Introduction to Music: A Guide to Good Listening |
Common terms and phrases
Bach ballet suite Baroque Bartók bass Beethoven Bizet Boléro Brahms canon Cantata cappella choir Carmen opera cello century Chapter Chopin chorale prelude chord chorus Clarinet composer composition contrast Copland D Major Debussy E Minor ensemble Fantasy Faune Prelude Flat Major Flat Minor Flute Fugue G Major G Minor Handel harmony harpsichord Haydn Hindemith instruments l'Après-midi d'un Faune Liszt Major for Piano Major for Violin Major strings Masterpieces of Music medium melody Mendelssohn Messiah oratorio meter Milhaud motet movement Mozart Music before 1750 music literature Nutcracker Suite Nutcracker Suite orchestra orchestra Overture Passacaglia percussion phrase piano Piano and Orchestra polyphonic Prélude à l'Après-midi program music Prokofiev Quintet Ravel Recommended Listening Requiem Rhapsody rhythm rondo Saint-Saëns Schubert Schumann Sibelius solo Sonata song cycle Stravinsky String Quartet structure style symphonic poem Symphony Tchaikovsky tempo texture theme Toccata tonal tone Trio Variations Violin Violin and Orchestra vocal voice Wagner Waltz