Mockingbirds

Cadence

• Resting place in a musical phrase; musical punctuation

• Virtuosic solo passage in the manner of an improvisation

• Songful, in a singing style

• Texture comprised of chords in which the pitches sound simultaneously

Absolute Music

• Music produced without electronics, especially amplifiers

• Music that emphasizes atmosphere rather than clear melodies or forms

• Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial programs

• Music that makes a deliberate use of indeterminacy in its performance

Climax: High point in a melodic line or piece of music, usually representing the peak of intensity, range, and dynamics

• True

• False

Caxixi: Metal balls that are rolled in one hand, designed to improve motor skills; they produce a jingling sound

• True

• False

Augmentation

• Texture comprised of chords in which the pitches sound simultaneously

• Statement of a melody in longer note values

• High point in a melodic line or piece of music

• Meter in which each main beat is divided into three rather than two

Camerata: French monophonic or polyphonic song, set to either courtly or popular poetry

• True

• False

Cantus Firmus

• "Fixed melody", usually of very long notes

• Performance style with a singing leader who is repeated by followers

• The "old art" of twelfth- and thirteenth-century French polyphony

Ars Antiqua

• Return to the previous tempo

• "New art", the refined, complex style of polyphony in 14th-century France

• The "old art" of twelfth- and thirteenth-century French polyphony

Ballad Opera

• French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

• English comic opera; also dialogue opera

• The last musical section of the Ordinary of the Mass.

Alleluia

• An item from the Proper of the Mass sung before the reading of the Gospel

• Neumatic in style with a long melisma on the last syllable