what to listen to in music
Acopal
all voice no instrument
Octave
interval between two notes eight diatonic pitches apart the lower note vibrates half as fast as the upper and sounds an octave lower
Chorus
large group of singer performing together jazz
Opera
large scale music drum
Basso continuo
latlian for conutinous bass also refers to a performance group with a chordal instrument on bass moeldy
Da capo aria
lyric song in ternary or ABA form commonly found in opera cantatas and oratorios
Gregorian chant
melody with free flowing unmeasured vocal line liturgical chan of the roman catholic church also plainchant or plainsong
Troubador
musican
Orchestra
performing group of diverse instruments in various cultures in western art music and ensemble of multiple strings with various woodwind brass and perussion instrument
Homophony (homophonic texture)
texture with a principal melody and accompanying harmony as distinct from polyphony
Hildegard of Bingen
the 11th cenuntry spitual and health music church type is was from Germany
Texture
the interweaving of melodic horizontal and harmonic vertical elements in the musical fabric
Timbre
the quality of a sound that distinguish one voice or instruments from another also ton color
Tempo
the rate of speed or pace of music
Josquin des Prez
1450/1455 - 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French composer of the Renaissance.
Baroque era
1600-1750
Figured bass
Baroque practice consisting of an independent bass line that often includes numerals incating the harmony to be supplied by the performer also through-bass
Organum
Earliest kind of polyphonic music which developed from the custom of adding voice above a plainchant they first ran parallel to the chant at the interval of fifth or fourth and later moved freely
Chanson
French monophonic or polyphonic song especially of the middle age and renaissance set to either country or poplar poetry
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet in the 14 century and also a composer.
Oratorio
Large scale dramatic genere originating in the baroque based on regious text or serious character
Major scale
Middle c note
Motet
Polyphonic vocal genre often secular in the middle age but sacred or devotional thereafter
Beat
Regular pulsation a basic unit of length in musical time.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.
Scale
Series of pitches in ascending or descending order comparising the notes of key C major
Libretto
Text or script of an opera oratorio cantata or musical also called the book of music
variation
The compositional procedure of altering a preexisting musical idea. see also theme and variations
Tonic
The first note of the scale
Phrase
a musical unit, often a component of a melody very soft
Ground bass
a repeating melody usually in the bass throughout the vocal instrument composition
Mass (Ordinary and Proper)
central service of roman catholic church
Dissonance
combination of tones that sound discordant and unstable in need of resolution.
Consonance
concordant or harmonious combination of pitches that provides a sense of relaxations and stability in music
Chorale
congresgational hymm of the german Lutheran church
Dynamics
element of musical expression relating to the degree of loudness or softness or volume of a sound
Melody
flow of different notes, succession of single pitches perceived by the ear as a unity
Repetition
repeat of something
Cadence
resting place in a musical phrase, musical punctuation.
Meter
rhythm in time the grouping of beats into larger regular patterns notated as measure
Minor scale
same not as major but sixth note
Chord
simultaneous combination of three or more pitches that constitute a single block of harmony
Monody
singer with a company
Monophony (monophonic texture)
single line texture or melody without accompaniment
Recitative
solo vocal declamination that follows the inflections of text often resulting in a disjuct vocal style
aria
solo voice oin orchestral generally displaying a lot of emotion found in opera cantata and oratorio
contrast
the use of opposing musical elements to emphasize difference and variety
Polyphony (polyphonic texture)
two or more melodic lines combined into multivoiced texture as distinct from nonophonic
Harmony
two or more notes that sing good together
Cantata (sacred and secular)
vocal genre for solo singers chorus and instrumentalist based on lyric or dramatic poetic narrative it generally consist of several momovent including recitatives arias and ensemble numbers