MUSC 201

A brief musical statement

Monophonic vocal music in the medieval church designed to project religious texts

A musical texture consisting of multiple lines of equal importance

A style of singing that lies somewhere between lyrical song and speech; also, the operatic number that is sung in this style

A wind instrument widely used until ca. 1750, similar to a flute but blown into from one end rather than from the side

The range of a pitch or series of pitches, usually described as high, middle, or low

A type of plainchant in which a soloist's passage is followed by a response from the chorus

Italian for "little return"; name for the statement and return of the full ensemble, in a work alternating between the orchestra and soloist or soloists

The ordering of music through time

The formal design of alternating ritornello and solo sections