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morality play
Music; General music
Medieval drama, often with music, intended to teach proper values.
trio sonata
Music; General music
Baroque chamber sonata type written in three parts: two melody lines and the basso continuo; requires a total of four players to perform.
form
Music; General music
The structure or shape of a musical work, based on repetition, contrast and variation; the organizing principle in music. Binary and ternary are basic forms, while more complex forms include ...
rosin
Music; General music
Substance made from hardened tree sap, rubbed on the hair of a bow to help it grip the strings.
castrato
Music; General music
Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register, prominent in seventeenth and early eighteenth century opera.
motet
Music; General music
Polyphonic vocal genre, secular in the Middle Ages but sacred or devotional thereafter.
whole-tone scale
Music; General music
Scale pattern built entirely of whole step intervals, common in the music of the French Impressionists.
