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19 Cards in this Set
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Music without extra- Musical or Programmatic associations
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Absolute Music
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a Term describing music that draws on the characteristic scale degrees of moth major and minor modes on the same tonic
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Bi-modal
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The 2nd part of a 19th cent. double aria, with a faster tempo and requiring grerater virtuosity from the singer
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Cabaletta
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The 1st past of a 19th cent. double aria, normally shorter and simpler thatn the 2nd
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Cavatina
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Simultaneous use of conflicting rhythmic patterns or accents
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cross-rhythm
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Unifying the movements of a large-scale composition by recurrent use of the same theme a characteristic Romantic device
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Cyclic principle
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a machanism in the piano that holds the hammer ata cetain height after it has struck the key, while the key returns to position
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Double-escapememnt
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differs from the fully diminished 7th chord in that its 7th is minor
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half-diminished seventh-chord
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a theme or motive that represents a character, emotion, idea, or even object, usually short and symbolic
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leitmotif
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name for a mumber of polish dances in triple meter with tempi ranging from slow to fast
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mazurka
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term employed in reference to the rise of East-European mational music in 19th-20th cent. Use of folklike music rhythms and melodies
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Nationalism
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a Lyrical piece for piano, Chopin best known
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Nocturne
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an arrangement whereby the bass strings of the piano cross the other strings
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overstringing
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Style of delivering recitative rapidly with the approx. of speech, features many repeated pitches
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Parlando
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A festive Polish dance in moderate triple meter, Chopin
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Polonaise
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flexible treatment of tempo in which either the melody is allowed freedom over a steady accompaniment, or the entire texture moves faster or slower at the player's descretion
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rubato
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considerable variation of a recurring theme, especially of its mood and character, practiced by the prommatic composers of Romantic Period
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Thematic transformation
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when the root of adjacent chords a re a third a part
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third relationship
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realism, a movement in late 19th and early 20th cent. opera, cooresponding to a contemporaneous trend towards literary realism
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Verismo
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