Listeners Guide to Musical Understanding |
Common terms and phrases
accents accompaniment Adagio Allegro Alto Andante aria ballet bands baroque bass bassoon beat Beethoven binary Brahms brass brass instruments canon cello century chamber music chorale chords Chorus clarinet classic coda combined complete cadence composers compositions Concerto dance drama drum elements example FIGURE flute folk music fugue Handel harmony Haydn homophonic horn instruments J. S. BACH jazz keyboard listening lyric madrigal measures melody ment minor minuet movement musicians notation notes oboe opera orchestra organization Overture pattern percussion percussion instruments performance phrase piano piece pitch played players polyphonic popular Prelude program music repeated rhythm rhythmic ritornello romantic rondo form Rondo theme Saxophone Scherzo score sentence singing solo sonata form songs soprano sound string quartet style Suite Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY tempo tenor ternary form texture tion tonality tone tonic key traditional trio trombone trumpets tuba usually variations viola violin vocal voice W. A. MOZART waltz woodwind