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Cards (11)

  • music for a while
    • baroque
    • oedipus
    • ground bass
    • ornamentation
    • ternary
    • a minor
    • word painting
    • no dynamic markings
    • 4/4
    • largo
    • imitation
  • samba em preludio
    • bossa nova
    • low female voice
    • B minor
    • homophonic
    • extended and complex chords
    • flamenco techniques
    • flattened 5ths
    • each phrase spans a 7th apart
    • rubato
    • 4/4
  • beethoven
    • classical - romantic
    • sonata
    • exposition, transition, development, recapitulation, coda
    • dominant preparation
    • chromatic chords
    • homophonic
    • extreme pitch range
    • virtuosic
    • c minor, Eb minor, G minor, F minor
    • pedal
    • hand crossing
    • 4/4 and 2/2
  • bach
    • concertino
    • ripieno
    • basso continuo
    • ternary
    • D major, B minor
    • polyphonic
    • fugal
    • 2/4 time but actually 6/8
    • stretto
    • gigue
    • subject
    • auxiliary and passing notes
  • star wars
    • homophonic
    • fanfare
    • piccolo solo
    • motifs
    • perfect 4 and 5 intervals
    • tutti
    • rebel blockade runner motif
    • linking pssages - scurrying strings
    • b flat major
    • quartal harmony
  • defying gravity
    • crescendos
    • free tempo in recitative (sing speak)
    • changes in tempo
    • melisma
    • wide vocal range
    • leaps
    • polyphonic outro
    • D major - modulates to B, F and G major and B minor
    • 3/2, 2/2, 4/4, 2/2
  • release
    • layering
    • loops
    • celtic - hurdy gurdy, uillean pipes, bodhran, fiddle
    • western - synthesisers, drum machine
    • african - kora, talking drum, griots
    • diatonic
    • c minor
    • syncopation
    • hexatonic - female voice, uillean pipes, whistle
    • pentatonic - bass, hurdy gurdy
  • killer queen
    • syllabic
    • falsetto
    • homophonic
    • imitation
    • ambiguous tonality: Eb major, C minor and chorus in Bb major
    • altered chords
    • guitar solo
    • portamento slide
    • wah wah on pussy cat and flanger on laser beam
    • 12/8
    • chordal homophony
    • anacrusis
  • baroque
    • 1600 - 1750
    • heavy on decoration
    • no dynamics
    • polyphonic
  • classical
    • 1750 - 1820
    • emphasis on balance
    • contrasting dynamics
    • mainly homophonic
  • romantic
    • 1820 - 1900
    • expressive
    • intense emotions
    • extreme dynamics
    • chromaticism