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Compositions traditionally intended for performance in a private room
Chamber Music
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A composition for an orchestra and one or more solo instruments
Concerto
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A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples
Minuet and trio
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A mass for a deceased person
Requiem
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A musical composition built on the alternation of a principal recurring theme and contrasting episodes
Rondo
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A lively movement, commonly in 3/4 time, introduced as a replacement for a minuet in pieces with multiple movements
Scherzo
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A composition for one or more solo instruments
Sonata
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A form movement consisting of three sections : the exposition, development, and recapitulation
Sonata Form
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An ensemble of four musicians: two violins, one viola, and one cello
String quartet
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An extended piece in three or more movements for an orchestra
Symphony
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Instrumental music that is free of any explicit verbal reference or program
Absolute Music
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A lyric song intended to be sung in recital, accompanied by piano
Art Song
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Harmony which uses notes which do not belong to the key the music is in
Chromatic Harmony
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Rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands
Exoticism
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A melodic passage or phrase associated with a specific character, situation, or element
Leitmotif
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An instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood, especially one for the piano
Nocturne
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Musical compositions intended to depict nonmusical incidents
Program Music
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Rhythmic flexibility within a phrase or measure
Rubato
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An orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales
Tone poem
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The process of modifying a theme so that in a new context it is different but the same elements
Thematic Transformation
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Music in which some element of composition is left to chance
Aleatory
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The absence of a tonal center and of harmonies derived from a diatonic scale corresponding to such a center
Atonality
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A movement that emphasized the subjective expression of the artists inner experience
Expressionism
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Vague harmony and rhythm evoke a mood, place and natural phenomena
Impresionism
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A type of music based on simple elements and avoiding elaboration
Minimalism
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Music that avoided the emotionalism of late romantic music by revving the use of counterpoint
Neoclassicalism
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The use or an instance of simultaneous contrasting rhythms
Polyrhythm
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Simultaneous use of two or more tonalities
Polytonality
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A dissonant group of closely spaced notes played at the same time
Tone Cluster
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Musical technique that involves distributing a musical line to several instruments
Tone Color Melody
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A type of ear trumpet used by the deaf
Aerophone
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Any musical instrument producing sound through the vibration of strings
Chordophone
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A percussion instrument made of natural sonorous material
Idiophone
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A japanese instrument
Koto
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A musical percussion instrument, usually consists of hollow cylinder
Membranophone
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Melodic type of Hindu music
Raga
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A stringed instrument of india
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A small hand drum of northern india
Tabla
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Term used in india for the rhythmic pattern of any composition
Tala
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Long necked, plucked lute
Tambura
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Jazz with a melancholy sound
Blues
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Cool Jazz
Jazz characterized by rhythmic and emotional restraint, extensive passages, and a reflective charcter
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Relatively fast two-beat rhythm and group and solo improvisations
Dixieland
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Riff
A short rhythmic phrase, repeated in improvisations
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The singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the slung and tries to sound like a musical instrument
Scat Singing
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Master of counterpoint
Bach
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Went completely deaf
Beethoven
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Czech composer; New World
Dvorak
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Renaissance composer
Gabrieli
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First great opera
Monteverdi
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English composer; ground base
Purcell
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Over 600 art songs
Schubert
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Schumann
Committed himself to an insane asylum
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Most famous Russian conposer
Tchaikovsky
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