Listeners Guide to Musical Understanding |
Common terms and phrases
accents accompaniment Adagio Allegro Andante aria ballet bands baroque bass bassoon beat Beethoven binary Brahms brass brass instruments cadence cantatas cello century chamber music chorale chords Chorus clarinet classic coda combined composers compositions concerto contemporary dance Debussy elements example figure flute folk music fugue Handel harmony Haydn homophonic horn instruments J. S. BACH jazz listening lyric madrigal measures medium melody ment minor minuet modern movement music dramas musicians oboe opera orchestra ORLANDUS LASSUS Overture pattern percussion performance period phrase piano piece pitch played players poem polyphonic popular music Prelude program music Recitative rhythm rhythmic ritornello ROBERT SCHUMANN romantic Rondo theme Scherzo score sentence singing solo sonata form songs soprano sound Stravinsky string quartet structure style Suite Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY tempo Tenor ternary form texture tion tonality tone tonic key traditional trombones typical usually variations viola violin vocal voice W. A. MOZART waltz woodwind