the madrigal; (2) Any piece representing country life.
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Music Term: (It.) - (I) An instrumental movement with long bass notes giving a drone-like effect in 6 / 8 or 12 / 8 time; (2) Obsolete term for a stage entertainment based on a legendary or rustic subject.
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| 100658. |
Music Term: - Popular in opera, this is a comic song in which words, sung as fast as possible, are often tongue-twisters. Often found in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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| 100659. |
Music Term: (It.) - A rest (not a pause).
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Music Term: - A wait of indefinite length on a note or rest.
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Music Term: (Eng.) or pavane (Fr.) - A slow, stately dance usually in duple time dating from the 16th century. It was normally followed by the quicker galliard after about 1550, often employing the same theme.
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| 100662. |
Music Term: - The fudamental or lowest note of the harmonic series especially applied to the playing of brass instruments.
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| 100663. |
Music Term: - A note, usually in the bass, which is held below changing harmonies above, with which it may be discordant.
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| 100664. |
Music Term: - A five note scale, the commonest being without minor seconds (e.g. CDEGA-C...).
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Music Term: (It.) - By, through, for (e.g. per archi, for strings).
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| 100666. |
Music Term: (It., 'losing itself') - Gradually dying away.
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| 100667. |
Music Term: - A cadence with the chord progression consisting of the dominant (chord V) to the tonic (chord I) which has a 'complete' sound.
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| 100668. |
Music Term: - These are the intervals of the octave, fourth and fifth.
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| 100669. |
Music Term: - A sense of pitch which enables a person to identify a note simply by hearing it.
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| 100670. |
Music Term: - In medieval music, this was triple time.
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| 100671. |
Music Term: - Popularly known as a round, this is a never-ending canon which is also known as an infinite canon.
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| 100672. |
Music Term: (Lat., 'perpetually in motion') - A fast piece of music in which a rapid repetitive note-pattern is played throughout.
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| 100673. |
Music Term: (It.) - Heavy, ponderous.
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| 100674. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - Little .
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| 100675. |
Music Term: (It., 'chest') - In musical contexts used as in voci di petto, chest voice.
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Music Term: (Ger.) - Fantasy.
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Music Term: - A group of notes forming a unit of a melody. To phrase a melody is to observe and mark the divisions of a melody into units or phrases .
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| 100678. |
Music Term: - A cadence which ends on the dominant of the relative minor.
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Music Term: - The mode which, on the white keys of the piano, is represented by E to E.
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| 100680. |
Music Term: (It.) - At pleasure (e.g. not at any strict speed).
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| 100681. |
Music Term: (It.) - Pleasantly.
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| 100682. |
Music Term: (It.) - Plaintively.
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Music Term: (It.) - Very soft, with abbreviation pp.
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| 100684. |
Music Term: (It.) - (1) Soft, abbreviation p; (2) Standard abbreviation in French and English for pianoforte.
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| 100685. |
Music Term: - (It)soft and loud, abrrev. is piano.
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| 100686. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - The surprising sound of a major third at the end of a piece otherwise in a minor key thus converting the expected minor chord to a major one. This was a common device up to the mid-18th century .
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| 100687. |
Music Term: - (It.) - More. Piu lento, slower.
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| 100688. |
Music Term: (It.) - Somewhat, rather.
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| 100689. |
Music Term: - Abbreviation of pizzicato.
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| 100690. |
Music Term: (It.) - Indication to pluck notes on a bowed string instrument. Abbreviation pizz.
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| 100691. |
Music Term: - A closing cadence consisting of a progression of the subdominant (chord IV) to the tonic (Chord I) sounding like 'Amen'.
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| 100692. |
Music Term: (from Lat. cantus planus) - Medieval church music usually describing the gregorian chant which still survives today in the Roman Catholic church. It consists of a single, unaccompanied vocal line in free rhythm like speech with no regular bar lengths.
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| 100693. |
Music Term: (Gk ., ' breath ' ) - A type of florid passage in plainsong sung to a single vowel.
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| 100694. |
Music Term: (It.) - Very slightly, very little. Diminutive of poco.
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| 100695. |
Music Term: (It. ) - Very slightly. Superlative of poco.
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Music Term: (It.) - Slightly, little, rather. Poco crescendo, getting slightly louder. poco a poco, little by little.
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| 100697. |
Music Term: (It.) - Then. In the phrase scherzo da capo, e poi la coda it means repeat the scherzo and then go on to the coda.
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| 100698. |
Music Term: (Fr.) - Point of the bow.
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| 100699. |
Music Term: - Term taken from painting (referring to pictures using separate dots of colour) and applied to the music of some 20th century composers (e.g. Webern). This described music of a spare and pointed style emplying use of pizzicato.
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Music Term: (It.) - See polonaise.
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