western europe music – Flashcards
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opera
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an elaborated staged work in which the character sings all their lines
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symphony ochestra
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ensemble of fifty or more players reading from notated music
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broadside
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kind of musical newspaper sold by the street singer
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alphorn
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large buzzed-lip horns of wood; places set of pitches known as the harmonic series
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counterpoint
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creating independent melodies that nevertheless work together to control consonance and dissonance
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triads
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standard three-pitch vertical music structure in European music
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ballad
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popular strophic form song of four-line stanzas that correspond to regular musical phrases
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vocables
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sung syllable without linguistic meaning
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lederhosenmusik
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old fashioned popular folk music named for the traditional dress musicians put on for tourists
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landler
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triple-meter couple dance that moves faster than a waltz
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hackbrett
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instrument in which the strings are struck with hammers
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key change or modulation
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when all pitches in a song shift up by a fixed amount
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diskantzither
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an Austrian zither that has melody strings over a fretted fingerboard
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major or minor
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two main types of diatonic modes
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keening
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oldest form of nonpulsatile singing
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medley
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three of so dances usually strung together, one immediately after the other
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slip jig
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step dance that has a distinctive compound triple meter
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cultural importance of the Irish harp
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the Irish harp is the national symbol of Ireland and only country to make an instrument their national symbol
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fonn and casadh
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2 sections of Bean An Fhir Rual (Red-Haired Woman)
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reel
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simple duple meter dance that is the most common of Irish dance forms
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accordian
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concertina is the English version of this musical instrument in Ireland
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sean nos
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unaccompanied, typically nonpulsatile singing originally known as keening
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bard
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a person who was a combination poet, composer, and musician
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slide
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a faster tempo jig
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cante hondo
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most traditional category of "deep songs" of the Andalucian region
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how the soleo is performed
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danced by a woman and sung by a man
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opressed underclass from southern spain
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who are gypsies are where do they live?
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used as accompaniment for flamenco dances
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how did the guitar become Spain's national instrument?
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zaruzelas
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typical Spanish opera
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palmas
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handclapping that accompanies flamenco, and is a critical source of complicated rythyms
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golpe
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rapping one's fingers on the body of a guitar as a technique of flamenco
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rasugueado
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unfolding the fingers as one's wrist moves across the strings of a guitat
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estribillos
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binary form found in many Spanish folk songs is typically identified by its stanzas
