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| Classical Music | European music of the Classical period composed from about 1725-1810 |
| Concerto | a composition usually written in 3 sections or movements featuring the interplay between one or more soloists and an orchestra |
| Culture | the customs, ideas, tastes, and beliefs acquired from a person's backround;sum of ones lifestyle |
| homophony | a single melody with chordal accompianment |
| jazz | an african-american invention, is a popular style of music that developed in New Orleans during the late 1800's and early 1900's |
| Jitterbug | the term jitters referring to the fast acrobatic movements that accompianed swing music |
| Musical style | the distant manner or character of musical expression |
| perceptive listening | the ability to descern musical characteristices and describe |
| Audiation | the ability to imagine or hear in our head the sound of a melody, a rhythm, various, musical timbres |
| bel canto | b style characterized by lyrical and flowing phrases, beauty of vocal color and brillian technique |
| Crescendo | a gradual incease in the loudness of sound (<) |
| diminuendo | a gradual decrease in the loudness of sound(>) |
| phrase | a series of pitches that make sense |
| vocal range | the highest and lowest pitches you can SING |
| vocal register | how low or high someone SPEAKS |
| Rhythm | the length or duration of musical sound |
| Aerophones | instruments that produce sound by a VIBRATING COLOUMN OF AIR |
| Authenticity | performing music as nearly as possible in the way it was performed in the time it was written |
| Chordophones | instruments that create sound by striking, rubbing, or plucking a taut string (or chord) |
| Electrophones | instruments that generate sound from electricity |
| Idiophones | simple solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken |
| Membranophones | instruments made by stiking or rubbing a skin or membrane streched across a resonating chamber |
| music critic | a person who judges the quality of a performance and the music |
