Music Appreciation

Lori E.
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  1. baroque
    relating to an elaborately ornamented style of art and music
  2. chamber music
    serious music performed by a small group of musicians
  3. classical
    of the most highly developed stage of an early civilization
  4. gothic
    characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
  5. Gregorian chant
    a liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church
  6. harmony
    compatibility in opinion and action
  7. mass
    the property of a body that causes it to have weight
  8. opera
    a drama set to music
  9. opus
    a musical work that has been created
  10. overture
    orchestral music at the beginning of an opera or musical
  11. patron
    someone who supports or champions something
  12. requiem
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  13. sacred
    made, declared, or believed to be holy
  14. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  15. sonata
    a musical composition of movements of contrasting forms
  16. string quartet
    an instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello
  17. symphony
    a long and complex sonata for an orchestra
Created on Thu Dec 01 16:39:28 EST 2011

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