![]() ![]() ![]() Impromptu: a short instrumental piece of a free, casual nature suggesting improvisation. Gloria: second item of the Ordinary of the Mass. Gigue (jig): a quick, springy dance often used as the concluding movement to 18th century instrumental suites. Galliard: a lively court dance of Italian origin, usually in triple time. Music Cataloging at Yale ♪ General music cataloging resourcesĪir/ayre: (1) an English song or melody from the 16th to the 19th century (2) a 16th-century solo song with lute accompanied.Īleatory music: music in which chance or indeterminacy are compositional elements.Īnthem: a choral setting (often with solo voice parts and organ accompaniment) of an English language religious or moral text, usually for performance during Protestant services.Īntiphon: a liturgical chant sung as the response to the verses of a psalm.Īrabesque: a short piece of music featuring various melodic, contrapuntal, or harmonic decorations.īagatelle: a short, light instrumental piece of music of no specified form, usually for piano.īallade: (1) a 14th-15th-century French song form which set poetry to music (2) an instrumental (usually piano) piece with dramatic narrative qualities.īarcarolle: song or instrumental piece in a swaying 6/8 time (i.e., suggesting the lilting motion of a Venetian gondola).īerceuse: a soft instrumental piece or lullaby, usually in a moderate 6/8 tempo a lullaby.Ĭanon: a contrapuntal form in two or more (voice or instrumental) parts in which the melody is introduced by one part and then repeated by the next before each previous part has finished (i.e., such that overlapping of parts occurs).Ĭantata: term applied to a 17th-18th- century multi-movement non-theatrical and non-liturgical vocal genre subsequently used to describe large-scale vocal works in the same spirit, generally for soloists, chorus and orchestra may also be for solo voice and accompaniment.Ĭanzona: (1) 16th-17th-century instrumental genre in the manner of a French polyphonic chanson, characterized by the juxtaposition of short contrasting sections (2) term applied to any of several types of secular vocal music.Ĭaprice/capriccio: term describing a variety of short composition types characterized by lightness, fancy, or improvisational manner.Ĭarol: since the 19th century, generally a song that is in four-part harmony, simple form, and having to do with the Virgin Mary or Christmas.Ĭhaconne: a slow, stately instrumental work in duple meter employing variations.Ĭhanson: French for song in particular, a style of 14th- to 16th-century French song for voice or voices, often with instrumental accompaniment.Ĭhant/plainchant: monophonic music used in Christian liturgical services sung in unison and in a free rhythm.Ĭoncertante: (1) a term used to modify another form or genre, suggesting that all parts should be regarded as equal in status (18th century) or indicating a virtuoso first violin part (19th century) (2) a work with solo parts in the nature of, but not the form of, a concerto.Ĭoncerto: (1) ensemble music for voice(s) and instrument(s) (17th century) (2) extended piece of music in which a solo instrument or instruments is contrasted with an orchestral ensemble (post-17th century).Ĭoncerto grosso: orchestral form especially popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in which the contrasting lines of a smaller and a larger group of instruments are featured.Ĭredo: third item of the Ordinary of the Mass.ĭivertimento/divertissement: a style of light, often occasion-specific, instrumental music arranged in several movements.Įtude/study: especially, a piece written for purposes of practicing or displaying technique.įancy/fantasia/fantasie/fantasy/phantasie: an instrumental piece in which the formal and stylistic characteristics may vary from free, improvisatory types to strictly contrapuntal form is of secondary importance.įugue: contrapuntal form in which a subject theme ("part" or "voice") is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations.
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