LC Music Gerald Barry Key Terms

A (a)   technique is something that a composer uses in his work to achieve a particular style.

Imitation at a fixed distance.

• Retrograde

• Inversion

• Canon

• Augmentation

(a)   is when the composer rewrites a melody in reverse.

Gerald Barry uses Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór in an interesting way. Name the technique he uses.

(a)  

Pick the two techniques that apply to lengthening and shortening note values.

• Inversion

• Retrograde

• Augmentation

• Diminution

A compositional technique where the composer takes the first and last notes of each section to create a new section

(a)  

Which term is used to ask the performers to play without vibrato?

• Molto vibrato

• Senza vibrato

• Vibrato

• Con sordini

An instruction given to string performers to use a separate movement of the bow for each note.

(a)  

Flautando

• To play across the bridge

• To play with force

• Do not stop the string

• Play an octave higher

Two terms that describe the compositional techniques of making intervals wider and narrower.

• Detaché

• Splicing

• Wedging

• Diminution