Music Vocab Flashcard 8

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A composition style with one melody and rhythmically unified voices and accompaniments.

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Homophonic

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Distance between two pitches

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Interval

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To perform jubilantly

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Jubiloso

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Performing in a mournful manner

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Lamentoso

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Major seventh of a scale, a semitone below the tonic, leading toward it.

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Leading tone

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Smooth, connected, graceful style

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Legato

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German song, often from the Romantic era

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Lied

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A short melodic, rhythmic, or harmonic pattern repeated in a composition.

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Ostinato

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A composition style with multiple voices, each having its own melody, creating a rich sound texture.

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Polyphonic

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Technique of sliding between two pitches without defining intermediate notes.

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Portamento