WorksheetsMockingbirds
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
Percussion instruments consisting of small wooden clappers that are struck together
Chordophone
Caxixi
Celesta
Castanets
Collage: A multimovement work for solo singers, chorus, and orchestra act to a religious text
True
False
The last part of a piece, usually added to a standard form to bring it to a close
Codetta
A Tempo
Coda
Aria
Allemande
A newly composed movement that did not fit any dance category
German dance in moderate duple meter, popular during Renaissance and Baroque
A dance form featuring a staged presentation of group or solo dancing
Afro-Cuban dance performed at Latin American Carnival celebrations
Col Legno
Resting place in a musical phrase; musical punctuation
A musical gathering where hymns, spirituals, and folk songs were sung
String instrument technique where strings are hit with the wood of the bow
Agitated or restless
