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chamber music
serious music performed by a small group of musicians
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opera
a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
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cantata, oratorio
a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text
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concerto
a composition for orchestra and a soloist
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fugue
a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
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rondeau, rondo
a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
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sonata
a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
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bouffe, comic opera, opera bouffe, opera comique
opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
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grand opera
opera in which all the text is sung
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musical drama
opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
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concerto grosso
a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments
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piano sonata
a sonata for piano
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sonatina
a short and simple sonata
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symphonic music, symphony
a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra
